From 24d221709dec35456dc2702d5ddb7cfa204bd8bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LukePulverenti Luke Pulverenti luke pulverenti
 <LukePulverenti Luke Pulverenti luke.pulverenti@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:08:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed an issue with shortcuts pointing to a network share

---
 MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileData.cs | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 MediaBrowser.Controller/Kernel.cs      |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileData.cs b/MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileData.cs
index 75069d4d58..f5375e71b5 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileData.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileData.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using System;
+using MediaBrowser.Common.Logging;
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.IO
     {
         public const int MAX_PATH = 260;
         public const int MAX_ALTERNATE = 14;
+        public static IntPtr INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = new IntPtr(-1);
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets information about a path
@@ -20,8 +22,21 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.IO
         {
             WIN32_FIND_DATA data;
             IntPtr handle = FindFirstFile(path, out data);
+
+            if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE && !Path.HasExtension(path))
+            {
+                Logger.LogInfo("Handle came back invalid for {0}. Since this is a directory we'll try appending \\*.", path);
+                
+                FindClose(handle);
+
+                handle = FindFirstFile(Path.Combine(path, "*"), out data);
+            }
+
             if (handle == IntPtr.Zero)
+            {
                 throw new IOException("FindFirstFile failed");
+            }
+            
             FindClose(handle);
 
             data.Path = path;
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Controller/Kernel.cs b/MediaBrowser.Controller/Kernel.cs
index b45e3ab9a5..ea7b928727 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Controller/Kernel.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Controller/Kernel.cs
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller
             }
             else
             {
-                result.Success = GetMD5(password).Equals(user.Password);
+                result.Success = GetMD5((password ?? string.Empty)).Equals(user.Password);
 
                 // Update LastActivityDate and LastLoginDate, then save
                 if (result.Success)