mysql sharing, possible to share with Windows and OS/X?
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Hi there, I currently have all my files on a Samba share, and I'm running a mysql server and successfully sharing between all the Windows systems in my house. I also have a macbook. It is able to read my library from mysql but when I attempt to watch a video it cannot find it, even with I manually connect to the file share first. Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong here? Let me be clear, all systems are pulling files from the share, and there are no local paths in my library. Thanks.
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#2
Enable debug logging and have a look in the log to see what XBMC is trying to play. If the file is something like smb://server/share/etc it should play on all platforms. If you have a path like \\server\share\etc I don't think this will play on non-Windows platforms.

See http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Debug_log for how to get at the debug log.

JR
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#3
What version of OS X are you running? Lion has major SMB issues.
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#4
I see the smb://server/share/path name in the information screen for the file, and I did a query on the path table in the database (I'm familiar with mysql) and it has the smb:// path in there.

I have not upgraded to Lion yet but thanks for the warning because my upgrade was imminent (within days).


Perhaps this should be in OS/X specific support.. would there be anything that would cause OS/X to not be able to open a file by that link? I find OS/X handling of samba shares really confusing, I always connect to to them with the 'Connect to server..' menu selection and that point enter my Samba ID and password and shares I want to mount. I expect OS/X should handle the files properly after that, like Windows does.

In Windows I just make sure I connect to a share and enter my credentials before I use XBMC and everything works afterwards. I don't want to enter my credentials into the OS permanently or into XBMC.
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