Vista to Vista share problem

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I have a PC with all my movie shares running Vista Ultimate 64bit.... I have been playing with XBMC for awhile now on a laptop running WinXP Pro hooked up to my Tv and decided to go all out an build a dedicated HTPC...

Anyway I have Vista Ultimate 32bit on my new HTPC, installed the latest XBMC and when I try to add a video source and browse for network shares I get an error with a long number (I'm at work right now and don't have the number available) and basically I can't see any shares/PC's on the network.... even if I punch them in by ip address... Windows can see out and connect on the net fine.

This all happened right before I had to go to work so I didn't get too much time to mess with it but after playing with XBMC on a few Pc's at work and other places I have never had that same problem pop-up.... But then again its the first time I installed XBMC on a Vista box and trying to connect to another Vista box... XP to Vista works great... but I just wanted to see if there are any Vista bugs I should be weary about in terms of seeing network shares...

Keep up the good work devs... this product has come a long way since my first modded Xbox back in the day ;) After years of saying "one day" I finally have the motivation to rip all my dvd's...

[errrrrl]

After reading lots of old post I think i know what is wrong... I mapped my movie drive as Z:... then i came across a post mentioning the internal drive letters XBMC uses... im guessing if I get rid of that mapped drive as Z then maybe my network shares will work... i hope it works

Q: is the application root
U: is the user root (For Win32 I've always seen this the same as Q. I think only linux makes use of this since its a concurrent multi-user os. Skins and stuff are checked from both these locations.)
P: is the current user's profile location
T: is the master user's profile location
Z: is the cache location

These drive mappings occur in Application.cpp, but they may be referenced elsewhere. (Though I agree with you. These drive mappings are a carry over from the original Xbox version and should be deprecated eventually for full paths.)

[rock99rock]

After reading lots of old post I think i know what is wrong... I mapped my movie drive as Z:... then i came across a post mentioning the internal drive letters XBMC uses... im guessing if I get rid of that mapped drive as Z then maybe my network shares will work... i hope it works

That is exactly the problem :) I once had that issue.

Now to just find out how to avoid the "Could not reconnect to network drives" at startup.