New Plugin: Network Drive Reconnector (1 Viewer)

[FreakyJ]

Hi folks,

I'm currently developing a new plugin =) it was pretty nasty that I had to reconnect my network drives manually every time if my main PC wasn't started before the media PC

This little Plugin checks at the start of MP if all drives are connected if not it will try to reconnect.
If there is any drive not connected it will try every 5 minutes to reconnect. After all drives are reconnected it stops trying

In the attachment is the Plugin + source, there is space for improvements (maybe you have some), but it works

Installation:
1. Copy the xml file (NetworkDriveReconnector.xml) from the Skin folder in the archive to your Skin, e.g. MP_USER_FOLDER/Skin/PureVisionHD/ (this file is for PurvisionHD, but should work with ervery skin)
2. Copy the dll file (NetworkDriveReconnector.dll) from the bin/debug or bin/release folder into your window plugin folder from Mediaportal
that's all =)

Notice:
The dll in the archive is in Debug-mode You will find the log file in the MP log folder.

Update
[05.10.2010]
- Updated NetworkDriveReconnector bin 0.2.rar (Skinfile was missing)

Update v 0.2
[24.09.2010]
- removed the force option by mapping the network drive
- saveCreds = true (saves the user data for the networkDrive for the auto-mapping from windows

Download:
At the bottom of the post


Hopefully it will help some more people

 

[MeMeMe]

This is a great idea

 

[ichessblumen]

Great thingy. Could you provide a howto for implementation? After unzipping, I do not know how to get this going.

thx
ieb

 

[FreakyJ]

AW: New Plugin: Network Drive Reconnector

I updated my old post

I have also a new version, I will post it later when I'm at home again =) Sometimes it can happen that your networkdrives get deleted, but with the new version it shouldn't happen again =) Further you can use the old and the new skinfile

If you find any bugs let me know =)

greetings

//EDIT

I added the new Version on the bottom

// Edit2

removed the attachment and moved it to the top

 

[Boiler]

AW: New Plugin: Network Drive Reconnector

this sounds great, but how does it work? where do specifiy my networkdrives???

 

[FreakyJ]

AW: New Plugin: Network Drive Reconnector

Sorry for my late reply, I wasn't at home

It looks which networkdrives already exists and if they are already connected. If they are disconnected, the plugin trys to reconnect as long as it was successful.
That means that you have to map your networkdrives once as persistant in the windowsexplorer

I hope I could help you

Lg

 

[ichessblumen]

hi freaky,

could you please update the first post with your new file .

 

[FreakyJ]

AW: New Plugin: Network Drive Reconnector

I updated my first post and added also a releasversion without so much debug output (in src: debug=false; no DEBUG define), but I still recommend the debug version because it is still in a very early state of development and there could be some problems which I dont know yet^^

 

[ichessblumen]

hi freaky,

I'm with stupid...

"Installation:
1. Copy the xml file from the Skin folder to your Skin (this file is for PurvisionHD, but should work with ervery skin
2. Copy the dll file from the bin/debug folder into your window plugin folder from Mediaportal
that's all =)
"
What xml? I cannot find the xml in any folder after unzipping.
And which file? There are more than one in the debug folder !?
Sorry for stupid questions, but it isnt that easy as you wrote

 

[FreakyJ]

AW: New Plugin: Network Drive Reconnector

sorry again

I updated the insatllation notes and the bin archive, because the skinfile was missing
I hope the installation notes are now correct, because I currently can't access the dirstructure from my HTPC, but I think you will find everything now, if not just ask again =)