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additional aircraft folders for FGFS 2016.3 on a cifs share?

Postby wowogiengen » Sun Oct 23, 2016 11:31 am

Hello,
is it possible to have the aircraft folder on a remote network share that is accessible via cifs network share? And how do i setup this if it is possible?

I have a synology diskstation and can access different folders that are mounted in a subfolder of my desktop folder or my documents folder.
I can select this folder as a aircraft folder, but i cannot see the aircraft in this folder.

Greetings Wolfgang
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Re: additional aircraft folders for FGFS 2016.3 on a cifs sh

Postby wkitty42 » Sun Oct 23, 2016 5:02 pm

i've asked about doing this on the dev mailing list...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: additional aircraft folders for FGFS 2016.3 on a cifs sh

Postby wkitty42 » Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:26 pm

this should work... here is james' reply from the dev list...

> is it possible to mount a folder locally from a CIFS mount and use that as an
> Aircraft folder? would there be a problem with some sort of "truename"
> unravelling of the folder's actual mount? can fgfs handle this OK?

In theory it should work fine, probably needs some test and checking by Windows-savvy people to make sure.

Do CIFS paths contain double-backslashes? ‘\\’? I wonder if some of the string helpers might collapse these.


so test away and please report back... if you have problems, please set --log-level=debug and pastebin a copy so we can look it over to find the problem...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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