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by gurpal2000
April 7th, 2010, 4:54 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc
Replies: 15
Views: 17695

Re: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc

BTW i installed sabnzbd on XP and accessing the same share is fine and it allows v:/
hmm....
by gurpal2000
April 3rd, 2010, 6:38 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc
Replies: 15
Views: 17695

Re: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc

ok, my samba config is as follows: [global]   workgroup = WORKGROUP   server string = %h (Samba)   dns proxy = no   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m   max log size = 1000   syslog = 0   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d   encrypt passwords = true   passdb backend = tdbsam   obey pam re...
by gurpal2000
April 2nd, 2010, 1:20 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc
Replies: 15
Views: 17695

Re: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc

Code: Select all

import os
os.makedirs("\\\\server\\share\\folder\\testme")
works perfectly fine... (also tried "v:/folder/testme2") both work.
by gurpal2000
April 2nd, 2010, 1:14 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc
Replies: 15
Views: 17695

Re: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc

How did you get Win 7 to talk to Ubuntu's Samba server? I cannot get them on speaking terms. Some Googling suggested to lower all sorts of security settings, which I'm not very eager to do. Also it looks like Ubuntu's standard Samba is just too old to talk to Win7. never had a problem with ubuntu a...
by gurpal2000
April 2nd, 2010, 12:43 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc
Replies: 15
Views: 17695

Re: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc

The best way to test is to download and install ActiveState Python 2.5 on your system. This is the download link: http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/releases/2.5.5.7/ActivePython-2.5.5.7-win32-x86.msi After installing, open a command prompt and type python You'll get the Python prompt, t...
by gurpal2000
April 2nd, 2010, 12:14 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc
Replies: 15
Views: 17695

Re: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc

SABnzbd is perfectly fine with UNC paths on my systems. What kind of server (or other system) do you have the shares on? v:\ drive is mapped to \\server\share which is ubuntu 9.10 samba server (2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6) mapped. a username/password is required. Windows 7 itself is sitting inside a VMware ...
by gurpal2000
April 2nd, 2010, 6:27 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc
Replies: 15
Views: 17695

Re: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc

i mean echo hello > \\server\share\folder\hello.txt does work i'm trying to save to say \\server\share\folder  (or v:\folder) that does NOT work when i type in the web form Also in windows 7 ie 8, the error message doesn't always render. the html source is visible with text like "Incorrect para...
by gurpal2000
April 2nd, 2010, 4:52 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc
Replies: 15
Views: 17695

saving to network drive windows 7 - not working with actual or unc

Hi The app won't allow me to select the download folder (any type) as say: v:\ v:/ \\servername\sharename //servername/sharename various other combo aren't working. The log is simply something on the lines of "cannot create folder" even if i delete the target (thus allowing sabnzbd) to try...