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voyagerxp · 2012-07-08, 22:17

I've had xbmc on my htpc for ages and love it but i've now brought a ipad 3, jailbroken it and installed xbmc. Right i want to stream my content from my htpc to the ipad xbmc but don't know how to do this, i add videos and click windows network (SMB) and i have workgroup in there so i click that. In there i have my htpc named STEVE-PC, my wireless printer and my laptop network. I click on STEVE-PC and i get asked for username and password and thsi is where i'm lost as i put my htpc homegroup password in and it don't except it. What am i doing wrong.

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2012-07-09, 04:30

Is windows sharing set up on the HTPC to share those media folders, and allow guests (or the user/pass you wish to use)?

voyagerxp · (This post was last modified: 2012-07-09, 14:31 by voyagerxp.)

How is this done as i clicked on the movie folder and clicked share with homegroup read/write. What else am i missing as i've never really done network sharing. My laptop see's my htpc stored files and i can use xbmc on that but not on my ipad 3.

indiejones · 2012-07-09, 16:53

Yeah I keep getting this as well... I managed to get it working for a couple of weeks don't ask how but now when I try to use xbmc on iPad it keeps coming up with Error Operation timed out/ Could not connect to Network Server and yet my laptop connects fine.

voyagerxp · 2012-07-09, 17:08

(2012-07-09, 16:53)indiejones Wrote: Yeah I keep getting this as well... I managed to get it working for a couple of weeks don't ask how but now when I try to use xbmc on iPad it keeps coming up with Error Operation timed out/ Could not connect to Network Server and yet my laptop connects fine.

I don't get a timed out though, it asks me for username and password and i ain't got a log in user or password and i've tried administrator and the homegroup password but no go. Don't help that i'm new with ipads but ya my laptop runs fine with my htpc. Its blagging my head lol.

hovnarr · 2012-07-10, 11:03

This i would try if i where you two:

Indiejones, you should try to ping your server. It doesnt sound you are on same network or use same workgroup?

Voyagerxp, create xmbc profile in htpc with full access to shared folders where u have your content in htpc and use that profile to log into from xbmc.

indiejones · 2012-07-11, 18:07

I've just Ping my HTPC from my iPad on my LAN and this is the result... Not that I know what I'm looking at but all seems ok to me

PING 192.168.1.7 (192.168.1.7)
*Pinging host 192.168.1.7: icmp_seq=0
Resp. 192.168.1.7: seq=0 ttl=128 5 ms
*Pinging host 192.168.1.7: icmp_seq=1
Resp. 192.168.1.7: seq=1 ttl=128 5 ms
*Pinging host 192.168.1.7: icmp_seq=2
Resp. 192.168.1.7: seq=2 ttl=128 5 ms
*Pinging host 192.168.1.7: icmp_seq=3
Resp. 192.168.1.7: seq=3 ttl=128 5 ms

--- 192.168.1.7 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss

indiejones · 2012-07-11, 19:49

Wow guess what.... My iPad see's my HTPC again and all is working fine again.... What ever that ping app did it's now back working.

Voyagerxp
The only thing I did originally different to get mine working was on the folders I wanted to share I went into properties/Security... I know I did something in there which made it work but not sure what it was... Sorry!

voyagerxp · 2012-07-11, 23:43

My problem is the lock settings, it asks me for a user and password and i don't know what it means.

voyagerxp · (This post was last modified: 2012-07-12, 12:36 by voyagerxp.)

Sorted missed the turn off passwords.

indiejones · 2012-07-13, 17:04

Nice one!