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<blockquote data-quote="krikkit" data-source="post: 933430" data-attributes="member: 82860">you mapped the drive a &quot;normal&quot; user and not as &quot;admin&quot; user... if you start mediaportal config you will get an prompt from UAC...you click yes... mediaportal config is running in &quot;admin&quot; mode... and does not see mapped drives of a &quot;normal&quot; user:&nbsp;fix1: In any case, there is a way to force Windows to make the network drives available to both the standard and administrator accounts automatically. All you need to do is run Registry Editor (regedit.exe), locate the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System, and create a new DWORD entry with the name EnableLinkedConnections and value 1 ...reboot... done&nbsp;fix 2: disable UAC (not recommended!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="krikkit, post: 933430, member: 82860"] you mapped the drive a "normal" user and not as "admin" user... if you start mediaportal config you will get an prompt from UAC...you click yes... mediaportal config is running in "admin" mode... and does not see mapped drives of a "normal" user: fix1: [FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#333333]In any case, there is a way to force Windows to make the network drives available to both the standard and administrator accounts automatically. All you need to do is run Registry Editor (regedit.exe), locate the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System, and create a new DWORD entry with the name [/COLOR][/FONT][B][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#333333]EnableLinkedConnections[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#333333] and value [/COLOR][/FONT][B][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#333333]1 ...reboot... [/COLOR][/FONT][/B]done fix 2: disable UAC (not recommended!) [/QUOTE]

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