[Resolved] Is it possible to share folders on an external HD that is connected to the laptop with UMS

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jxm416
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[Resolved] Is it possible to share folders on an external HD that is connected to the laptop with UMS

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I have a laptop running ubuntu 20.04 LTS that has UMS 10.13.0 and I have an external hard drive connected to the laptop via usb with 200+ gb of movie files. When I go to shared content tab to select which folders on my computer to share I am only able to see my computer folders under /home/.

Is it possible to directly share a folder on my external hard drive or do I need to transfer a file from my external hard drive to a designated shared folder on my internal hard drive every time I wish to view a movie on a different device?

My internal hard drive does not have the space to hold all of the files I would like to have available.

**Update**
The external drive was not visible through UMS gui in /mnt or /media. The solution for me was to do the following in terminal

$mousepad ~/.config/[insert user]/UMS/UMS.conf

in mousepad, in the rows "folders" and "folders_monitored" I added the file path to the external hard drive. saved the UMS.conf file and restarted UMS. The problem was likely do to the method of installation which has ums owned by root instead of by user, but this worked and I can access external hard drive files on other devices.
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Re: Is it possible to share folders on an external HD that is connected to the laptop with UMS

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It should be possible. Just add that drive in the shared content tab
I know very little about linux, but I recently tried Mint on an old laptop and found that drives are not given letters like windows.
Instead they mounted in a directory, I think it was home/media/<drive> and you should be able to share that way.
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Re: Is it possible to share folders on an external HD that is connected to the laptop with UMS

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Where drives are mounted vary between systems. I often look under /mnt first.
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