SMB disconnect, intermittent, random

[Dynastar]

Hey,

I’ve been using WiiMC for the last week or so and have noticed a recurring problem, but am having difficulties accurately reproducing it intentionally. I am streaming xvid encoded avi files over SMB from a Windows 7 laptop. Normally this works fine, sometimes for hours at a time, but every so often, and for no apparent reason, I get disconnected with the message:

Error: Error opening smb1:/

If I hit Retry I get “Please Wait: Connecting to network share”, before “Error: Failed to connect to network share”

At this point I have to restart WiiMC and I can access the SMB share first time, no problem. Sometimes the problem reoccurs within minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes not at all.

I have checked the event viewer on the laptop and can’t find anything at the times of disconnects except for an event 4634 from “Microsoft Windows security auditing.” which is simply:

 "This event is generated when a logon session is destroyed. It may be positively correlated with a logon event using the Logon ID value. Logon IDs are only unique between reboots on the same computer."

I don’t think there’s anything going wrong at the laptop end and that this is just the normal event that is fired when a SMB connection is ended (I could be wrong).

I enabled debug logging in WiiMC in the hope that I’d get something there, but the logfile seems to contain only buffer contents, i.e.:

buffer1: 

=================================

buffer2: 

Is there any way to make the logfile more verbose, or any other tests I could run to try and narrow down the cause of this? Or is it maybe something someone has seen before?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

[cadbusca]

@tanGee wrote:

I enabled debug logging in WiiMC

How do you do that? I’m unaware of any WIIMC logging capability.

[Dynastar]

@jhb50 wrote:

@tanGee wrote:

I enabled debug logging in WiiMC

How do you do that? I’m unaware of any WIIMC logging capability.

Change the value of “Debug” to 1 in settings.xml

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