Browse to SMB shares broken

(2012-04-09 20:41)noonan2678 Wrote:  I thought it could be something to do with passwords too. I made sure that password protected sharing on the Windows side was off. I just did a fresh install of XBMC and had this issue...will try portable mode now and let you know.

A proper fresh install of XBMC should have had a fresh profile anyway and you've already tried on another computer so I doubt portable mode will make any difference very very strange. Even more annoying that I can't see anything SMB related in your debug log. Has this ever worked for you? (were you a Dharma / Beta / RC user originally?)

I just find it very odd that you can access the path in Windows fine but not in XBMC, i've never had that combination before.. every time I've had issues I've not been able to access the UNC via Explorer either.

I am using OpenDNS by the way, but not sure that would matter. I did switch to it recently...

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(2012-04-09 20:47)vexation Wrote:  

(2012-04-09 20:41)noonan2678 Wrote:  I thought it could be something to do with passwords too. I made sure that password protected sharing on the Windows side was off. I just did a fresh install of XBMC and had this issue...will try portable mode now and let you know.

A proper fresh install of XBMC should have had a fresh profile anyway and you've already tried on another computer so I doubt portable mode will make any difference very very strange. Even more annoying that I can't see anything SMB related in your debug log. Has this ever worked for you? (were you a Dharma / Beta / RC user originally?)

I just find it very odd that you can access the path in Windows fine but not in XBMC, i've never had that combination before.. every time I've had issues I've not been able to access the UNC via Explorer either.

Yes, been using XBMC for years without issue. The DNS suggestion from another user makes sense, but I did clear it and renew it on the PCs in question. Also, I recently put a new router in...an E4200v2. Again, don't think that would matter, but those are the only things that have changed. My previous instances of XBMC work fine.

try making a completely new source folder, throw a couple of movies in it. share it and see if XBMC sees that one.

I had this same issue. The browse for SMB shares just hangs seemingly forever.

I just entered in the shares manually, and it worked. But kind of a PITA as I remember the "browse" option being nice and quick before.

Same scenario. New windows 7 64 Bit install, new Eden release. Everything works fine in Windows, no other networking issues. I have many programs that use share names and they all work fine.

(2012-04-10 01:34)mrfatboy Wrote:  try making a completely new source folder, throw a couple of movies in it. share it and see if XBMC sees that one.

That didn't do it...thanks though.

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(2012-04-10 02:00)vinistois Wrote:  I had this same issue. The browse for SMB shares just hangs seemingly forever.

I just entered in the shares manually, and it worked. But kind of a PITA as I remember the "browse" option being nice and quick before.

Same scenario. New windows 7 64 Bit install, new Eden release. Everything works fine in Windows, no other networking issues. I have many programs that use share names and they all work fine.

Huh, so I had tried this on a PC other than the server itself, and it did not work. It would find the share, but would not display the folders under the movie folder or the movies themselves. Just tried it on my server PC and it did work. Will try on the other PCs soon and will let you know the results. Still, I can't understand why it wouldn't work as it is designed. This is just with Eden....

Thanks!

As a possible work around try mapping the shares to a network drive. Then try browsing to that drive from xbmc.

Im having what I think is the same problem on both my Apple TV2 and another Windows PC on my network, both running Eden. Debug logs show nothing - just that it searches and doesnt find any new files in the directory. Will be interested to hear if you find a solution.

So locally, on the PC that has the shared folders, I can get to the shares via the direct IP address method. On the other PCs, I can find the shares only by entering the server IP address, but no contents in the shares. I am pulling my hair out. If anyone has any other ideas, I am all ears and would really appreciate it.

Did you try mapping the share as a network drive?

(2012-04-11 16:53)mrfatboy Wrote:  Did you try mapping the share as a network drive?

That seems to have done it! Thanks so much! Why do you think it took that to get it done?

Also, the scraping process seems to be taking FOREVER now. I have all local media files on those shares. Is there any reason to think that this would slow down that process? Any way to speed it up?