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You could always just try and tell XBMC where the content is directly.
Instead of configuring Windows to mount X: to \\server\movies, then configuring a source in XBMC as X: drive
TRY:
Configure your source within XBMC to point to smb://server/movies/
This will take out the whole requirement for the OS to reconnect the drive.
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Did the source change work?
*NOTE*
I have used smb://192.168.0.20/Movies
By using the IP this takes out the whole name resolution step, I have setup a DHCP lease for my "Server" so that the IP is always 192.168.0.20
This also helps when you use a multi XBMC setup, and choose to implement a shared MySQL database.
The pre-req is that all sources.xml files look the same.
You cant use smb://server/movies in one setup and smb://192.168.x.x/Movies in another and expect the sharedDB to work correctly.
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You could combine all your movies directories into one using whatever method your OS supports. I have only 2 SMB shares for video - movies and tv. However using mhddfs those shares are actually combining 3 or 4 partitions each. There are similar technologies for windows.
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Well it's up to the server whether it honours links.
I have certainly seen threads on here that describes spanning across multiple partitions/directories on windows, probably in the hardware thread. However I don't care enough about the whole concept of windows as a file to have paid enough attention to find it again.
Definitely not a bust, or else you could try a different OS.
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