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2013-10-17, 05:23
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-21, 22:26 by CT-Mike.)
So my son convinced me to build a HTPC, run XBMCbuntu and XBMC to stream movies across the network. So I have it up and running, and was able to successfully map a Time Capsule in the basement with movies on it. I recently added a 3TB WD mybook connected directly to the HTPC and am trying to setup the new drive in XBMC.
The HTPC is named xbmc-desktop (real creative I know), and the drive is named mybook. So when I type in smb://username:password@xbmc-desktop//mybook I get "error 2 share not available."
Anyone have any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
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2013-10-17, 05:44
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-17, 05:44 by CT-Mike.)
So I booted into XBMCbuntu, thinking that I hadn't mounted the drive or setup a share. When I try to mount the drive I get the following error:
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/xbmc/MyBook:Command-line'mount -t "exfat" -o"uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid""/dev/sdb1""/media/xbmc/MyBook"" exited with non-zero exit status 32:mount:unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
I take it the exfat file system is not recognizable by XBMC?
Thanks for any and all help.
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So the drive worked that one time and was able to watch a movie. In the days since the drive mounts, but now the movies don't show up in XBMC. When I disconnect the drive from XBMC and connect to my MBP, the movies show up just fine.
Anyone have any ideas?
I appreciate any and all help,
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When you plug and unplug it asll the time the mount point might be changing for some reason. Stop playing with it!
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2013-10-21, 23:34
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All I did was shutdown the HTPC since it wasn't being used. Started it back up again and the drive was acting this way. Tried a few times with no success, that's why I hooked it up to the MBP to see what is going on. The drive mounts in XBMC, just doesn't show any movies. Same thing with XBMCBuntu, the drive mounts, the movie folder shows up, but it appears empty.
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SO far now I have decided to just add a couple of HD's of the HTPC for now and forgo the networked drives until I can get this figured out.
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When were we ever talking about networked drives?
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