I also tried InSync, but for a terabyte of data in 100's of thousands of small files, downloading 2 files at a time would take WEEKS. (subst, mklink) It kept seeing the UNC path through the mask.
I tried using different ways to try and fool the sync program into thinking it was not a UNC path. I tried changing the credentials that windows uses to map the drive. I tried going into the folder properties through explorer and changing the ownership, and setting permissions to full control. But I tried some permissions tweaks anyways. That didn't work either, so I concluded that it wasn't a permissions problem, but perhaps Google updated the sync program to flat out reject UNC paths. I tried connecting to the share as Administrator and then running sync as an administrator. I was clearly able to write to the folder through explorer. I kept getting the message that the folder is not writable.
#SYNC FOLDERS OUTSIDE OF GOOGLE DRIVE UPDATE#
HOWEVER, something happened with an update somewhere and it stopped working.
Several months back, I set the share permissions to "Everyone" on the Drobo dashboard, and I was able to set that share's mapped drive as the Google Drive root folder in the past. I have a Drobo and have some shares mapped as windows drive letters. I'll also run down the things I have tried that didn't work so that people can be spared the time to try these things. I am pretty sure I have found a working solution. It works for BOTH iPad, and laptop users! Love It! And Tech staff has all their stuff separate too. I simply place files in their respective folders, and sales has all the sales/marketing brochures, videos, pdf, spreadsheets, etc. There are two sub-folders, one for Sales and the other for tech staff. I have all the sales and technical staff using Drop Box, and subscribed to the Network Shared folder.
You'll now see those files on Google Drive. Go to any client that's connected to the network share, navigate to the new sub-folder you just created, and place files in it.
#SYNC FOLDERS OUTSIDE OF GOOGLE DRIVE INSTALL#
Maybe the same method will work for Google (I haven't tried yet).ġ) Log in on the CONSOLE of the file server (that is hosting the network share/folder).Ģ) Install Google Drive (I installed DropBox).ģ) Set the location of the Google Drive to be in a sub-folder of the network share (on the physical drive of the server that you've just installed it on).Ĥ) Use the Google Drive account to share the Google Drive as appropriate. You can sync a network folder with DropBox.
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