First post.

 

I have a HTPC running VISTA Home Premium and My Movies and Theatertek to view my photos and my movie collection on my unraid running 4.2.  It works fine except for a quirk with the S3 energy saving feature on the HTPC (which I know is a touchy thing).  I have the HTPC set to sleep after a short (10 min) idle period. It sleeps just fine after a fresh reboot and  the sleep function works after it wakes up to record TV through my Adaptec tuner. It can go like this happily for days until I access a file on my unraid.  Once I've accessed a movie or picture the unraid there is a nearly constant stream of network activity between the Unraid server and the HTPC at about 0.5-1.0 Mps as seen on Vesta's performance monitor.  The activity continues even after I've stopped viewing a movie or accessing any other file on the server.  I've only let it go on for an hour or so, so I don't know if it will go on forever this way. The disks on the unraid are not being accessed (at least not according to the unraid home page). I'm guessing that this network activity is preventing my HTPC from entering S3 on idle.

 

 

My question is whether the network activity is maintained by VISTA or is the unraid software maintaining the connection and not letting the HTPC go.  One hint if I turn off the server the connection stops for obvious reasons but the HTPC still does not sleep until I reboot it. It is as if some new state is permanently set in the HTPC. Is there some aspect of the unraid server software that would cause this?  I suspect that it's VISTA but I thought I'd ask.

I`ve been suffering similar problem with my HTPC. Does anyone know the solution?

do you access using a mapped drive or direct path?

 

I suspect (in both cases) that Vista is to blame though

 

why would unRAID keep some connection alive

 

 

Yes, I use mapped drive.

 

Should I switch it to direct connection? Would it help?

mapped drive definitely is MORE prone to constant traffic from the windows machine (as it needs to evaluate if the map still works from time to time, else you may have noticed changes the icon to "x")

 

but I suspect even direct path will keep the connection alive, as windows are notorious for keeping things "dirty"

(yet it's better to try this first)

 

 

You could try using MKLINK...  http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/22/create-symbolic-links-hard-links-and-directory-junctions-in-vista-with-mklink/ I have vista and am using MCE and haven't had these problems... (I haven't tried MKLINK yet).

 

I'm going to use MKLINK to record TV shows directly to my unraid server.

 

Erik

Is there no way to accommodate this from the server end.? Lets face it ALL versions of windows are noisy in some way