"Watch My Import Folders" locking access to Samba Server (1 Viewer)

[Cetra]

I recently built a media server running Unraid which basically uses Samba usershares. I've been having issues of losing connectivity to those user shares and the ability to browse the server from the network folder. I've narrowed down the issue to making use of the feature Watch My Import Folders For Changes Automatically.

If I enable this feature, as soon as I start Media Portal I lose the ability to browse to the media server by typing \\<mediaserver_name> in Windows Explorer however I am able to still browse the folder structure withing My TVSeries but only for a short time. As I browse more folders I lose this ability and My TVSeries begins to lock up as its unable to retrieve the folder information from the server.

As soon as I shut down Media Portal I regain total access to the media server shares. Also if I start up My TVSeries with this feature disabled I do not run into this issue.

I've tried various version of My TvSeries and removed mediainfo.dll to rule out that being the issue.

I'm really not sure if this problem stems from media portal, Unraid, or Samba itself however the root cause seems to be this functionality.

How exactly does My TVSeries listen for changes? Is it opening and locking a port that Samba and Vista might need for network browsing? Has anyone else ran into this issue before and resolved it?

 

[trevor]

How exactly does My TVSeries listen for changes? Is it opening and locking a port that Samba and Vista might need for network browsing? Has anyone else ran into this issue before and resolved it?

Cant really answer the question but had funny issues with Samba so moved to iSCSI (SourceForge.net: Files) works really well on a CentOS 5.2 server, share out a 1TB lun accessed by Vista's iSCSI initiator, lose all that drive mapping stuff and get a what look like a local disk to vista.

Trevor

 

[Cetra]

Hi I'm still running into this issue. Is anyone having any issues with using the "Watch My Import Folders" with the files being present on a Samba user share?

I am unable to access my server from Windows explorer when the MP-TvSeries plug in is running and watching the import folders. I'm still able to ping the server during this time using both the ip address and hostname and as soon as I terminate Media Portal the server immediately becomes accessible through Windows Explorer again.

 

[chillibeans]

Samba Timeout

Havn't Used samba in years, Used to have this problem in a comercial setup, The fix then was to NOT to do \\servername\share, The fix was \\IP-NUMBER\Share, Sounds stupid I know but it work like a charm about 3years ago, was something to do with windows, Thought it would of been fixed by now if that is your problem.

 

[Cetra]

Wow! That did resolve it. I've spent the past few weeks reading message board posts, trying various Samba and Windows configurations and even went out and bought some new Cat6 cable.

Thank you so much for putting an end to my anguish. I think I'll fill out a bug report and see if this is a specific issue to Media Portal.