Help with Network drive.

How do I get TiimeMachine to recognize a WiFi ReadyShare drive? I see it in Finder, but TimeMachine doesn't see it.

Did you check with the manufacturer to see if it was Time Machine capable?
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Will Extreme Help With Network Drive Speed ...

I was happy with my Snow Airport until I bought a ethernet based network attached storage. It takes forever to copy any big files and streaming a dvd file for watching is very choppy.
I am considering Extreme base station. Will you be able to stream a DVD file fast enough to watch? Anyone, Anyone?

You mention you have a Snow Airport. That model only has 802.11b - about 500-800K/s on a good, quiet network.
You talk about buying the new Extreme model. That will get 1,500 - 2,500K/s on a good, quiet network.
That will let you watch the DVD with 'less' choppyness, but it still won't be as good as reading straight from the DVD.
Typically if you care about watching DVDs, I'd suggest using a DVD ripper to turn it into a Quicktime / DIVX movie of some sort, which would then be small enough to easily view over even your Snow Airport BS's network (and would be great with the Airport Extreme BS).
I can't agree with any of the suggestions from the prior poster. The issue is unlikely to be RAM (assuming you have enough to run OS X and aren't running other tasks in the background) or NAS speed; your network speed is vastly faster than your wireless network speed, so I wouldn't even worry about that.

CS 5 Bridge Downloader crashes with network drive

For the first time with CS5 I have tried "getting photos" from my camera. If I specify the destination on my local drive there is no problem. If, I specify a mapped network drive the downloader stalls, and eventually I have to kill the program in task manager.
I didn't have this problem with CS4. Has anyone tried using this workflow with a network drive with success?
Any ideas what the problem might be?
There is plenty of free space on the network drive.
Thanks.

Adobe always answers that they can't guarantee anything working with networked drives because they can't know every network configuration out there.
Hence, always save to a local drive initially.

TM works with network drives?

Just to be sure - TM works with directly attached drives. But does it also work with network drives? I hope it does at least with Apples newest update.
Thanks
Andreas

There is plenty of documentation/discussion of a workaround that let's you make your computer recognize unsupported drives. Search for it using words like terminal network unsupported drive backup and you will find it. Some people say it works fine, and others caution against using it. I haven't seen a thorough discussion that really explains why Apple doesn't allow it, or why it's risky, or why it works, but that's typical of the boards that attract a techie crowd. Me? After spending $650 for a Terastation, I'm going to give it a try. Apple wants so badly for Windows users to switch to Mac, but they sometimes seem to make it very difficult and frustrating for us.

Need help with networking external hard drive

Hi,
I am working on a corporate network and I have a Western Digital My Book Studio Edition external hard drive attached to a Mac OSX 10.4. i have other Macs connecting through the network to this Mac and accessing the external hard drive and it works just fine for that.
What I need help with is the fact that I also have several PCs on the same network (all XP), that need to connect to the hard drive and access the files. I've been able to connect to the Mac using the XP by accessing the IP address. I also set the Mac up with password credentials so that I had to log in to the Mac to access the files. But when I try to access the Mac, it only shows the main computer drive as the only available share and no external drive.
Does anyone know how to access a Western Digital external drive on a Mac from a PC through a network?

For an external hard disk drive or other (different) system shared
storage devices to work, they probably should be formatted in a
format seen by both operating systems.
If the WD unit is not seen by Windows computers on your network,
the WD may have been formatted in HFS+ for the Macintosh. That
is OK unless you need a Windows computer to access the same.
The Macintosh can see and use a standard Windows disc format;
so the external drive may need to be reformatted away from HFS+
if that is really what is going on (and archive any data on the suspect
drive elsewhere, since it will be lost to reformatting overwrites)
and then both Mac OS X and Windows should see the files on there.
And Macs set up to run Windows may also see the non-Mac format;
without having to re-boot via BootCamp, if that option is in use.
As to the other question(s) I really have no idea at this point in time.
And since that may be the rub, hopefully someone will follow up here.
Good luck & happy computing!

Using UTL_FILE in NT with network drive

I want to use utl_file for file handling and try to use util_file.fopen for opening file from a mapping network drive (say F with error "Invalid Operation".
I've got no error when I handling file in local drive.
Can anyone help ?
Rgds,
Edward
(ps I've already set the parameter utl_file_dir=*)
null

Hello,
In december an Edward TSE had a same kind of problem. I replied to him the following solution after which I was helped.
Instead of using:
declare
fh_lis utl_file.file_type;
begin
fh_lis := utl_file.fopen(
location => '\\caghk8\vtfp2\transfer\',
filename => 'tpx.txt',
open_mode => 'r');
utl_file.fclose(fh_lis);
end;
Use:
declare
fh_lis utl_file.file_type;
begin
fh_lis := utl_file.fopen('\\caghk8\vtfp2\transfer\', 'tpx.txt', 'r');
utl_file.fclose(fh_lis);
end;
He said it worked!
null

Slow iPod sync with network drive

I run a small network for my home/office (I am self employed) with about 4 PCs for me and my family.
We have 3 iPods in our family and we just use one PC to host iTunes, but because we have so much music, I have put the music on a network drive served from my file server (Windows Small Business Server - Windows Server 2003 based).
There's no problem with this setup, except one:
I've noticed that when iPods sync with iTunes, it takes a very long time, perhaps 5 times as long than when I had my music files on an external hard drive directly connected to the PC on which we run iTunes.
This is fustrating. My question is: is there anything that can be done about this ?
I can't really understand why this should be an issue. iTunes has, stored in the library files on my local PC, the details of all my music files. So when my iPod syncs, surely iTunes consults the iPod and consults what is in iTunes and figures out what should change - and then and only then should iTunes need to connect to the network drive to actually get any necessary files. Is my understanding wrong of what iTunes is doing when syncing an iPod ?
The issue is that even with no changes, sync-ing is an issue.
Any help on this gratefully received - have looked in this forum and other places, but haven't managed to trawl and info on my issue.

Having been given an iPod video 60Gig as a present, I am sometimes forced to use it.
Recently I tried - I downloaded and installed latest itunes 7.5 on the PC running Windows XP.
Built up the library of music - tried to do a sync. So slow I nearly hit the PC. The transfer rate would merely get 40 Meg on in 5 minutes (thats my estimate all I know is it never finished). I tried to leave it running for 3 hours and still not finished - the size of music to transfer was about 2400 songs.
I then tried to use Vista Home Basic - with itunes 7.5 - it wouldnt even recognize the ipod.
After a few days of giving up and banging my head against the wall I tried Linux too - but that was slow too.
I eventually went back to Vista and de-installed itunes 7.5 - found version 6.05 and installed it. It went through like clockwork (well as clockwork as can be it was magically fast but fast enough to fill half of the 60Gig).
I then had the magic idea - why not update to 7.5 from 6.05 and guess what - its slow again painfully slow.
Version 7.5 *****!

Issue with network drive on E3000

So I have a brand new network drive and its NTFS formatted and when I go into the management screen all it shows is:
Disk1 : Seagate FA GoFlex Desk
Partition
File System
Capacity
Free Space
Create Share
Total
1863.016 GB
1863.016 GB
When I try to connect it returns the volume name, but cannot be mounted. When I format at FAT32 then instead of the * I see FAT32, but not so with NTFS. I owuld have gone FAT32, but the 4GB file limit is a problem.
Help? Any ideas?
Thanks.

As far as i can look into this, Your HDD should work with the same as Original Documentation that comes along with the Linksys E3000 router and also mentioned on the official website, says that it supports file system like FAT16, FAT32 & NTFS.....
What you can try is first of all take up a complete back up of the data that is already present on the HDD that you are using and then try to reformat the HDD using one of your computer...
Also check out the following links to support your cause
http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=80&app=vw&vw=1&login=1&json=1&docid=1eb1e107d62d49b8ba23b...
http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=80&app=vw&vw=1&login=1&json=1&docid=0868d4e24a6a468280c3c...

FCPX 10.1.3 problem with network drive

I just upgraded to FCPX 10.1.3 (and OS X Mavericks 10.9.5). I'm trying to update my old projects/events but FCPX does not recognise the drive as a valid drive.
If I go to File > Update..., then Locate... and try to navigate to the Time Capsule, I get the message 'Choose a SAN location or folder containing Final Cut Projects and Events to update into a new library.' It also states that 'The current selection is not valid. Choose another SAN location or folder.'
I use a Time Capsule drive, with no Time Machine files, no DCIM and no AVCHD files. The 'Final Cut Events' and 'Final Cut Projects' folders are at the root level. The Time Capsule is connected via ethernet cable to a Thunderbolt screen which is connected via thunderbolt cable to the laptop. I can see Time Capsule on the desktop and have no problem access files on it.
Please help!
Thanks in advance.
Mo

Thanks Tom, I'll try that.
And is there no way that it would work with a network drive?

Time Machine restore problem with network drive

Hi, I switched from PC to Mac. I bought a Lacie Network Space 2 (network hd) in an apple store (turns out it's NOT an apple store, it's an apple premium reseller according to the 90 days free telephone support guy, and apple's policy is then: you should have bought a 'time capsule' then.) That doesn't help me now. So I'm hoping some of you might have had this or similar trouble before. The Lacie drive is able to back up my macbook through time machine. It recognizes the drive and it does my backups on a time machine enable share on the hard drive. So I thought it worked like a charm. Until i wanted to go back to a previous date and restore all my data. I read you gotta start from the mac os install dvd and choose the restore option in utility. It recognizes the lacie harddrive. But when i want to connect to it it will say connection failed! I tried this over wifi (the hard drive connect to my linksys router with ethernet cable) and i tried this with the hard drive directly connected to the macbook with ethernet cable. It always finds the harddrive but when i want to connect to it to choose a previous date to restore, i can't even get there because it will say the connection failed. I'd really appreciate some help, because I tried to go on support pages and look up an answer, called apple, but can't really figure out what's wrong. So it can backup, it can restore single or multiple files in time machine, but it can't restore the whole OS when used with the install disc? Also made a dmg file with disk utility, but this one doesn't recognize the network drive. Finder does however. Any tips? Any at all, please?

Fototom wrote:
I had to mark a 'time machine' checkbox in the Lacie UI for it to be able to work as a time machine drive. So the backups work fine without special terminal commands. It's just weird that it won't restore the full OS back when started up with the install DVD.
Whatever the +LaCie UI+ is, that's probably why you can't do the full restore. That may be doing the equivalent of the Terminal command, to "fool" Time Machine into thinking it's backing-up to a supported destination. But you can't do that when booted from your SL Install disc, so Time Machine can't find the network drive.
I tried the option during Setup Assistant to transfer data earlier, but it won't recognize the drive at that time.
Yes, that's likely for the same reason.
BUT I didn't know about *migration manager*. So the option of installing mac osx again and then creating another user and using the migration assistant, that DOES recognize the time machine backups, will surely work.
Never say "surely" until you know
It would be nice to skip the extra step of having to install the OS first, but this will definitely be a valid option to restore. So for now i'll mark this item solved.
Let us know how it turns out.
If anyone has even a speedier, better option to backup and restore a total disc image (or time machine backup), please let me know.
The time involved is probably about the same; it's just in two steps instead of one.
And there's only one step if you use a "supported" destination: Disks that can be used with Time Machine.

Working with network drives

I am having this trouble access files on a network drive. If I specify "G:\Folder\Filename" I get a file not found. If I specfy "\\server\Folder\Filename" it works fine. I'd prefer to use the first method as it would involve me not having to update all files to work this way, any suggestions?
-Scott

Yeah, I guess that would help. It's OAS 10gR1. This is a forms application. displaying images stored on a network drive.
Running on Windows 2003. When I try to open an image on a shared drive, it gives me "cannot be found" works in client server version (we use both forms 5, and then forms 10g for web components). When we try to open with App server using UNC \\server\folder\image it works fine.
Thanks for any help
-Scott

"UFO" Airport Extreme with network drive

I have an older, UFO-shaped Airport Extreme and I am trying to use a network drive with it. I got a new drive, formatted it and plugged it into my Airport via USB. The drive spun up, but nothing happened. Can't seem to connect to it via my computer, I have tried to do so via the "Network" and through Time Machine.

Sorry, but the older 802.11g (dome-shaped) AirPort Extreme Base Station's USB port will only support USB printers not hard drives.

Canon 6D EOS with network drive

When will the EOS utility be upgraded to it can DL file to a network drive? Eye-Fi has been always able to do this.

mvadu wrote:
I am new to full frame camera, and a new proud owner of Canon 6D. I used to shoot with a T1i before. I also have a YN-468 flash. Since 6D does not have an on-board flash, I want to start use the external flash more often.
As per many online guides, (e.g. photonotes.org/articles/eos-flash/index2.html) in Manual (M) exposure mode flash power is varied to expose the subject, while the shutter and aperture determine the ambient light.
I followed this approach, and on T1i it works as expected.
On 6D however it does not seem to work that way. The flash is firing, but the photos are tuned out black! (or extremely under exposed)
Both are shot in Manual Exposure mode, with same lens (24-105 L) @ 1/50, f/4, ISO-400. Since this setting was giving little over exposed in T1i, I put -2 FEC on both. I asked this question on Flickr forum and general conscious was that 6D is implementing some new algorithm for eTTL and hence previously working third party accessories may not work any more. Is it true?
I am borrowing one my friends 430Ex tonight to try if a Canon flash would work as expected to make sure my copy 6D is not defective.
Hi,
As RexGig said, full reverse engineering is required for 3rd party accessories to work properly, and Canon 6D may have an algorithm that detects 3rd party flash units...
Please let us know if the 430EXII worked fine.
Also remember that shutter speed won't affect the flash shoot if it's between the syncrhonizing speed (asuming you're not capturing environment light, otherwise the shutter speed will indeed make influence on the picture, but not because of the flash)
An additional test could be not using the flash with eTTL, but with a hot shoe adapter without communication to the camera. Of course, that would be very limiting to all manual settings.
Regards
HD Cam Team
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Strange problem with network drive

i can see my network drive but i cant see the files and folders inside .Please help me...

When you say, you "can't see," do you mean they are not visible at all, or that you can't access certain folders due to permissions issues?

SQLLOADER issues with Network Drive

Hi ,
I am running Oracle 10g in my PC ( Windows XP Professional ) in D Drive. I have created Oracle Directory and mapped to Network Drive Z: I have created external table successfully with this Directory. When i run select statement, i am getting the below error. All the permissions have given on Network Drive.
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04040: file TBL006.txt in DI_EXTERNAL_TABLE not found
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19
ORA-06512: at line 1
Kindly advice me on the above issue, if you know the solution.
Thanks in Advace
Hanimi Reddy

There is no solution.
Oracle simply has never supported networked drives, because you would need to run Oracle using the domain administrator account.
This poses security risks.
You need to copy the file to a local drive.
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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