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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1284957" data-attributes="member: 18896">Yup, and the reason why mine does the 30sec ping-wait (it's instant if it responds) to my Samba share server is indeed to ensure it is awake/up/available, because for me there is no point in continuing with MediaPortal if it's offline under normal conditions, and can use a different shortcut to launch MediaPortal if needing to bypass.And if you have a mixture of shares/drives with different content then Moving-Pictures and MP-TVSeries will simply flag the media in 'orange' to show the offline status. The key is to ensure that both plugins don't think you deleted the media and thereby updating themselves to remove their respective database entries.Now MP-TVSeries is easy, because you can use map Samba shares locally. I use &quot;\\HTPC\F$\TV Shows&quot; for example to link to a local harddisk, but MovPic will detect that this is a local drive with volume serial number and overwrite the share. To fix that you have to use NTFS folder mapping or symbolic links.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 1284957, member: 18896"] Yup, and the reason why mine does the 30sec ping-wait (it's instant if it responds) to my Samba share server is indeed to ensure it is awake/up/available, because for me there is no point in continuing with MediaPortal if it's offline under normal conditions, and can use a different shortcut to launch MediaPortal if needing to bypass. And if you have a mixture of shares/drives with different content then Moving-Pictures and MP-TVSeries will simply flag the media in 'orange' to show the offline status. The key is to ensure that both plugins don't think you deleted the media and thereby updating themselves to remove their respective database entries. Now MP-TVSeries is easy, because you can use map Samba shares locally. I use "\\HTPC\F$\TV Shows" for example to link to a local harddisk, but MovPic will detect that this is a local drive with volume serial number and overwrite the share. To fix that you have to use NTFS folder mapping or symbolic links. [/QUOTE]

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