Change location of connected disk

[glynn]

Hi there,

I’m trying to figure out if it is possible to change the location (on the Player / Client Windows machine) where a connect disk appears when I connect to Remote / Server machines disk.  But default this appears on my desktop.  Although that seems logical and useful, in my particular case I have my desktop automatically backed-up / mirrored using OneDrive and so anything that appears on my desktop starts to be queried by OneDrive with the intention of backing it up.  This is not something I want to happen and I don’t think I can easily stop OneDrive from doing this.

Is is possible to change the location where the connected drive appears on my Player / Client machine (from Desktop to somewhere else)?

I’m happy to change registry keys / edit config files etc.

Many thanks,

Glynn

[Britgirl]

Hi, on the server side this is possible. There are two keys in the node.cfg file that let you set the specific path.

# Specify path of base directory where the node has to mount disks
# accessible only by the user who connected them. Base directory is
# "$(DESKTOP)" by default. $(HOME) and $(USER) are also accepted values
# and can be concatenated to specify path to a directory, for example
# "$(HOME)/Shares". Target directory must exist on the system.
#
#DiskSharingPrivateBasePath "$(DESKTOP)"
 
#
# Specify path to base directory where the node has to mount user's
# disks which are accessible to users running a session on that server.
# Base directory is "$(PUBLIC)" by default. $(PUBLIC) is /Volumes on Mac
# OS X, /media on Linux, C:\Users\Public on Windows Vista/7/8 and
# %ALLUSERSPROFILE% on XP. $(USER) is an accepted value and can be
# concatenated to specify path to a directory, for example "/tmp/$(USER)".
# Target directory must exist on the system.
#
#DiskSharingPublicBasePath "$(PUBLIC)" 

On the client side it’s not possible to change the path, but we are going to make it possible in one of the next updates.

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