[geeks] iTunes and network filesystems

[Michael Schiller]

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:22 AM, Kevin wrote:
> Has anyone here been able to tell iTunes to use a network
> share as the location for it's Library?

I haven't tried this yet, but it should work.

> I tried to make this work to no avail last weekend using OSX
> 10.2.3 and a Samba share.  Absolutely no luck.  You could see
> the mounted drive (where is the equivalent of /mnt under OSX?) when 
> you browse for a Library location under Preferences,
> and it could be selected but it does not recognize any media
> in that location nor will it save media downloaded via iTunes
> to that location.

The equivalent of /mnt is (sort of) /Volumes. Actually there are a few 
different places that OSX mounts volumes, depending on what kind of 
mount it is. The first question I would ask: Do you have read/write 
permissions on the remote machine? The next thing I would do, assuming 
you either do have write permissions, or do now :) would be to have 
iTunes store it's library in a different directory than you originally 
planned, and use iTunes to import the music that's in the other 
directory, letting it write the files itself. Or you can just move the 
existing files to another temporary directory, and then let iTunes put 
them back in the original dir.

-Mike
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