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Search the forums, the reason for this has been answered many, many times.
That said, once builds with the new osx build system start coming out, this issue should be resolved once and for all as these builds include an update to samba upstream that resolved the Win7 issues.
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have you tried the 'Everyone' user? .. it only worked for me when I did the following below in Win7:
a) On the shared directory, make sure you have appropriate file permissions (right click Properties->Security tab->'Edit' button.. add 'Everyone' user with read permissions)
b) On the shared directory, make sure you have appropriate share permissions (right click Properties->Sharing tab->'Advanced Sharing'->'Permissions'->'Add'.. add 'Everyone' user with read permissions.
Well I had to do these steps for my setup. Hope this works for anyone out there.
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2011-03-09, 08:23
(This post was last modified: 2011-03-09, 08:25 by Hudson_Hawk04.)
did you check and see if your computer thinks its on a home or business network? search work group hit enter. Change workroup (if i remember correctly) change to home and restart your computer. Check the video link in my signature if you have any questions.
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2011-04-07, 23:29
(This post was last modified: 2011-04-07, 23:38 by ryan.robinson.)
Maybe this is a stupid question because I'm new at this, but how do you add the Homegroup instead of a folder or drive? So I'm clicking on Add Source -> Browse -> Windows Network (SMB) -> WORKGROUP -> PCNAME -> fill in login info, then it just cycles over and over again. I tried with it running through OSX and tried with the Live disc (which I'd actually prefer in the long term but it wouldn't even get past Windows Network.
Update that: I added the Workgroup, so now the cycle of trying to enter the password is just when I try to open the computer from the source list to actually access the media. Didn't really help anything.
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in my own opinion all homegroup does is muck things up.
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Still no luck. Any other ideas out there? Otherwise it might be time to give up on the XBMC idea.
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10.1 I believe is the version number. I downloaded it a couple days ago. I'm giving up on getting it to work on the Mac, but I did manage to get the Live Disc to work after some of these other steps, so they were still effective at least for that. I'm planning now to just install it as a separate partition, which I've done before with Ubuntu so I should be able to figure out from that. Thanks for all the help.
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Still no dice? WTF? That sucks man!
Well lets try one more thing before you give up.
When you are connecting to the Windows 7 PC , what protocall are you using. I had problems doing it when I added a SMB share. Seems like there are 2 types of SMB services in XBMC. One for unix compliant systems and one for windows.
Can you give us screen captures of your set up? It would help out a bunch to see that info.
I tried the linux live distro and have 9.1 .something from 2 years ago on the xbox (works PERFECT compared to the apple TV xbmc (no status 11 issues)
I have been able to get Universal plug and play working from 7 from WMP12.
Are you connecting via wireless? and are you using IPV4 and IPV6 on your network? That might be an issue.
Do you have any windows XP computers to test with?
You might also have the deaded 10 connection llimit working as well. It is a problem on the apple TV where it will open up and take all 10 slots so that when you try to go back and browse on a drive, it won;t let you back in again and ask for your password.
Don't feel bad if you can;t get it to work. I have a buddy that does computer refreshes at a bank and I had to help him extensibly to get it working to just share with WinXP computers on his home network.
As a last ditch effort, Micrsosfty Indian Division posts that you might just need to set up a new account so that you can share drives (non admin I think)
And well, other then that, till I know more about your setup, that's about all I can offer as far as know how around problems with network sharing.
If your in portland oregon, I can try to see if I can come by and help get it working as long as you supply diet soda. :-)
