{"id":86,"date":"2006-04-02T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T10:31:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:48:58","slug":"accessing_shared_drives_from_media_centr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/accessing_shared_drives_from_media_centr\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessing shared drives from Media Centre Extender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently bought an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/xbox\/\">XBox 360<\/a> to use as a Media Centre Extender with my main MCE living room PC, I was dismayed to find that my network drives were not accessible when using the extender.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of research showed that this is a consequence of how the MCE Extenders connect using the Remote Desktop capability of Windows XP &#8211; mapped drive letters are only accessible under the username they are created under, and the extender has its own separate user account (usually MCX1).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the password for that account is not available. However, there is a simple workaround. The <a href=\"http:\/\/dotchris.net\/?p=6\">original description<\/a> came from Chris Lotter&#8217;s Blog, but I&#8217;ve reproduced the important details here for easy reference.<\/p>\n<p>To make mapped drives visible under Windows Media Centre Extender, you need to follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Map the drive as usual on your main Media Centre account, and configure Media Centre to search for media on that drive<\/li>\n<li>Create a new folder called C:\\Netlogon<\/li>\n<li>Share that folder publically with the share name &#8220;Netlogon&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Create a file called LOGON.BAT in C:\\Netlogon which looks similar to this:\n<pre><tt>\r\n@echo off\r\necho Mounting remote network drives...\r\nnet use m: \\\\192.168.100.20\\MP3     \/user:world\\eddy.carroll mypassword\r\nnet use p: \\\\192.168.100.20\\PHOTOS  \/user:world\\eddy.carroll mypassword\r\nnet use v: \\\\192.168.100.20\\DVD     \/user:world\\eddy.carroll mypassword\r\n<\/tt><\/pre>\n<p>Replace &#8216;world&#8217; with your workgroup name, &#8216;eddy.carroll&#8217; with your server account name, and &#8216;mypassword&#8217; with your server account password.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management and open the Local Users &amp; Groups -> Users folder. Double-click the MCX1 user, select the Profile tab, and set the Logon Script name to &#8216;logon.bat&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;re now done. Simply disconnect and reconnect your Extender, and it should now be able to see all the media on your mapped drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently bought an XBox 360 to use as a Media Centre Extender with my main MCE living room PC, I was dismayed to find that my network drives were not accessible when using the extender. A bit of research showed that this is a consequence of how the MCE Extenders connect using the Remote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/accessing_shared_drives_from_media_centr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Accessing shared drives from Media Centre Extender<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}