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Hey all,
I've had the SQL database stuff working before, but now have a fresh install with the official Dharma version etc..
My problem before was that I could get everything working on my main HTPC working as usual and on our Mac Laptops be able to see the library with "watched" states and watch movies/tv shows as normal over SMB, but NO fanart.
I tried setting up symbolic links but couldn't get it to work.
Ideally there would be a setting where I could point it to a thumbnails folder so all machines could access/write them over SMB.
Has anyone got this working accross multiple systems?
Thanks
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Hmmm, yes but then it scrapes them and stores them in a the xbmc user_data folder, so I would believe that when you're on the laptop it will be looking for local images in its XBMC user_data rather than the original movie folder.
Thanks though
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I solved it by copying the /userdata/thumbnails-folder to a samba-share and mounting this folder on every system... works like a charm
greetings
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MJFox, could you explain more exactly what you did as I've tried this approach before.
I moved the thumbnails folder of my main HTPC to the Samba share and symlinked it back to the HTPCs user_data folder, which worked. Getting the same thing working on a Mac though proved hard work.
Cheers
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I don't think he was talking about symlinks, but mounting the thumbnails folder from the share to .xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails (for Linux at least).
What you want is to mount -t smbfs //IP/SHARE /home/username/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails
More or less.
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Thanks!
I'll get the SQL stuff set back up tomorrow and try it out. Maybe make a "launch XBMC" automator script so it only mounts the folder when needed.
I'll let you know how it goes.
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@niietzshe:
thanks for reporting back, happy to hear that it works for you now!
are you using WLAN? I notice almost no difference between a local database/thumbnail-folder and the mysql-database/mounted-folder on my setup (I'm storing my data on a Synology DS710+ NAS and my boxes are connected through a 100MBit-wire to it)
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Yeah Sorry I should have mentioned that the laptops are over WLAN...
If I wouldn't have seen any lag in loading the art I would have been fine with the sym linking.
Added a few new episodes/movies into the database today and the thumbnails sync up pretty quickly. I haven't seen a blank poster/fanart yet even though they start syncing after XBMC launches.
Niietzshe