Quick question about path substitution

[Jack Burton 98]

I want to give it a go, just wondering about paths. So in the "From" example (Example: D:\Movies (on the server)), it's pretty straight forward. My question is regarding the "To" example (Example: \\MyServer\Movies (a path clients can access)). Is the "MyServer" line a default, or do I have to find my specific path? In my folder sharing properties, I have a network path of \\NameOfPC\y for one drive. Is this what I use?

 

Thanx for taking the time   

[swhitmore 781]

For a UNC path, after the \\ is the computer name or IP address followed by a \ and then the shared folder.

Edited July 6, 2016 by swhitmore

[Jack Burton 98]

Perfect thanx, I'll give it a try

[ebr 16187]

It will depend on your environment.  You need to enter whatever path would be accessible to the client device.

[swhitmore 781]

If you need an example, mine looks like this:

[Jack Burton 98]

If you need an example, mine looks like this:

I feel like I'm missing something simple. In your path \\SERVER\Videos, where did you get "SERVER" from? Is it just a default or is it a specific title you've specified somewhere? There's no drive letters in the substituted path so I guess I'm not understanding how the link is made. I've got 3 drives, each with a TV folder and a movie folder. Aside from the drive letters, the paths are the same on the drives (Z:\Media\Movies\Movies, Y:\Media\TV\TV, etc). I think I get that the path substitution basically points different folders to one and pulls them together, is that right? So for each movie folder, would I do all 3 movie folders on drives Z, Y, and X to the same substitution?

[Happy2Play 9783]

I feel like I'm missing something simple. In your path \\SERVER\Videos, where did you get "SERVER" from? Is it just a default or is it a specific title you've specified somewhere? There's no drive letters in the substituted path so I guess I'm not understanding how the link is made. I've got 3 drives, each with a TV folder and a movie folder. Aside from the drive letters, the paths are the same on the drives (Z:\Media\Movies\Movies, Y:\Media\TV\TV, etc). I think I get that the path substitution basically points different folders to one and pulls them together, is that right? So for each movie folder, would I do all 3 movie folders on drives Z, Y, and X to the same substitution?

 

Does the wiki answer your question Path Substitution?

[swhitmore 781]

SERVER is my computer name that I gave to my computer in Windows. The folder I'm substituting TO is a shared folder in windows that uses a UNC path
 

I think I get that the path substitution basically points different folders to one and pulls them together, is that right? So for each movie folder, would I do all 3 movie folders on drives Z, Y, and X to the same substitution?

Path substitution doesn't group folder. It changes the path that a client uses to access the file you're trying to play. You use this when your client is a different machine than your server, and needs a shared network path to access the files.

 

If you just want to group the drives together in 1 library, you can to this just by adding multiple folders in the library setup.

Edited July 7, 2016 by swhitmore

[Jack Burton 98]

Great, thanx for the help, I think I've got it. The "MyServer", "SERVER" stuff threw me off since  it sounds generic, like a default name. Like I said before, I have 3 drives with a TV and Movie folder in each (Movies 1 on Z:, Movies 2 on Y:, and Movies 3 on X:, etc). Basically the paths go Z:\Media\Movies\Movies 1, Y:\Media\Movies\Movies 2, etc. I originally only had the drives themselves shared, so I shared the Movie and TV folders individually, and in properties have a network path as \\Servername\Movies 1 for my Z drive movies folder. So now I need to do 6 path substitutions right? 1 for each Movie and TV folder? Sorry if I'm being a pain, just having trouble grasping this for some reason

[ebr 16187]

The path substitution is nothing more than a string replacement so you only need as many as you would to create the proper names.

 

For instance, if you had:

 

Z:\Media\Movies

Z:\Media\TV

 

Then a single path subsitution of "Z:\Media" -> "\\server\media" would handle both of those.

[Jack Burton 98]

The path substitution is nothing more than a string replacement so you only need as many as you would to create the proper names.

 

For instance, if you had:

 

Z:\Media\Movies

Z:\Media\TV

 

Then a single path subsitution of "Z:\Media" -> "\\server\media" would handle both of those.

Great, think I got it. Thanx a lot