Local network over a windows share

The simplest and recommended way to serve the videos in a local network is to use a Windows SMB file share.

This is how the default installation will automatically be setup.

To setup a share that is different from the default installation simply share the folder, and provide the root folder to the server video folder mapped to the windows share. The meta editing and video uploads will be handled by the server and the video playback through the windows share. If the share is disabled users can still view and edit the catalog but not view videos or photos.

The format of a windows share is [\\[computer name or IP]\[share name]\ ]This is what you should add for \"Shared Video/Actor/Photo root\"

Note that the root drive letters are normally shared as the implicit admin shares i.e the c drive is shared as c\$.

You can find what is shared on the computer from the command line by entering \"net share\"