Setting up SMB shares
#1
alright what I'm doing should be fairly simple however it doesn't seem to be working.
I am trying to share my music over Windows 7 Homeshare to XBMC Live. I've followed many guides on how to do this and it still does work. I get everything from 'Error:2' to 'unable to connect' when trying different methods. is there something I'm missing?
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#2
type the smb share name instead of browsing for it Smile
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#3
I just had to redo mine on a fresh Live install. For some reason when I went from Win XBMC to Live my shares wouldn't show up. Windows 7 for some reason makes things complicated.

So what I did was add a new SMB share. I just put the name of my pc i.e Office-pc and I was able to get to my media.
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#4
I posted this in another thread, obviously if you are not using wireless you will replace ra0 with eth0.

Quote:... I also kept getting "error 2" when I tried to browse for smb shares.

I got it corrected by editing

Code:
/etc/samba/smb.conf

Specifically I did the following:

1. made sure my workgroup name was correct.
2. un-commented i.e. removed the semicolon from
Code:
name resolve order=lmhosts host wins bcast
3. un-commented and changed
Code:
;   interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0
to
Code:
interfaces = ra0
4. un-commented
Code:
bind interfaces only = yes

Rebooted and my shares came right up.

As you can see I am using wireless, my supposition is that some how it was defaulting to eth0 which is unplugged and that is why I was getting the error.

Regards
David
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