ProTools does not support unmapped network volumes

[Matt Whritenour]

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

[bigbubbaj]

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.

[Chris Cavell]

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).

[Matt Whritenour]

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,

[Matt Whritenour]

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

[tele_player]

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