This is possible, right?

[Supermercado]

Okay, this is what I want to do. I have all of my music stored on my main desktop, which gets secondary use most of the time because it makes my bedroom too hot. I use my laptop primarily for this reason. I also have another machine set up in a different room of the house connected to my other two via wireless. What I'd like to do is store all of my music on the wireless machine (I'll just call it my server from here on in for sake of ease) and have my laptop connect to it so I can listen to my music. I have about 1/4th of my collection stored on the laptop itself right now but the drive isn't big enough to store as much as I'd like.

I know that iTunes is capable of doing what I want to do, but I'm what you'd call "set in my ways" and I'd like to use Winamp to do this if I can. It appears that it might be possible to just add the directory that the files are stored in on the server provided I can get the Windows sharing to allow me to browse to that directory in the Winamp file browser. I've got the sharing enabled on the server but I can't get Winamp to see the server contents. Windows filesharing either, for that matter. I can ping the server from my laptop so I know that the connection is at least there.

Basically, my question is this: is what I want to do possible using Winamp? I could switch to iTunes if necessary but I'd rather stick with Winamp and not have to install extra software, etc. Thanks for reading.

 

[Alptraum]

Have you mapped the server drive? If you do that on your laptop I don't see why it wouldn't work.

 

[Supermercado]

No, I haven't tried that. Trying it now and it's not finding the server drive at all. I'm pretty sure I've enabled sharing, shared the drive, and made sure that there's an exception in the SP2 firewall for the filesharing. I've got an ftp server set up on the server and that's how I usually connect to the server (that or Ultr@VNC), but I've not been able to connect using Windows filesharing yet. I assume that's a necessary step to get the mapped drive to work?

 

[abaez]

try simple file sharing.. i had this same problem and it just worked with simple file sharing and not the advanced one.. and make sure you do it in windows explorer.. i tried to share out of powerdesk and it didnt like it

 

[Supermercado]

Even that's not making a difference. I can still ping it but I can't get the sharing to work. It's refusing to find the server by both IP and and computer name. I even have both the drive and the directory shared out.