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2010-09-06, 22:36
I would like to install three computers in different rooms, which connect to a network storage with my movie collection.
Now I have to build the database on each computer or I build it on one computer and copy it to another. What about the possibility to choose the database save directory on my network storage?
Thanks for this great mediacenter! I use this since the first version for the xbox was released.
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prae5
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This is already possible - search the forums - keyword mysql
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Thanks, I will search for the mysql solution.
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If the mysql solution looks too messy for you (although it's the preferred solution), read up on Symbolic Links.
Use a symbolic link for the database folder and link it to a shared folder on a server. This will work fine as long as you only use one client/PC as the 'master' to update the database at any single time, and simply use all other PC's to read the same data from the shared folder.
Should work fine in Linux/Vista/7 and probably OSX too.
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If you want covers and fanart, setting up using symlinks will be the easier way to go. Plex`s PMS sollution for this is far superior though, but as of right now it only runs on osx. A pluging allowing PMS to serve xbmc is possible, and PMS will release for Windows based rigs later this year.