Mediaportal does not automatically connect to network drives (1 Viewer)

[the_mouse]

Hi,

I use a central storage server for all music/video files and have the drives mapped to all PC's in the house. When XP boots it reconnects to the drives. I have mediaportal autostart but to access any movies I have to exit, open the drive in explorer then restart mediaportal. It there a way to force Mediaportal to open the drive on its own it is starting to get very annoying. Thanks

 

[x4mer]

Increase the startup delay in the general section. Windows is probably still trying to mount the drives when MP loads. If it ends up needing too long of a delay to wait for the drives to be ready, then set MP to use UNC paths instead of drive letters.

 

[the_mouse]

I tried the startup delay but it did not work, will try your other suggestion. Thanks

 

[charli181]

Increase the startup delay in the general section. Windows is probably still trying to mount the drives when MP loads. If it ends up needing too long of a delay to wait for the drives to be ready, then set MP to use UNC paths instead of drive letters.

I use unc connections myself and have the same problem where MP auto starts but will not read the network drives until I shut it down and restart it.

I have all my databases in a central server location on the network as well and these can't be read the first time MP starts up and defaults to the local c drive. NOTE:- I don't have to access the drive before restarting MP though.
Another thing I found was if I turned off auto start in MP and then added the icon to the startup folder within XP, if a rebooted the whole machine, it would see the drives no problems but when I turn the machine off overnight, in the morning, it will not see the drives again until I restart MP.. strange

 

[riadmelb]

I had same problem and fixed it by creating same username and password on both server (win xp) and client (win xp).

 

[charli181]

I have done that but still no go. My Server (contains all Databases and thumbs) is Win2003 Server Standard Edition.

 

[luksmann]

There's a handy little tool called NetworkDriveManager, which was still free a few years ago - now there's only a pay-version of this programm. It connects all network drives and also reestablishes the connection in case it gets lost!

Link:
Suncross

greets, luksmann

 

[the_mouse]

That is now a pay for program, I dont want anymore TSR's especially just to make a network connection live. I was hoping the developers could make mediaportal establish the connection itself. I think windows automatically makes the drive unavailable till it is used and after a period of time of inactivity mark it as unavailable again.

I did a google search for NetworkDriveManager104 which was the free version. Hope it does the trick for now.

 

[zebons]

XP keep the drives mappings but doen't reconnect the network drives.
You can see it by typing a net view command in a DOS Windows, you'll see that no letter drive is given for mappings.
net view \\server
For my use, I write a little batch command file (launched at XP restart) with commands like :

net use W: /DELETE
net use W: \\Sever\Movie

It works for me. I can use the Drive W in MP after XP restart.