Networking Issue

[Gruelius]

Hey everyone

Well for some reason when i try to access the file server computer as such:
\\Fileserver i get a access denied message

If i skip straight to the share \\Fileserver\Share it works fine


I never reallycared untill today when i have to make a mapped network drive for MCE to connect to my shares, is there a way to directly input network adresses for the My Videos section of MCE?

[eepunk]

Personally, I never figured out the whole mapped drive thing in MCE.

Instead I use a simple script at startup to map one of my network shares and that makes all of them available for inclusion in MCE.

The inclusion of "sleep.exe" is because my NIC doesn't seem to initialise correctly immediately at startup. Sleep is available for nothing, just google it.

I think it was Imelda that gave me this script. Apologies if I'm wrong.

sleep 5
net use x: \\computername\share /user:username password

I hope this helps.

E.E.

[Gruelius]

the only problem is, when i have the drives mapped, if i go to MCE and choose My Video's i will get to choose from Y: Disk One Z Disk Two.

If the file sharing worked properly i would see

Family Guy, Futurama, West Wing, Simpsons
e.t.c

i think i will format my fileserver its been slow recently anyway lol

[TiggerK]

Not sure what your fileserver is running, but make sue that your fileserver is set up with an account for the same username and password as your MCE PC is using.

I've got lots of mapped drives, when I go into My Videos, I see various folders, e.g 'D - Music DVD', 'Comedy' etc etc (you name these whatever you like, , I also have an unmapped network drive that appears in My Videos as \\PCNAME\FolderName that's a bit ugly..... best to map them perhaps..

Cheers
TiggerK