Any Media Browser users have experience with folder locations over a network?

I'd say many people here use MB pointed to network shares. You can either point it to a mapped network drive or to your \\server\movies\ path.

I'd say you are having other issues, but you would need to provide more info on the network (wifi, gigabit?). It could be that MB is still trying to index and you maybe should just leave it for half an hour or so and see what happens.

Yeah I don't think it has anything to do with network shares. I've had problems with MB locking up lately as well. Not really sure what the issue is. It also has issues where it starts TMT5, but then just sits there (Not entirely sure if that is TMT5 or MB). My HTPC is pretty old though, so I think upgrading might solve a lot of my issues.

I've had issues with MB and TMT5 as well. Seems to work opening most of the time with Blu-ray folder rips, but is hit or miss with .iso files (mostly miss). Then when exiting the movie it will hang on a blank (wmc background, no icon) screen and then say MB failed and an option to cancel or close, which neither really works.

After having the same exact issues with MB and TMT5 in Win7 and Win8 I tried MyMovies. That program knows how to load and exit an external player. Unfortunately my trial is up in less than two days. I'll probably cough up at least 1250 points.

MB just seems to always have some bugs.

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I run dual monitors and my media center pointed at libraries over LAN on my server...

No issues here - all movies on unraid server.

I believe instead of mapping the drives on the HTPC used a "win 7 library tool" software which allows you to add network locations to your libraries.

I think it was made by "Zorn Software", but a quick search looks like the site may be down?

if you google "zorn windows 7 library tool" you can dig up some info.

Here is an article on it

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/08/windows-7-library-tool/

You don't need any third party software. You need to share the drives properly on the host machine with advanced sharing.

Which version of windows is on the host machine? You need Professional or Ultimate Win7 to do this (without third party software, I guess?)

That should work for advanced sharing. You need to make the host machine know that the client machine is a safe machine and then share the whole drive or the folder where the content is stored.