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2012-03-17, 02:31
(This post was last modified: 2012-03-17, 21:18 by BoomBang.)
All clients are EDEN RC2 and they are the same version since it's one OS in one machine.
this is my log link: edit: I posted the log files w/o enabling DEBUG mode. posting a correct log might take a few days.
I don't know what you mean by db name, but I can tell that after the 'pass' mistake I simply copy/paste the advancedsettings.xml in the wiki (which I followed to my best understanding).
I imported the video library file from my current running portable client (which works well when MySQL db is not accessed by XBMC). I also tried removing all media folders/paths from the different client in order to 'reset' XBMC's db but it doesn't work.
Can it be related to the fact that one user had admin rights and the other doesn't?
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Once again I answering myself:
I've used Symlink for the thumbnails, addons and addon_data folder (the rest is path sub)so the instances are pretty much identical. The last challenge left is the GUI: when using path substitute on guisetting.xml, the forwarded intance doesn't apply the setting and destroys the setting for the original instance.
Does anyone know of another methof of achieving this?
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Do NOT attempt to load guisettings.xml via path substitution. This file is written to reasonably regularly by XBMC, and thus you'll quite likely screw something up with 2 machines writing the same thing. Further, much of the content is machine-specific.
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Thanks for the reply and the info, jmarshall.
Since posting above, I looked into guisettings.xml in more detail and noticed the machine-specific stuff; resolutions etc.
Is there any way to share just the skin settings? I tried placing the <skinsettings> node into advancedsettings.xml but it had no effect.
Also, in the absence of a debug log, can you think of any reason why one of my machines will forget all of its settings following a full power down occasionally? Its this reason wny in trying to share all of the settings.
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(2012-03-29, 00:23)BoomBang Wrote: EDIT:
I've found this thread and bug report that seem to be relavant (since my sql share is local) however I have no idea how to fix it like suggested there.
EDIT 2:
After reading through the bug report, and using the workaround suggested (sharing the media dirs and then using SMB as the source) I can finally say that syncing works in the computer.
It would be nice if this was mentioned in the WIKI.
I had known about the Windows file path problem, but for some reason never made the connection in my head about this when I wrote the path subs part of the MySQL guide. Sorry about that!
As for the other bug, I believe that's more of a general issue where some networks are flaky with the NetBIOS name. It can happen with just SMB shares, for example. Other times people don't seem to have any issues at all using the NetBIOS name. Still, will try to work that in the guide as well.
Also, anyone is free to edit these things directly. Just sign up for an account (now that the forum upgrade is done, we might be able to link the forum accounts with the wiki so people don't have to sigh up for yet-another-website) and change things as you see fit. All changes are recorded, so nothing is ever lost or broken. At the same time, feel free to send me a message if you ever want to see something changed, but aren't comfortable doing the change yourself.