2012-05-29, 03:47
Greetings... and apologies if this has been answered before. I've been trying to figure this out and I cannot find a specific answer to my questions..
My set up is this: I have a primary Macbook (OS X Lion) that I use for everyday computing. I have an older PC that I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on and wish to use XBMC on. This pc is set up to dual boot with XP MCE.
I have all of my media on a firewire drive connected to my Macbook (it just sits at a desk). The drive is formatted as htfs journaled I believe. I was able to set up an SMB share to that drive from XBMC within XP and it worked perfectly, however when i try this in Ubuntu I am having some issues. Namely, I can see the media files on the firewire drive from XBMC in ubuntu, but when I try to play them it just tells me there was an error and the file was not played.
Admitedly, I 'm a newb with Ubuntu but really wanted to try it out and learn a few things in the process. Because I got the share to work in XP I'm wonderinf if I am just missing something obvious in Ubuntu or if there is something else I need to configure. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!
My set up is this: I have a primary Macbook (OS X Lion) that I use for everyday computing. I have an older PC that I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on and wish to use XBMC on. This pc is set up to dual boot with XP MCE.
I have all of my media on a firewire drive connected to my Macbook (it just sits at a desk). The drive is formatted as htfs journaled I believe. I was able to set up an SMB share to that drive from XBMC within XP and it worked perfectly, however when i try this in Ubuntu I am having some issues. Namely, I can see the media files on the firewire drive from XBMC in ubuntu, but when I try to play them it just tells me there was an error and the file was not played.
Admitedly, I 'm a newb with Ubuntu but really wanted to try it out and learn a few things in the process. Because I got the share to work in XP I'm wonderinf if I am just missing something obvious in Ubuntu or if there is something else I need to configure. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!