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I'm running my R.Pi on an ethernet connection and had been previously sharing content to Raspbmc from my Asus 1225C with Ubuntu 12.04.
I now have the much-discussed Error 2: Share Not Available problem. So far, I have tried:
- rebooting my R.Pi
- rebooting my Asus 1225C
- cancelling my shared folders and re-creating them
- re-installing Raspbmc
- changing the name of WORKGROUP, rebooting, reverting to original, rebooting
- giving user XBMC administrative rights (I think I did this correctly)
- adding the SMB share via Add Network Location (this produces a different error message, saying the 1225C is not connected)
I've had only the Error 2 message approx. 9872 times, and once or twice I've been able to Browse my SMB Workgroup but the 1225C is not detected. Excuse me if I haven't included any necessary information.
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Why are you using SMB shares on Ubuntu...? Surely exporting over NFS would be a better/easier option, particularly for a Pi (NFS being a lower overhead/more efficient network protocol than SMB aka CIFS).
Though presumably the error you are seeing is a Raspbmc specific issue (if it's been much discussed it hasn't been happening here) so I suspect you may have more luck asking over on the Raspbmc forum.
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SMB shares take just a few clicks to create on Ubuntu.
The problem isn't specific to Raspbmc, try this query in the search engine of your choice: site:xbmc.org error 2 share not available
I'll look into NFS, something of a noob so hoped there might be an SMB-based solution.
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Tried NFS, adding via Browser and Add Network Location - no success.
Via Browser, no error message, it stops working with no result.
Vis Add Network Location, same error message as with SMB.
Any more ideas?
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Weeks later, I still haven't fixed this. I've added the shares to sources.xml. I've tried Raspbmc, Openelec and XBian. I've added a force user = to smb.conf.
Any other ideas?
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Arggghh... please, please people... filter out the CecLogMessage garbage when posting debug logs (unless it's a CEC related problem, of course...!)
I'm sorry, but I just can't be bothered wading through a log with so much noise.
@damianoloan: Try "grep -v CecLogMessage ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log" to create a log without the noise (or disable CEC entirely in System -> Settings -> System -> Input Devices -> Peripherals -> Raspberry Pi CEC Adapter, and uncheck Enabled)
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I should add: DHCP-assigned, and I did try with hostname without success.