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If you are using a NAS drive to store your iTunes media, you may get a "File not found" error when trying to access content via Home Sharing and when running iTunes under iHomeServer, but no error when running iTunes interactively.
This can happen if you have mapped network drives and added content from those mapped network drives to iTunes.
The problem is that these mapped network drives are made available to your interactive desktop by Windows explorer. When iTunes runs interactively, explorer.exe is running in the same session as iTunes and therefore iTunes can see these network locations. When iTunes is run by iHomeServer, it is run in a background session dedicated to Windows services. This session does not run explorer.exe and therefore does not have access to the mapped network drive letters.
The simplest way around this is to use fully qualified UNC file naming conventions when adding media to iTunes or when setting up Watched folders in iHomeServer. For example, instead of adding content from your f:\ (mapped to \\mynas\media), add it directly from the UNC path \\mynas\media.
The ability to set up mapped drives for iHomeServer iTunes instances may be added in a future version, if there is sufficient demand - so please let us know your thoughts!
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