Connecting Mezzmo "desktop" to Mezzmo Media Server installed on 2 different machines

[smitbret]

No... at least, I don’t think that will work. The problem is that this needs to be done using network paths from the beginning. To get it to work correctly when you already have a library set up, you would need to remove all the folders from the library, do a library maintenance to remove everything from the playlists (the definitions for smart and active playlists can stay unchanged, but the content has to be removed so it can be re-added referencing network paths), and then start over.

The other thing you have to do is make sure that everything is accessible via network paths. So, if you have some files in "D:\Media\Movies" you must make sure that at least one of "D:\" or "D:\Media" or "D:\Media\Movies" has a network share that is accessible from each machine on which you will want to run the Mezzmo desktop application. For example, let’s assume you have shared "D:\Media" as "ServerMedia" and that your server machine is named HOMESERVER.

Now, when you go to create a "Movies" folder, instead of adding "D:\Media\Movies" you add "\\HOMESERVER\ServerMedia\Movies"; then all computers will see the same thing.

It might work to right-click an existing folder in Mezzmo, select Properties... and change the Folder from a local path to a network path, then run library maintenance; but I have not tried that and I can’t promise that it will work, or that it won’t cause new problems. If you want to try it, I suggest backing up your Mezzmo database first.

Yeah, I had an "A-HA" moment right before you posted this.

I backed up the database and changed the folder location to network instead of local and unfortunately, you do lose the metadata when you do that. Guess I've gotta decide how badly I want to redo it vs. how much I'd like to administer remotely.