ProTools does not support unmapped network volumes
 

ok so i was thinking about something and had some free time so i wanted to try this out.
I took my laptop and connected it to my desktop using a firewire cable, because i know that
you can network computers together but i've never tried it out, so first thing was first,
i hooked them up and went through some of my files on my desktop while on my laptop over
the firewire network, and i can say that it is way faster than ethernet, so the next test
was to try to run a pro tools session and that's when i got the error
"Pro Tools does not support unmapped network volumes"
so i don't know if it's just not possible to record this way or if there is some kind of
setup process i have to do to "map" the "network volume", and if it is not possible then
when i build a new desktop for recording i may take my old desktop and through it into a
rackmountable server case and load it up with harddrives and record onto a firewire drive
then after i record i can backit up on the "server computer".

any thoughts?

-matt

Re: ProTools does not support unmapped network vol
 

open windows explorer --> tools --> map network drive.

Taking a network share and making it into a drive letter = "Mapping"

You can often (but not always) right click and make it mapped that way also.

Hope this helps.

Re: ProTools does not support unmapped network vol
 

You can run into difficulty if one system is setup for simple and the other for advanced file sharing (in which case you'd have to set permissions manually).

Re: ProTools does not support unmapped network vol
 

ok now it's set as a mapped drive but i'm getting an error

"Recording" cannot be designated as an Audio Playback volume because it is not a fixed, removable or MediaNet volume.

so i don't know if this will be possible to get to work or not, and if i do get it to work it might not even be worth it, what are your feeling about it? and if i can't get it to work what
if i just set up a storage computer like this to backstuff up onto and used firewire 800 to connect
to it and just had a firewire drive to actually record onto,

Re: ProTools does not support unmapped network vol
 

ok i just realized, that my firewire harddrive that is hooked up to my desktop is being recognized by my laptop as a harddrive and not a mapped volume and i am able to play and record onto that that drive, it is my internal drive that i'm having the problems with in my above post

Re: ProTools does not support unmapped network vol
 

I'm pretty sure ProTools LE doesn't support recording to a network drive.

Re: ProTools does not support unmapped network vol
 

yeah, the only reason i thought it might was because they were networked using firewire,
the only odd thing is that my firewire drive that is hooked up to my desktop, was reconognized
as a normal drive by my laptop when i hooked them up together, but that might just be because
i was running both things through the same firewire card on the desktop(differnt inputs, just
the same card, nothing was daisy chainged)

Re: ProTools does not support unmapped network vol
 

It's not happy unless it's a medianet network (and even then, i'm not sure if 6.7 is completely happy with medianet).