What kind of drives and media can I catalog? Can I catalog my remote file server, or external hard drive connected by wireless network?
WhereIsIt can access and catalog any drive or other media that is capable of presenting itself in Explorer with a drive letter, or can be accessed as a part Windows network with its UNC address. While a vast majority of drives being cataloged will likely be accessed locally on the system itself, using this open and generic approach rather than implementing a number of protocols allows access to any number of current and future devices without the need to add support for them in future versions of WhereIsIt. For example, you can catalog a number of non-Windows remote network drives, like Unix/Linux servers, by using Samba (www.samba.org). You can catalog a remote FTP or WebDAV server, or a remote external hard drive, connected to a nework router or a home theater device and accessed via FTP or SMB, by using software driver like NetDrive (www.netdrive.net). And so on… Typically, to access a non-native device you only need some sort of a driver or software that will allow Windows to acc
