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altusnamura

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Macos X -> Xbmp?
« on: September 24, 2003, 08:04:00 PM »
Instead of using samba i suggest you try xbms. Unforunately you can't share multiple dirs with different paths. For example, if you have your movies on ~/movies and your music on /volumes/musichd they both can't be shared. All you need to do is configure your xbms.conf file on your computer when you want to switch between the two. I personally have been very skeptical of samba on osx, never had much success with it.
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Tony Arnold

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« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2003, 03:56:00 AM »
I've setup samba successfully on my G4 to allow the xbox to access via samba. The next release of Mac OS X includes Samba 3, which seems to make things more reliable, but I found the trick (in addition to the smb.conf changes listed at www.xboxmediaplayer.de) was to use the url:  smb://:@WORKGROUP/computername/sharename

I also added name-based entries to my /etc/hosts file for each of the machines I wanted to access from the xbox, because xbmp won't talk to IP addresses, it wants names for samba servers. My Xbox is FRAG'ed at the moment, but once I fix it, I will post detailed instructions on setting this up properly.
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howheels

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Macos X -> Xbmp?
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2003, 02:40:00 PM »
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ZildjianKX

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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2003, 09:50:00 PM »
QUOTE (Tony Arnold @ Sep 29 2003, 03:56 AM)
I've setup samba successfully on my G4 to allow the xbox to access via samba. The next release of Mac OS X includes Samba 3, which seems to make things more reliable, but I found the trick (in addition to the smb.conf changes listed at www.xboxmediaplayer.de) was to use the url:  smb://:@WORKGROUP/computername/sharename

I also added name-based entries to my /etc/hosts file for each of the machines I wanted to access from the xbox, because xbmp won't talk to IP addresses, it wants names for samba servers. My Xbox is FRAG'ed at the moment, but once I fix it, I will post detailed instructions on setting this up properly.

Hmmm... I got Samba setup on my mac... but for some reason XBMP connects to the folders, and they are blank... any ideas?

Edit- It won't work under OS 10.3 sad.gif
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ZildjianKX

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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2003, 07:11:00 PM »
In the 10-29 build, I saw AAC listed in the file types to recognize, but I don't actually have an AAC files to test...
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