win 7 libaries and linux file servers

General Computing Microsoft Windows
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Hi All,

so i went to finaly add my networked music collection to the music libaries in win 7 this morning only for windows to tell me that location was not indexed. ok fair enough…

problem is wiht the explorer showing libaries as the default view i would really like to add my music folder to the libary…

file server is running samba and the only way i have found to sort it would be to wipe my fileserver and install win7 or server 2008 neither i want to do…

so whats the story here? is it possible and if so how on earth can i do it?

cheers

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Hi wyntrblue,

A couple of things to try:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/4617-libraries-include-network-folder.htm

Turn off the indexing service if you don’t really need it.

There is a patch available for Vista to allow indexing of network shares:

http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2007/04/21/how-do-i-index-network-shares-in-vista.aspx

Best wishes

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hi scrooge,

i have tried the latter but none of those suggestions sorted the problem :frowning: