2 drives 1 sharename

[scottw]

Anybody know how to have 2 drives show all their data thru one folder???

I have c:\Movies and D:\Movies, I want to see all of the movies thru one sharename/folder.

Is this possible??

[wesblack]

Scott, what is the reason you want to do this ?





Wes Black \ Calrad

[S Pittaway]

i guess because it feels nicer ?

You cant easily merge the two folders together but you can mount the disks under another directory that is shared...


On my server i have a shared disk that is shared as Media (M:), This disk contains all of my movies, music, pictures etc.

The layout is like this -

M:\
|
|--Music
|
|--Pictures
|
|--Movies
| |
| | -- [Mount1]
| | |
| | Films...
| |
| | -- [Mount2]
| | |
| | Films...
| |
| | -- [Mount3]
| | |
| | Films...
| |
| | -- [Mount4]
| | |
| | Films...
| |
| | -- [Mount5]
| | |
| | Films...
| |
| | -- [Mount6]
| | |
| | Films...
| |

[Mount1] - [mount 6] are separate disks containing 1Tb - 1.5Tb each, In explorer they show has D: E: F: G: H: I:

Is this layout good enuff?


If so you can do it like this-

Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Storage - Disk Management (local) -
Right click on a disk,
selcect change drive letter and paths...
press add
mount in the following empty ntfs folder
select the dir you want


One benifit of this layout is that i only have to map a single share to get all of my media files (i have a BAT file that maps it to M: on all of my pcs).


Sean.

[scottw]

Sean,
That is kind of what I want to do, thats cool I didn't know you could do that.

Wes,
I use xAnt and have the pathname for the location of the movie stored in the URL field of Ant Movie Catalog. Now depending on which drive the movie was going to be on I would have c:\Movies\Movie.mkv or e:\Movie.mkv. I would like it just to be m:\Movie.mkv, with M having all of the movies listed from c:\movies\ and e:\. I have a script in Ant Movie Catalog that will automatically fill in the url field with the path (m:\) then the title of the movie and then add: .mkv to the end, so I do not have to manually type in the url each time I add a movie

Now this is actually for a friend since I use UNRAID and it uses sharenames which does exactly what I am trying to do in Windows.

Thanks,