Rclone v1.37 release

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

The issue appears to be the fact that drives created as Administrator are not visible by other accounts (including the account that was elevated as Administrator). So if you start a Windows drive from an Administrative Command Prompt and then try to access the same drive from Explorer (which does not run as Administrator), you will not be able to see the new drive.

The easiest way around this is to start the drive from a normal command prompt. It is also possible to start a drive from the SYSTEM account (using the WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure) which creates drives accessible from everyone on the system.

Thanks for that - I’ll put that in the docs.

[rpgdev]

Can this release be used to communicate with ACD like that alpha you released a while ago?

[David_M]

so… i’ve been using plexdrive for a bit after some bans, but would like to switch back to pure rclone…

is there some way i could set with the new --tpslimit and --tpslimit-burst, to keep from getting google drive bans?

thanks

[amaklp]

OMG ncw I love you. I really, really, appreciate your work on this!!!

[FoGBaV]

Windows mounting runs very good and very fast for me - especialy dir list is fast as hell … very cool …

One Question : did someone manage to “share” the mounted drive LEtter under Windows ?

It brings up an error - ressource not available …

Any hint on that one ? 8)

Would be a great thing to share the ressource over SMB with Kodi … 8)

Greetings

[billziss-gh (Bill Zissimopoulos)]

@FoGBaV In general it is possible to share a drive created by WinFsp. However I have not tried this with rclone mount; it may be that rclone mount does not implement some necessary operation.

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

Can this release be used to communicate with ACD like that alpha you released a while ago?

Yes it can. You just need to use the amazon proxy linked to (indirectly) from the docs.

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

so… i’ve been using plexdrive for a bit after some bans, but would like to switch back to pure rclone…

is there some way i could set with the new --tpslimit and --tpslimit-burst, to keep from getting google drive bans?

If you search on the forum for --tpslimit you’ll find a thread where people have been experimenting with just that.

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

In general it is possible to share a drive created by WinFsp. However I have not tried this with rclone mount; it may be that rclone mount does not implement some necessary operation.

More than likely! Is there a doc about what needs to be done?

[billziss-gh (Bill Zissimopoulos)]

I have thought a bit more about this and I am thinking that the real reason for the encountered error may again be related to the drive namespace issue that we discussed earlier.

I seem to recall that Windows cannot share a local drive (i.e. one that is only visible to the current user). The likely reason is that NetShareAdd requires administrator privileges. Recall that an elevated user sees a different drive namespace than the same user without administrator privileges.

The only way to make this work is to make the drive run under the SYSTEM account; drives created by the SYSTEM account are globally visible. Such a drive would also have to be a “disk” drive, “network” drives cannot be shared (I think). Rclone mount creates “disk” drives by default.

So it is doable, but the procedure is not documented (or easy).

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

So it is doable, but the procedure is not documented (or easy).

Thanks for that Bill. If anyone does achieve it then can they write it up in the rclone wiki and I can link from the mount docs.