I've been affected by this as well and I registered because I need some advice for this specific issue.
I had XBMC (latest stable Gotham running on latest stable Openelec) set up on my rPi, sources were on an MBP running snow leopard via SMB (through LAN), and everything worked perfectly. Yesterday I finally decided to upgrade to Mavericks (10.9.5) and boom, everything imploded. My SMB sources dropped away and I've been trying every fix I could find but nothing is as stable as it was before mavericks. My library is a mess of duplicates and broken links so before I start pulling my hair out, I think I better get rid of all existing sources and start fresh.
What I've tried:
- editing the sources into direct paths to my shared volumes as the SMB browser no longer worked (either 'broken pipe' or 'unauthorised connection' errors)
- forcing SMB1 through terminal command (not cifs), did nothing until I used my server's IP in the path. worked briefly but lost connection on sleep and video froze repeatedly.
- downloading SMBUp and setting new sources, made my shares visible through XBMC's browser but connection was unreliable again.
- Enabling NFS on my MBP, I set up a test source in XBMC and while it connected just fine, the video started freezing again, though it was less severe as through SMB.
- disabled sleep on MBP as everything I tried immediately stopped working on sleep, causing library clean to want to ditch everything from all sources.
Testing all of these (plus researching as I'm handy with tech but not exactly a pro) took me
hours and I'm bummed that still nothing works as it should. Honestly, I'm thinking of downgrading Mavericks as it appears to be the source of all my problems, but of course I'd rather solve the current issues or find a satisfactory workaround.
So, a fresh start, I haven't tried stiwi's suggestion of setting up shares in OSX directly to folders instead of the whole volume but can anyone confirm that this works? Should I abandon SMB altogether and set up my new sources through NFS? Why was NFS still unstable for me? Is there ANY way to set up my sources so they won't conk out whenever my MBP goes to sleep (I'd rather not disable sleep and never had to before)?
I'm open to any and all suggestions because I'm starting to think Mavericks just isn't compatible with Gotham.
e: oh, I've also tried setting up the SMB path as smb://
[email protected]/folder but it didn't make any difference.
e: another thing, I've been using multi-path sources except for the NFS test-source, didn't seem to make a difference but I'm going back to single-path sources anyway.