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[Magos]

QUOTE(rafaqat @ May 4 2006, 07:09 PM)

I've used SharePoints on the mac to set up the SMB share and I've opened up read/write permissions to everyone.  Used to work on the November 2005 release.

Any ideas?

Can you ping your xbox from your mac? Try leaving it pinging for a while and see if it starts timing out. If so, it may be the same problem as I had. My fix was to disable XBOX Autodetect in the xbox Network settings. It appeared in a build late last year, enabled by default. Turn it off and reboot your xbox and see if that helps.

This post has been edited by Magos: May 5 2006, 02:02 PM

[mayto]

I got mine working ( well not the way it was working before the samba changes)

Here is what i done:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/foru...0;&#entry110030

Basically open the smb.conf file on your pc/server.

Heres my dreambox smb.conf:
[global]
   load printers = no
   guest account = root
   log file = /tmp/smb.log
   security = share
   server string = DreamBOX network services
   workgroup = Dream
   netbios name = DreamBOX

[Configuration]
  comment = Configuration files - take care!
  path = /var
  read only = no
  public = yes
  guest ok = yes

[Harddisk]
  comment = The harddisk
  path = /hdd/samba share
  read only = no
  public = yes
  guest ok = yes


before the harddisk path was -  path = /hdd and for whatever reason xbmc wouldnt display its contents, so i edited it to point to a particular folder on the hdd with movies etc and it worked fine. So try and do something like this and see if works for you:

[Movies]
  comment = The harddisk
  path = /hdd/movies
  read only = no
  public = yes
  guest ok = yes

[Music]
  comment = The harddisk
  path = /hdd/music
  read only = no
  public = yes
  guest ok = yes

Thats if your movies etc are in their own particular folders. Hope it helps.

QUOTE(Jezz_X @ Apr 27 2006, 01:49 PM)

All good suggestions and yep I've tried using a brand new xml file even the default one will let be browse through the filemanager to my computer like this smb/workgroup/computername/ but as soon as I try to go into any share that it lists (yes it lists them and finds them) like movies/ or music/  It pops up with a message saying "Invalid computer name" even though its allready let me browse to it but not into it.

Its really fustrating when the old build works 100% so somthing must of changed

So in your case try and make another folder in movies/ for example movies/action/ and edit the smb.conf to point to this and see if it works.

[PhatheadWRX]

hey guysbump the timeout back to 40 instead of the new 10.... see if that works.

[ChrisF]

Timely thread.  I have the same issue with 4/27.  We have 3 servers on the Lan.  Mine (2) are very fast and still work fine with all links.  For whatever reason my neighbor's server has always been a bit slower sending data and guess what, every bookmark to his times right out exhibiting the same behavior that you guys are talking about (or the original poster at least).  

I'm going to poke around with the suggestion above and play with the xml timeout settings when I get a chance but this is the first place that I would look.

[Jezz_X]

QUOTE(PhatheadWRX @ May 6 2006, 03:40 AM)

hey guysbump the timeout back to 40 instead of the new 10.... see if that works.

Even if this was the the case which it isn't because Ive set it to 60 and it still dosn't work why would it have to take so long in new builds and not wait even 1 second on old ones

@ mayto that might work fine on Linux but I got WinXP

[ChrisF]

Mine's working now.  I changed the XML timeout to 40.  Honestly I'm not sure if it was the reboot or the change as I didn't have a chance to play with it much yesterday and with the new build out I'll have to update before troubleshooting anymore.

[elupus]

Jezz, your problem is the exception (throwing an exception when entering directories as seen by the log) problem right? it has nada to do with timouts. do perhaps compile your own builds? if you do, pm me and i'll send you a modified libsmb.lib file to put into your build, wich might ( i say might as it is a longshot) fix the problem

[rafaqat]

QUOTE(Magos @ May 5 2006, 01:29 PM)

Can you ping your xbox from your mac? Try leaving it pinging for a while and see if it starts timing out. If so, it may be the same problem as I had. My fix was to disable XBOX Autodetect in the xbox Network settings. It appeared in a build late last year, enabled by default. Turn it off and reboot your xbox and see if that helps.

tried that, with no luck.

QUOTE(mayto @ May 5 2006, 04:34 PM)

I got mine working ( well not the way it was working before the samba changes)

Here is what i done:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/foru...0;&#entry110030

Basically open the smb.conf file on your pc/server.

Heres my dreambox smb.conf:
[global]
   load printers = no
   guest account = root
   log file = /tmp/smb.log
   security = share
   server string = DreamBOX network services
   workgroup = Dream
   netbios name = DreamBOX

[Configuration]
  comment = Configuration files - take care!
  path = /var
  read only = no
  public = yes
  guest ok = yes

[Harddisk]
  comment = The harddisk
  path = /hdd/samba share
  read only = no
  public = yes
  guest ok = yes
before the harddisk path was -  path = /hdd and for whatever reason xbmc wouldnt display its contents, so i edited it to point to a particular folder on the hdd with movies etc and it worked fine. So try and do something like this and see if works for you:

[Movies]
  comment = The harddisk
  path = /hdd/movies
  read only = no
  public = yes
  guest ok = yes

[Music]
  comment = The harddisk
  path = /hdd/music
  read only = no
  public = yes
  guest ok = yes

Thats if your movies etc are in their own particular folders. Hope it helps.
So in your case try and make another folder in movies/ for example movies/action/ and edit the smb.conf to point to this and see if it works.

Tried that with no luck either.

QUOTE(PhatheadWRX @ May 5 2006, 06:40 PM)

hey guysbump the timeout back to 40 instead of the new 10.... see if that works.

Yup, tried that made no difference.

Any other ideas?

Could someone possibly point me out a build from November 2005 please?
I can't build these things myself what with only having a Mac at home.

I'd rather live with an older release with bugs that actually plays my files over samba rather then these latest releases that are broken on my particular setup.

[rlangtind]

I had the same problem, but in the end it was down to my xml file.. I usually copy the xbmc folder on to the xbox, and point the xml (on c:) to the new folder.. My xml file must be atleast a year old, and it has always worked, until now.. So if you have problems with the samba, and get "Invalid Computer Name", etc, try copying the new xml and edit accordingly.

[k3n85]

Similar problem with a few exceptions:
Main problem:
Can't connect through SMB to a Win2k3 Server, or WinXP in the video section

Can:
Connect to iTunes Shares (so same network right?)
Get a valid IP through automatic detection DHCP (but not hardcoding)
Get new RSS Feeds ....

WinXP will say share not found at like 10 seconds
Win2k3 not there at 1 second....

But seems to only be a problem in the video section .. ?
Was able to stream a movie just 2 days ago, and nothing has changed...

This post has been edited by k3n85: May 9 2006, 02:36 PM

[Jezz_X]

Ok I found the solution to my problem and its that peace of crap software Norton antivirus.  
It seems that NAV 2005 Internet worm protection is blocking the samba connection if you go in and disable it.    XBMC now works fine for me,  enable it again and it stuffs up.

Its funny really because I disabled NAV to test once but I guess NAV only has the virus protection disabled not the IWP part of it

[Rickard0]

I am having the same problem. SMB share for video worked just a week or two ago, no changes made on my xbox or PC. smb share just continues to ask for password. I have tried everything I can think of, even updating. Now the wierd thing is that all of a sudden my brothers xbox/pc is doing the same thing. we had the same build, and his was modded in Dec. Same issue 350 miles away. I just ran teh WMI thingy and its fine. WindowsXP Firewall is turned off and has been turned off since installed. Zone Alarm is running too. Internal network, using inksys router.

[alexpb1]

I had the exac same problem. I installed the tech build from may 5th and none of my samba shares were working anymore. Was really frustrating, as i thought i must of did something somewhere. I just went back to using an old version and it's working perfectly again.

[Rickard0]

ok, after being retarded I started from scratch, my problem was that simple file sharing was turned back on for that folder. Once I turned it off, BAM it worked. I just can;t figure out how my pc changed almost the same day as my brother's pc 350+ miles away.

Thanks TykSak, i started from scratch from your post and got it working.

[Bjoeboo]

I was going looney over thae damned samba with the 4-17 and 4-27 T3CH builds.  The weird thing is it worked fine on my Xbox 1.1, but those same T3CH builds absolutely refused to work on my 1.6 with mod chip.  I was beginning to think about trying a new bios.  I ended up getting it working by completely wiping EVERYTHING from my xbox C: and E: drives (except the TDATA/UDATA gamesaves)  Also I deleted the 0face000 or whatever the hell it is from within the TDATA & UDATA folders on E: after that it worked flawlessly. (my games are on f: and I don't have a G:)