MediaMVP access to network drives

[michaelbyrne]

I have installed GBPVR on an old laptop with a 40 GB hard drive. It has Windows XP Home upgraded to SP3. This is a new installation this week, and is my first attempt at this.

I am using a WinTV-PVR-USB2 tuner with a MediaMVP for access to my TV. The MediaMVP is ethernet connected to my wireless router and my GBPVR server laptop talks to the router wirelessly.

Everything works great as far as TV viewing, recording, schedules, etc.

My problem lies with accessing music, picture and video files that are on my main laptop (not on the GBPVR server) via my network.

I am avoiding keeping my 10 GB of music files on my GBPVR server, since it has only 25 GB of free space for video recording, so I am attempting to access these remotely across the network.

I have defined these directories in GBPVR config and everything works great when I access the network directories using PVRX2. But, when I use the MediaMVP to select the network directory, and click OK, the screen just blinks and fails to open the directory.

As I say, I can successfully play music and videos and display pictures from the network drive using PVRX2, which would indicate that all my permissions and network configuration are set correctly.

Also, when I define directories on the GBPVR server, I can successfully navigate local directories and launch pictures and music from the local machine using the MediaMVP.

So it seems that the Open Directory request from the MediaMVP seems to fail when the directory is on a network drive.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for a great product!

Michael

[michaelbyrne]

Further research found the answer for me:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ht=network

I really did try to find an answer before I posted, but couldn't quite put together the correct search terms.

Thanks for being here!

Michael

[martint123]

Thanks for that - I think I would be heading into that situation in the coming weeks.

p.s. For awkward searches or those with short words that the forum doesn't seem to lie, I've found google has index the site quite well - like
mvp network access site:forums.gbpvr.com

Hmmm which throws up this possible problem........ http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?p=263515

Martin