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alexballas / go2tv

Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs.
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Playing from NAS folder (SMB share) on MacOS #67

Closed michael-wenyon closed 1 year ago

michael-wenyon commented 1 year ago

Go2TV GUI on MacOS, the graphic file browser does not let me 'see' my NAS server or its folders (SMB sharing).

To see it in the MacOS finder I make invisible folders visible and the sharepoint can be found in the /Volumes folder. But in the Go2TV file browser the 'Computer' does not have a visible /Volumes folder, and I don't see a way to make it visible. How can I get to the files I want to play on my NAS?

alexballas commented 1 year ago

Hello @michael-wenyon,

That's strange. The file picker should have access to the /Volumes folder. I'm not a Mac user myself so I can't confirm this behavior right away. Can you please also double check that you provided all the required permissions to the application? Please refer to https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-access-to-files-and-folders-on-mac-mchld5a35146/mac

Thanks, Alex

michael-wenyon commented 1 year ago

Screenshot 2023-04-04 at 12 06 46 PM These are all activated in Privacy & Security>Files and Folders

Screenshot 2023-04-04 at 12 08 50 PM Through 'Computer' I can browse to /Volumes, but there does not appear to be anything there. In MacOS, the /Volumes directory is hidden by some special method to normal users: you can see it (and its contents) in Finder with 'Show HIdden' but it does not have a dot at the start of its name.

I don't have the same problem in Linux, where my 'media' share is mounted in /media image

By the way, I did not mean to close this topic, it was an accident.

alexballas commented 1 year ago

can you please ls /Volumes in the terminal and share the output?

michael-wenyon commented 1 year ago

Screenshot 2023-04-04 at 12 23 38 PM

Don't know what is going on here, but there are three 'copies' of the server shares with '-1' added to their names, and I don't have list permission.

alexballas commented 1 year ago

The "media" folder seems to have all the right permissions, so it should show up. Could it be that it's taking some time to load? If you run go2tv from the terminal, do you get any errors when trying to list he /Volumes content?

michael-wenyon commented 1 year ago

I don't have a CLI for Go2TV on MacOS, only the GUI.

michael@grey ~ % go2tv
zsh: command not found: go2tv

I have waited several minutes for /Volumes to load in the GUI, still empty. I discovered the 'show hidden files' checkbox under the gear wheel, checked it, but nothing more is revealed (that is, /Volumes is empty).

NickDunas commented 1 year ago

I just created a shared folder on my windows 10 PC and I can see the folder and all sub-folders just fine through go2tv.

alexballas commented 1 year ago

Resolving as we could not replicate this.