[lorden]

Hello,

I installed the watchdog and added a file in my movies but it didn't get picked up.

My server is a slackware linux based server
My frontend is openelec

I am using Samba for sharing

In the videos "Files" I have the SMB mounted and selected.

I did a tail on the xbmc.log file and put another file and absolutely nothing turned up. Your help would be appreciated.

Have you selected polling as method in addon settings? This is required for remote file systems. Also, the shares must be mounted in os.

Thanks, I had a feeling it was that.

I read in your other posts that polling puts a strain on the hard drive. The Frontend drive or the server drive?

I have a server with 8 hard drives and they are spun down when not in use. The directory structure is cached and when i request to access a folder the right drive wakes up as oppose to all of them, I imagine this polling will keep the drives up all the time?