I have recently updated my Media Center to Vista and have a major problem
accessing my music collection which is hosted in a Linux (SMB2) box through
SMB.

I can access the shares after removing the default to NTLMv2, however, when
Media Player adds the music to library, at some point, the wireless
connection will just be disabled.

Same happens when listing folders of that server that contain many items or
are nested.

The event logs show loads of errors from Media Player and lots of info logs
in the system log stating that TCP/IP has resumed normal operation.

It's a major PITA and actually renders Vista completely useless for my MCE.

Has anyone experienced similar issues? Is there a way to get into some XP
compatibility mode as with XP, it worked perfectly?