Hey folks. I found the MSS.net forums a few months ago while poring through Damian's excellent guide to using BluRip. I've been lurking since and thought that I'd post up.
Desiring to go mostly discless (reduce clutter), improve system usability for the family, and feed my inner geek, I began researching ripping and streaming media. I built an AMD quadcore PC to encode video (storage may be cheap these days but it still ain't free) and bought a Dune Base 3.0. I streamed videos off the PC using Zappiti for a few months and life was good, but I knew all along that I was headed for a real server.
Already having most of the necessary hardware, I ordered WHS and a larger case from the Egg and built TREADSTONE. A couple of photos are attached. In the 2nd photo you can see the four storage drives with a meager 7TB of storage with the small system drive above. Pretty lame by some of the standards here but I guess we all have to start somewhere. The server is ripping Master And Commander as I type this, and I can use my desktop for other tasks. Pretty sweet.
So that's my story. I'm looking forward to sticking around and learning a lot more!
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The problem was that I had Zappiti installed on the same machine as my video collection. When I would browse to set the sharepath, the location would default to E:\ etc., etc. I tried spoofing it by manually typing the network path, but Windows (or Zappiti) didn't like that presumably because the files were actually on the same PC. And I couldn't figure out how to use the drive letter in the folder and rewrite absolute paths. I tried everything that I could think of, including using a dune_txt. folder to give the drive a name. Nothing worked. I ended up moving Zappiti to another PC on the network so that I could use your example as a template. It worked on the first try. 