Windows MCE and aliases
Posted: 2008-07-28 03:48
through our testing i have been able to determine that MCE will not accept an alias to any folder if the home directory is anything other than the drive containing the operating system.
this thread is a new problem found from a different thread, there was a post in that thread from the user 'da chicken' that would seem to be extremely helpful, but that thread has already been removed, i would appreciate it if someone could get me that post at least.
i will be doing a side by side comparison of the system services (default install settings) between MCE and XP PRO to see if the culprit is obviously in that location, UNLESS someone has some suggestions or previous experience with this.
i'll post if i find anything unusual, thanks for the help!
oops, i meant for this to be in the general forum, could you move this please?
this was suggested:
this thread is a new problem found from a different thread, there was a post in that thread from the user 'da chicken' that would seem to be extremely helpful, but that thread has already been removed, i would appreciate it if someone could get me that post at least.
i will be doing a side by side comparison of the system services (default install settings) between MCE and XP PRO to see if the culprit is obviously in that location, UNLESS someone has some suggestions or previous experience with this.
i'll post if i find anything unusual, thanks for the help!
oops, i meant for this to be in the general forum, could you move this please?
this was suggested:
but all the drives are new and formatted with this machine, some ntfs, a couple are not.da chicken wrote:Just about everything that runs prior to logon is executed by the SYSTEM account. Yes, there's a password. No, you can't get it or use it anywhere. It's a very special account like Administrator, Guest, and Network Service are.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120929
If your H: drive is NTFS and was formatted by another PC or otherwise has been removed and reconnected to the system (such as if it is USB) then the SYSTEM account might not have proper access rights. This may be difficult to determine on Media Center Edition since the security model is a bit different (for example, MCE XP cannot join a domain like XP Home, but it's still based off of XP Pro). Try creating a service account for FileZilla Server to run under and granting explicit access to the file system locations.