Filed under iHomeServer , iTunes , Windows Home Server
We have had quite a few users recently who have been unable to get iHomeServer to index content on network drives or local DriveBender storage pools. The symptoms of this are that you can add and view files in iTunes that are stored on a remote / network or DriveBender drive when you are running iTunes interactively, however, when you run iTunes via iHomeServer then you can no longer add new content and existing content may not be available within iTunes. Some users have also had problems seeing cover art and other metadata when they have pointed their iTunes to an iTunes library on a network drive. You may see these symptoms immediately, or after a reboot or even intermittedly.
We posted a blog post a while ago about File Not Found errors similar issues and it is the same root cause problem here.
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