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danskr

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Post Sat May 09, 2015 7:15 pm

Is it impossible to add NAS drive with Win7 Home?

Hi - I've looked through and tried a lot of the suggestions for adding a folder on a NAS drive to my Serviio library all to no joy - and I'm wondering if its just plain impossible to achieve this with Win 7 Home edition...

According to the help page its all about credentials. http://www.serviio.org/component/content/article?id=21#q5 . As far as I can tell, I need identical user accounts on windows and on my NAS drive. Then I need to add the user to the Serviio log in in Services and also give the user "Run As Service" rights, and then add the NAS drive as a 'UNC' path.

I am no IT expert and find the whole networking experience on windows anything from mildly confusing to incomprehensibly insane. But as far as I can tell I've set up the user accounts etc all correctly except there appears to be no way to give the user the Run as Service rights. This is apparently achieved through editing my Local Security Policy in Admin but its seems my version of Windows 7 (home premium) does not have this option - its only listed on the more advanced versions of Win 7.

Does this mean that there is no way I can add the Shared Videos on my NAS drive if I cannot give a user these Run as Service rights - or is possible that I have added something incorrectly elsewhere? I can see the NAS shared folder on my TV but it doesn't scan the contents : 'No Items To Display'.

My set up is WIndows 7 Home Premium with a Workgroup
Virgin Wireless Router
WD My Cloud Network Drive
And a Sony Bravia smart TV.

Oh and the latest version of Serviio of course!
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atc98092

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Post Mon May 11, 2015 12:33 pm

Re: Is it impossible to add NAS drive with Win7 Home?

The issue right now is that you have Serviio running as a Windows Service and the user name it runs under is an internal Windows account that you can't duplicate on the NAS. You need to change the user account that Serviio runs as to a user account that matches one on both the computer and the NAS.

You change the user name for the service under the Services app in Windows. Find Serviio in the list and double-click to open the properties. Click the "Log On" tab. You will see it is likely running under the Local System account. Click the "This Account" button, then browse for the user name you want. Enter the password as necessary and click "Apply". Then switch to the "General" tab, click "Stop", and after the service stops click "Start". You are now running Serviio with the user account that will allow connecting to the NAS.
Dan

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danskr

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Post Fri May 15, 2015 6:07 pm

Re: Is it impossible to add NAS drive with Win7 Home?

Thanks - I've been trying different options through the Log On options, but one thing I dont get is a list of Users when I click browse. This time though I entered my main admin name and password and restarted the service - no error (i often get error 1069). But the NAC folder on the TV still shows no items to display.

The log seems to show this: " Repository '\\192.168.0.9' is not currently available. Deferring all operations for later."

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