[dericw]

Hi,

I'm running xbmc 9.11-17 on my HTPC. I have all the actor thumbnails stored on my NAS. I can only get the actor thumbs to display in XBMC when I use:

Code:

<actor>
    <name>Actor Name</name>
    <role>Actor Role</role>
    <thumb>/path/to/nas/mount/image.jpg</thumb>
</actor>

I would like to use:

Code:

<actor>
     <name>Actor Name</name>
     <role>Actor Role</role>
     <thumb>smb://user:password@NAS_IP_ADDRESS/path/to/thumb/image.jpg</thumb>
</actor>

but the thumbs don't display. My smb path matches the one listed in my sources.xml file exactly.

According to the wiki an smb path is valid for thumbs.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[spiff]

there's no reason why it shouldn't work. anything of interest in the debug log?

[dericw]

Thanks for the reply.

I grep'd the log for "smb" and found a lot of errors of the same type. Here is a sample:

ERROR: CreateThumbnail: Unable to create thumbfile special://masterprofile/profiles/user/Thumbnails/Video/5/xxxxxx.tbn from image smb://user:_password@IP_Address/path/to/images/image.jpg

Hope this info is helpful.

Thanks

[jmarshall]

So it simply couldn't read the file. Were the user and password URL encoded?

[dericw]

Thanks for the reply.

No the username and password aren't URL encoded. They only contain lowercase letters and numbers.

[jmarshall]

Can you see that folder when you browse to it via pictures? Tried without username/pass?

[dericw]

Sorry for the late response. I've been away.

Yeah I can see the folder and I did try it without username and password and still nothing. I ended up deleting my library database and starting over and that worked.

By the way I decided to switch to http rather than smb for my thumbs.

Thanks for all the help.