Unable to use mapped Network Drives?

[jmaytum]

I'm using Windows XP SP2 and have two drives mapped from my main computer to my HTPC that runs BTV, Beyond Media, Firefly yada yada.

When I try to use those mapped drives (one for music, the other for digital photos) Beyond Media allows me to select the drive, however once I select "Music" the UI does nothing. It's like it can't see the drive.

I browse to the drive using windows explorer and it works fine.

Is there an issue with mapped network drives and Beyond Media?

Thanks in advance,

Julian

[jkoon]

No, I have been able to use them with out any problem

[tjstraz]

I have noticed the same thing. What I have done as a work around, is go to the file explorer and open the mapped drives and then close file explorer. I open BM again and I can see the drives. Wierd. I am using SP2.

Tim

[jkoon]

So perhaps this is an issue similar to this with BTV (see RobertH's comments)

http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17299&highlight=networked+drive

[tjstraz]

That's a fine piece of information. Thank you jkoon.

[hades]

What I've done in the past is set up something to run automatically and execute the following command using a hidden window:

net use d: \\Server\ShareName (file://\ServerShareName)

It reconnects the drive just fine and then all the files are accessible... The window doesn't interrupt anything since it's hidden and runs in 1 second.

hades