SC 7.4: Symbolic links not browsable?

[Wigster]

Hi,

Just upgraded to 7.4 on WHS. In my music library directory I have a symbolic link to my laptop.

With 7.3.3 I used to browse folders and play music on the laptop, which is a separate machine to the server. Now the link appears, but when I browse to it, SC thinks it is an album, giving me all sort of options like add to favorites but it does not actually get the contents of the folder.

[mherger]

> Just upgraded to 7.4 on WHS. In my music library directory I have a
> symbolic link to my laptop.

Symbolic link on Windows? Don't even know how to do this... Please enlighten me.

Did this ever work in 7.3?

[citoyen]

As reported elsewhere on this forum, my Squeezebox Server does not follow symbolic links and treats them as albums instead. This was the case with 7.3.4 and I'm seeing the same with 7.4.1. The symbolic links lead to directories on a separate hard disk in the same computer. Permissions have been checked and double-checked.

My Squeezebox Server runs on Ubuntu Linux 9.04.

[Wigster]

Well, I am not sure whether is it a "symbolic" link, but a have a laptop.lnk file sitting in my library directory on the server which is a shortcut to my laptop's music directory, so I can play stuff there through the browse folder menu (both running Windows).

There is another link in my library folder, but this one leads to a directory on the same server (I have a FLAC and a separate MP3s directory, the scanner stars in the FLACs and recurses down to the MP3s through this link). THis one seems to work OK.

Therefore, it appears that only links to different machines (drives?) are affected.

Something has changed definitely: the folder on my laptop is called Music, while the laptop's machine name is GIMP. SC 7.3.3 used to list this link under G in the alphabetical list but called it "Music". Now it is called Gimp, as it should be, and listed under 'G' but it behaves as if it were an album with no tracks.