Make SFTP Shares Available From Sleep

I have looked at many posts and have not found an answer that seems applicable to my problem. I seldom power off my desktop, I usually just put it to sleep so when I log back in it's the same state I left it.

I have another computer that I use as a file server that has sftp shares setup. Whenever I take the desktop computer out of sleep, the files are not available unless I first access them via the file manager. So an app like my media player will not find the library until I open the folder.

Is this an auto mount situation? The shares seem to be mounted, just not accessible until "woken up" again. How can I resolve this issue? I believe it is an issue with SFTP since I was not having this problem when my previous server used Samba shares.

PS I am the only user and the user name and passwords are the same on both machines

Thanks