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2012-05-04, 01:14
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-05, 17:39 by Johnnovision.)
I have a new install of XBMC on a laptop. This will be the third computer on my network to run XBMC, it is a fresh install of Windows Ultimate. I have my network set and works great in windows My problem is i can't see any other folders on my network in XBMC where i add video sources.
Windows Network (SMB) is available but nothing is in it.
My network is up and working with file sharing
Things I have tried
Set XBMC as an administrator program
set my network as a Home group and just a straight up shared folders
set all my firewall protection to off and on with permissions
I believe its a setting in XBMC not allowing the permissions
Does anyone have insight to this? I have never come across this before and i have set up many instances of XBMC for my home and friends
Thanks in advance
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I am not 100% sure what the server name is but I have 3 computers all Windows 7 (including my troubled laptop) connected via a Homegroup. I tried what you said but put one of my computer names in and it worked lets say my computer name is JAY-PC I typed \\JAY-PC and a folder opened for this network source. I tried with my other computer and it worked as well.
I took this to your next step but i am not sure how to enter it properly. I kept the protocol Windows network (SMB) i put my server name is \\JAY-PC
but I am not sure if should put a shared folder and I don't think I need a username or password if i did would it be my windows username and password for the remote computer?
regardless i tried just putting in the server name to see where that got me. It added but when i try and access the network folder it just hangs, the name of the share that shows up is smb://JAY-PC
If you could give me a bit of insight that would be great
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2012-05-04, 18:55
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-04, 18:56 by jhsrennie.)
You need the share name as well as the server name. When you type \\servername into the Run dialog and click OK what you get is a list of all the share names.
The source should show as smb://jay-pc/sharename/
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Perfect This worked. I realized why, I had a problem before with the new network share hanging I added a \\ to my server name but you don't need to do that in XBMC I guess
Thanks for your help guys... I completely agree Windows Home Group does suck I just put it that way because i knew it worked before.
PS I know I double posted this but before I wrote this thread I thought I had deleted it, now I can't seem to delete my other post. I will continue to try and delete it but just forget about it