Losing Network Video File Location

[sty151]

Hello,

My HTPC with Windows 7 display's "no videos found" in GameEx after a restart of Windows. The video files I'm pointing to are on a separate networked computer, but I've mapped a path to the folders in Windows and pointed GameEx to the correct folders. If I go back into GameEx configuration the paths are there and if I add them again GameEx finds the files until a restart is done. GameEx can find my games and music (they are also in the same networked location). This is the first time I've really tried to use GameEx as my front end on my HTPC. I'd played around with it several times on previous versions of my HTPC and I remember this setup worked with XP but maybe not working with Vista. It's probably a permission in Window's or setting in GameEx I'm missing. Anyone have any advice?

Thanks in advance

[Tom Speirs]

Have you tried using UNC paths? e.g \\server\share\folder.

[Brian Hoffman]

I would also have to ask if when you do try and access the files after a reboot, does it require authentication?

[sty151]

Have you tried using UNC paths? e.g \\server\share\folder.

No, and before a quick google search didn't know what UNC stood for. But I'll search some more and figure out how to get the UNC path and try it. Thanks.

[sty151]

I would also have to ask if when you do try and access the files after a reboot, does it require authentication?

No, I have no password protection between my network shares. I can just reboot, open My Computer, double click on the mapped drive and have access to it.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah, thats a common problem with accessing mapped drives with .net. A UNC path should hopefully fix the issue. The UNC path is basically the path that your drive mapping is mapped to, but you access it directly without the mapping.

[sty151]

Success. I changed one of my video file locations to UNC (you can find a networked drive's path in Window's 7 as a column choice in Explorer) as a test. Restarted the computer and all of the folders showed up in GameEx. Didn't even have to change them all. Thanks for your help. Now I'm going to set up some streaming sites through GameEx, group some PC games and check out some of the new themes and GameEx should be my one stop GUI for my HTPC. Great Program!

[Tom Speirs]

Nice to get some positive Did you vote at BYOAC?

Edited August 17, 2012 by Draco1962
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