• Trick windows into thinking my NAS is an ordinary harddrive?
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Is this possible? I'm running Windows 8.1 and right now my WD MyBookLive is a networkunit and not a normal unit. My intentions with this is to have some of my steam library on it. I know I can shove them over using symlinks, but I was wondering if it was possible in some other way.
The only way other than symlinks would be if you could connect to device via iSCSI so it treats the storage as if it was local. Last I heard the WD My Book Live doesn't have iSCSI support, though I don't know if there was some update/fix/hack to enable it. At this point the easiest solution would be to just use symlinks.
I see, I'll just go with symlinks then I guess. Thanks for your help.
[QUOTE=Donkie;43436802]I see, I'll just go with symlinks then I guess. Thanks for your help.[/QUOTE] How about mounting it as a network drive? That should work too.
Could you explain further? I'm fairly sure it's a network drive already, steam seems to only detect drives. (Me having a swedish windows doesn't help at all) This is how it currently looks: [IMG]http://puu.sh/6bQs0/0da2fc5cd7.png[/IMG]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ed0JLBa.png[/img]
[QUOTE=nikomo;43440952][img]http://i.imgur.com/ed0JLBa.png[/img][/QUOTE] Sadly this doesn't seem to work in Steam, I do remember trying to do a similar thing (even just to restore a backup) and as Steam uses the non-standard file browse dialogue, the drive doesn't apppear.
[QUOTE=rhx123;43441186]Sadly this doesn't seem to work in Steam, I do remember trying to do a similar thing (even just to restore a backup) and as Steam uses the non-standard file browse dialogue, the drive doesn't apppear.[/QUOTE] I'm afraid you're wrong, because this worked great! Perhaps steam has updated since you tried. Thanks for the help, all of you!
[QUOTE=Donkie;43441323]I'm afraid you're wrong, because this worked great! Perhaps steam has updated since you tried. Thanks for the help, all of you![/QUOTE] Yes that must be the case, because I spent about an hour trying to fart around with various network drive methods to get steam to work. That or I was doing it on Win7 at the time, and maybe Win8 handles network drives at a lower level. Apologies for misleading.
[QUOTE=rhx123;43441347]Yes that must be the case, because I spent about an hour trying to fart around with various network drive methods to get steam to work. That or I was doing it on Win7 at the time, and maybe Win8 handles network drives at a lower level. Apologies for misleading.[/QUOTE] I'm on 7 as well and Steam won't install games to any of my network drives, though backup and restore will see the network drives. I'm interested to see if this is just a Windows 8 feature somehow.
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