For unknown reason unable install network source

[fuddyduddy]

Hello

(In an earlier thread I sought and got help with setting-up RuneAudio with a particular approach in mind. Time marches on and I'm back at the same point again but this time with a somewhat altered approach. Because of that I thought I'd better start a new thread rather than hark-back to the earlier one; besides, I hope I've learned a few lessons in the meantime).

I originally installed RuneAudio directly onto my ODroid C1+ (ie I'm not using an ODroid SD card pre-loaded with Ubuntu or Android). I'm now aiming to control the C1 with a Samsung Galaxy Tab3 (Android ver. 4.4.2, kernel ver. 3.4.5-3952694 22/1/2015).

I'm able to bring up Rune's web interface on the Tab3's browser. But that's where I've become stuck - for three days now. Despite all my considerable efforts I cannot manage to install the network source I want to use. It's a network share named My Music I've created on my desktop computer in Windows 10, into which I've put my existing (pretty meagre) music collection. Right-clicking on it and selecting <Properties - Sharing> the network path is given as \\DESKTOP8\My Music; it's shared with "Everyone".

I ought, SURELY, to be able just to enter "DESKTOP8/My Music" as <Remote directory> and that should be it? But I've tried every different way I can think-of to format that file-path and every time a red cross is displayed in response. I'm forced to conclude that there's some other explanation than syntax alone which must lie behind this behaviour but I can't even begin to guess what it might be.

Any suggestions?

[hondagx35]

Hi fuddyduddy,

please try "My Music" instead of "DESKTOP8/My Music".
"DESKTOP8" is the hostname from your PC!

After saving the setting return to the sources page.
At the top you will be prompted with the error message.

You can also try to rename your source and omit the blank and other special characters.

Frank

[fuddyduddy]

[fuddyduddy]

OK - back again - having finally been forced to format my system drive and clean-reinstall Windows 10.

Have re-setup network share named "My Music" on Windows 10, re-enabled <File and printer sharing> and <Media streaming>

Thereupon having tried once again to mount that share in Rune I arrived at exactly the same roadblock as before. The error-message reads "Couldn't chdir to /mnt/MPD/NAS/My Music: No such file or directory".

What am I missing?

[hondagx35]

[fuddyduddy]

[fuddyduddy]

Hello again

Reporting back.

Today after weeks of frustrattion and tearing my hair out I finally hit upon the childishly simple solution to the problem I've been having:- I re-flashed the micro SSD card, using the same downloaded image as originally. Hey presto I was immediately able to mount the network share "My Music" located on my desktop machine. Right out of the box, no trouble at all.

That's all there was to it.

It surprises me a bit that nobody suggested I might try that. I suppose it would just have seemed so elementary. Not for me however. Which kind of bears out what I wrote in my previous post.