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I've shared my media using an SMB connection and I find that it seems to keep buffering............I've heard that sharing using FTP works better.
I currently have an FTP server set up on my Desktop that friends and family connect to, to download stuff (music, films etc. etc.)
Can I use my existing FTP server to share media to XBMC?? if so, how??
(I run XBMC on an ATV 2)
Thanks in advance
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When you add the movies/tv shows as a source go down to Network Location, and you can specify FTP in there...
or edit your sources.xml file directly ...
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2011-08-06, 21:30
(This post was last modified: 2011-08-06, 22:14 by ady199.)
I've selected FTP Server (Add Network location) - below it, it says:-
SERVER ADDRESS
REMOTE PATH
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But for some reason I'm unable to select anything - all it allows me to do, is to change what network location I want
Help!!
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I share my nas ftp server all up and down the cost to friends and family and their XBMC units, it works great.
As far as help setting it up, setting it up for me is no different then smb or anything else.
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Still not working....it doesn't allow me to change any settings
HELP!!
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ady199 Wrote:I've selected FTP Server (Add Network location) - below it, it says:-
SERVER ADDRESS
REMOTE PATH
21
But for some reason I'm unable to select anything - all it allows me to do, is to change what network location I want
Help!!
for SERVER ADDRESS you put the
SERVER ADDRESS. The IP address. You can use the local network IP address or the IP address you give to everyone else.
put nothing for remote path
keep the port the same.
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ady199 Wrote:Thanks for your reply, it looks like it's a bug in the skin (Aeon MQ 2) it doesn't allow you to set any ftp server parameters - I fixed it by going back to the default skin and set the settings there, I then reverted back to the Aeon MQ 2 skin and luckily it remembered the network loccation
Aaaah. For a moment I thought you had gone crazy :D
