Can I use a Network Storage for "Application directory for the virtual host" ?

I am on windows 2003, using a lacie ethernet drive.

I found this post on flash media server 3 documentation, but I guess this is just the same as fms 2.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flashmediaserver/3.0/docs/help.html?content=03_configtasks_35.html#1204240

However, cannot figure out how to implement this. It says:
"A Windows network-mapped drive is not valid when a user is logged out. If the server is running as a service and the user is logged out, the mapped drive is removed as well. To run with the mapped drive, lock the server instead of logging out. Using the UNC path is preferred when the server is running as a service.

1) Stop Flash Media Server and Flash Media Administration Server.
2) Make the changes to the config.
3) Check that the the server user has appropriate access rights to map to the network drive (system account rights are usually not sufficient.)
4) Restart Flash Media Server and Flash Media Administration Server."

What does "lock the server" really means?
What are the changes to the config in point 2?
Which server user is requested on point 3?

Thanks in advance to everyone.

Hi stoem,

my problem is a bit different: just need to point the streamdir in vhost to a network drive. It doesn't appear to work, neither using the ip address nor via the share folder name.

Does anyone knows a workaround for this?

FMS 2.0.4

I would not use drive letters to map but use IP address instead, that seems to work. You may also want to check out my article here:
http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2007/12/12/Configuring-FMS-on-OSX-using-Parallels

Regards,

Stefan

I have same issue:
Tried reassigning the AppsDir in VHosts; entry in core.00.log reports 'Application Directory does not exist'
Tried reassigning <StorageDir> in Application.xml; it fails silently.