March 10, 201214 yr Hi Guys, I'm running a Windows 7 64 Bit based HTPC and I have my shares mapped as network drives. They work perfectly, but disconnect after a long period of inactivity, until I click on them again to "wake" them back up. I fixed this problem by setting the disconnect period something close to 24 hours, however, one problem still remains... When I reboot the computer, the mapped drives are always "disconnected" with Red Xs next to them. They wake up the moment I click on them, but this is problematic if I'm using something like XBMC/HyperSPin. Game video files don't work in HyperSpin until the drive is manually "woken up." Any help would be enormously appreciated! Owen
March 10, 201214 yr I am also running WIN7 Home Premium 64 bit. I have noticed the same behavior on a share that is mapped as a networked drive showing as 'disconnected'. (As a note of full disclosure, this Share Drive is on my FreeNAS server--- I am waiting for ver 5 to come out of beta before purchasing a license.) This particular share is actually an Address Book database that can be accessed from several different computers on my home network. However, I have observed that even if the mapped drive is shown as disconnected in Windows Explorer, the database program can still open the files without any problem. In fact, I just checked the shared drive status in Windows Explorer and found the drive disconnected. I closed Window explorer and open the database on that shared drive with the address book program without an issue. I reopened Windows Explorer and the shared drive was still shown as disconnected. Previous experience with this situation has shown that clicking on the disconnected drive in Windows Explorer will always connected it. I really suspect that it is a problem in Window Explorer not getting the state of the shared drives correct and not refreshing its cache properly. Do try to see if your program has access to the shared drive when it is shown as disconnected. My experience has shown that it will be available and ready for use.
March 10, 201214 yr Or just use the UNC path instead of mounting a drive... works fine on my HTPC and XBMC.
March 10, 201214 yr Or just use the UNC path instead of mounting a drive... works fine on my HTPC and XBMC. +1 you can also put a script in your startup to map the drive with a net use command you must have a drive letter. my living room XBMC is win7 based and it auto logs in, maps the drives and then starts xbmc. I have to shut it down instead of sleep though. With a fast ssd, it is a quick boot.
March 11, 201214 yr Use the UNC path. I've never mapped a network drive and media apps like XBMC, WMC and MediaBrowser have always worked fine for me.
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