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Guys and gals,
I really reaching out of frustration here. I'm relatively new to Ubuntu so please keep that in mind. I have a home built whs 2011 which does a fine job of sharing files to my win 7 boxes in the house however, I'm really struggling to figure out how to get this working with my Ubuntu boxes!! Are there any write ups on this or am I on my own?
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Can u not just browse to your whs from in XBMC using add source ? I found it useful to create a user xbmc with password on whs giving read & write permissions.
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Unfortunately, no. I've set up an NFS share now so I think I might just try to map that.... I've been running into issues getting it to map but that has more to do with me being a noob at ubuntu I think. I'm going to keep looking around for a solution. Doesn't eden support NFS shares ootb?
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I would assume you don't have to put user: password if the shares are open? By default I think when you turn on media sharing in whs 2011 it opens the specified shares up to the everyone group. Even then I'd like to use nfs now that I've set it up and it tends to be a lighter network protocol. I set up a win7 eden beta 1 machine and it could see the nfs shares without an issue. I'm setting up another Ubuntu box tonight to test it on if I can get the VM to install it. I'll let you know how it goes..
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Ok, so here's the progress thus far. I gave up on ubuntu entirely, which I hate, because of garbage audio support. I could have beaten my head against the wall for another couple of days trying to sort out why ubuntu wouldn't let me play audio over the hdmi to DTS/DD 5.1 or I could just rebuild a win7 box and have it work. On another note the suggestions above did work for the SMB protocol to WHS2011, so thank you guys for that. I may still try and get this thing working but it'll be whenever I have more free time....whenever that could be.