[meimeiriver]

Same issue here. Except that SMB does *not* work like a charm. When Windows boots, you invariably get 'Unable to connect all network driives' error (I presume because the network hasn't initialized yet, and Windoze is too dumb to wait for it to be done). So, you need to use the file explorer and manually click on each of them to reconnect them again, or XBMC can't see them.

Don't be blaming Windoze - XBMC is what's not properly waiting for the connection, or rather, for some reason don't (or don't wait for) the network connection to be established. I can think of quite a few apps that can access network shares, and while most don't handle threading properly (i.e. 'Not Responding' bugs), they all work once the connection is established.

Much as I'd like to blame XBMC - *g* - it's really Windoze that's at fault here. It boots with the infamous "Unable to reconnect all network drives" at startup. XBMC can't help that (in fact, XBMC can't even see the SMB's 'connect' status: it just sees the defined drive). Once I have double-clicked on the SMB drive, in the File Explorer, XBMC can access it too.

(Uing gpedit.msc) I found a partial workaround for SMB drives, adding a Logon script like this:

"C:\special\MapDrive.exe" W: "\\192.168.75.81\Twonky" 20

That has Windows retry and wait (for 20 secs max, in this case) to connect to the SMB drive. Works flawlessly, but the prog sadly does not support passworded SMB drives.

TwonkyMedia sounds interesting, I'll have to look into that. Also, since this is such an old thread, maybe it's worth re-trying UPnP - the more recent builds of XBMC might handle it better.

Sadly, UPnP still (since 2008) seems unsupported for video library scrapers. Which still baffles me. Especially since music scrapers can access the UPnP drives just fine. And why not, even?! All the video scraper needs is a (properly formatted) movie file-name; and it can find that on the UPnP drive.