Accessing Shared Drive Over the Network

[Elmo Putney]

I have a small but irritating issue, I use my office PC for some PVRing and downloading video, it dumps it all onto a seperate shared drive in the office PC.

Downstairs I have my GBPVR rig with the aforementioned shared drive mapped to Z: or similar and I have one of the Video folders in config pointing to Z:.

Quite often in PVRX2 when I navigate to Videos then try to drill down into the Z: drive it does nothing, (like Z: doesnt exist). The easy way I have found to fix this is to alt-enter back to windows and then navigate to Z: in explorer, once this is done once I can close explorer and then browse Z: withn PVRX2 quite happily.

2 things I can think of thay may be contributing to this:

The Drive in the office machine has power saving swithced on, and as its not the drive with the OS on it regularly spins down. Maybee gbpvr doesnt send the right request to spin it up, or retry often enough (as you can see I am clueless on this stuff)

The only other thing is that upsatirs is XP pro x64, and downstairs is XP home, I seem to recall using the standard (typical) network settings when I installed them both, as a result one is part of domain MSworkgroup the other is on MShome. Could this be causing it????

Thanks all

[martint123]

I think I remember reading that you have to refer to network drives with their UNC rather than a locally mapped drive letter. i.e not Z:\movies but \\myshare\movies

Martin

[Elmo Putney]

Ohhh, I'll give that a go.



What he said ^^^ fixes the issue.

Thanks a million