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[Tueur]

Greetings,

I have had my DNS323 for a while and I have a number of questions which I haven't yet found an answer too. Ill put each one in a separate thread. So here we go...

I use my 323 as my main file storage location. My desktop and 323 are both connected to my router via CAT5 so My desktop holds literally my OS and Software. My laptops both have a wireless connection and I keep files on the laptop and sync them with the 323.

I want to add the folders on the 323 top my (Windows 7) desktop's document libraries. I cant do this as the locations aren't indexed which I believe is to do with the file system type (I believe that the DNS 323 uses a linux format not FAT32 or NTFS). Is it possible to index the file system on a 323 and add it too document libraries?

Thank you

[chriso]

You actually have your OS on the DNS-323?  I never went that far I just all my personal data on it.

You can not index because that requires the server to index in a form that Windows 7 will accept and as far as I know there is no such application that would do that on the DNS-323, but that doesn't mean you can't get your Documents and such folders on the DNS-323, you just have to fool Windows 7 as to where they are.

And note that if you actually have everything on the DNS-323 then "linking" might or might work for you, because in fact you would be doing a link on the DNS-323 (Linux) not on a Windows drive.  And of course to do linking on the DNS-323 itself you would have to have shell access and such.

So anyway here is my setup.
C:\Users\Chris is where my user account is and is a Windows drive.

And now say I want C:\Users\Chris\Documents to be at:
\\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents.

First all I log into a different account and copy all the files from C:\Users\Chris\Documents to \\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents.
next just I right click on the "Command Prompt" and select to run as administrator.
Now go to C:\Users\Chris and do:
move Documents  Documents.hold
Next:
mklink /D Documents \\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents

This creates a link from C:\Users\Chris\Documents to \\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents and basically from that point on programs that refer to C:\Users\Chris\Documents won't even know they are in fact talking to \\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents.

Repeat for all directories you want to move.
After you are sure of things you can get rid of the *.hold directories.


One other note to remove a directory link use: rd

[Tueur]

Hi there,

My OS isn't on the NAS. The OS is on the local drive, but I have literally just OS and software on there. That linking could prove very useful so I will investigate and have a go.

Thank you

[Tueur]

You actually have your OS on the DNS-323?  I never went that far I just all my personal data on it.

You can not index because that requires the server to index in a form that Windows 7 will accept and as far as I know there is no such application that would do that on the DNS-323, but that doesn't mean you can't get your Documents and such folders on the DNS-323, you just have to fool Windows 7 as to where they are.

And note that if you actually have everything on the DNS-323 then "linking" might or might work for you, because in fact you would be doing a link on the DNS-323 (Linux) not on a Windows drive.  And of course to do linking on the DNS-323 itself you would have to have shell access and such.

So anyway here is my setup.
C:\Users\Chris is where my user account is and is a Windows drive.

And now say I want C:\Users\Chris\Documents to be at:
\\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents.

First all I log into a different account and copy all the files from C:\Users\Chris\Documents to \\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents.
next just I right click on the "Command Prompt" and select to run as administrator.
Now go to C:\Users\Chris and do:
move Documents  Documents.hold
Next:
mklink /D Documents \\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents

This creates a link from C:\Users\Chris\Documents to \\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents and basically from that point on programs that refer to C:\Users\Chris\Documents won't even know they are in fact talking to \\DLink-NAS\Users\Chris\Documents.

Repeat for all directories you want to move.
After you are sure of things you can get rid of the *.hold directories.


One other note to remove a directory link use: rd

his worked fantasically well thank you! Only slight issue is how long it is taking to add files to media libraries. but with no indexing that is to be expected.

Thanks again