[SOLVED] Cannot add Airport Disk HD

Hi there. Please bear with me. I'm not super technical.

I have Serviio running on my MacBook. It connects to my Sony Bravia KDL 32EX521 wirelessly, I have the wireless adapter for the TV .

I have an Airport Extreme with a 1TB HD connected to it via USB. I store my movies and music on this drive. I would like to have Serviio pull these files but I'm not sure what the address is to enter into the console shared folders setting so I can access these files. I can grab the files on my MacBook ok but I don't know how to add the Airport Disk.

Can someone please walk me through what I'm doing incorrectly? Thank you in advance.

[Cerberus]

My files (on remote drive) are not scanned

Make sure the user that runs Serviio server/service has got access to the shared folders. If you are on Windows, check that the user running the Windows service has got access. To run the service as a different user go to Services (from the Windows Control Panel → Administrative Tools or typing "Services.msc" in the Run command on Start menu), select Serviio, right-click -> Properties, Log On tab, enter user's details and restart the service.

To access a NAS device the exact same set of credentials must be created on the NAS device. The Windows credentials must be a local user and not a domain user. The user must have "Run As Service" rights.

The remote path must be entered as a UNC path in the Serviio Console (e.g. \\server\folder)), mapped drive letters will not work since user running the Serviio service is not aware of your mapped drives.

My files (on remote drive) are not scanned

Make sure the user that runs Serviio server/service has got access to the shared folders. If you are on Windows, check that the user running the Windows service has got access. To run the service as a different user go to Services (from the Windows Control Panel → Administrative Tools or typing "Services.msc" in the Run command on Start menu), select Serviio, right-click -> Properties, Log On tab, enter user's details and restart the service.

To access a NAS device the exact same set of credentials must be created on the NAS device. The Windows credentials must be a local user and not a domain user. The user must have "Run As Service" rights.

The remote path must be entered as a UNC path in the Serviio Console (e.g. \\server\folder)), mapped drive letters will not work since user running the Serviio service is not aware of your mapped drives.

I have a Mac and there arent user accouns in play. Not sure how running a Windows control panel will help or what a UNC path is. I did look though all the FAQS btw.

[Cerberus]

ok we will try it another way then.

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=net_mac

Yes read the wiki too.

I don't need to map the drive - it shows up in the finder ok. I just need to know how Serviio wants to see the address. Do I need the AFS prefix? Or can I just write it as airport name/hardrivename ? Neither seem to work. Is there another prefix I should use?

Hi "just a girl",

I faced the same problem (Sony Bravia + Airdisk). I installed serviio yesterday and found the solution this morning.

0. Mount your airdisk if it's not mounted (since you see it on the Finder, you can skip this step)
1. You need to choose "Local Files" like for ordinary folders
2. Select the top folder: it's the icon of a hard disk and corresponds to the name of your partition; in my computer it is called "Mac"
3. Go to "Volumes": in this path, you can see all your mounted hard drives (through USB, Airport network, ...)
[I found a screenshot showing this folder ]

4. You just need to select your airdisk and then choose the folders you want to add.

Worked like a charm on my old Mac.

Hope it helps!

@jfthuong – that's perfect.

I really had a lot of trouble with this – but it was easy
A thousands of thumbs up!

[zip]

cool, added to wiki http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=mac_airdisk