2011-03-21, 13:29
Okay, here is the deal:
I have an old laptop (running Vista) that I have installed XBMC onto, and I have two external hard drives attached to it that contain all of my movies. Attached through long cable is a switch/router (older Linksys model).
Now, what I want to do, is be able to have people connect to this small private network through the switch/router (not sure how I need to configure everything) and stream movies wirelessly to their XBMC programs (there would probably only be three other laptops that would do this).
I have tried to take down the firewall on the old laptop, and I have tried to share everything and I have tried drive mapping... But so far, nothing I do seems to work. If someone could please give me a step by step on how to configure this stuff, it would be GREATLY appreciated because I spent hours making sure everything (hardware) was attached correctly and stuff like that.
I can provide more information upon request (switch/router model, "server" laptop model, etc.).
Thank you very much for your help in advance.
- Jffrydrago
I have an old laptop (running Vista) that I have installed XBMC onto, and I have two external hard drives attached to it that contain all of my movies. Attached through long cable is a switch/router (older Linksys model).
Now, what I want to do, is be able to have people connect to this small private network through the switch/router (not sure how I need to configure everything) and stream movies wirelessly to their XBMC programs (there would probably only be three other laptops that would do this).
I have tried to take down the firewall on the old laptop, and I have tried to share everything and I have tried drive mapping... But so far, nothing I do seems to work. If someone could please give me a step by step on how to configure this stuff, it would be GREATLY appreciated because I spent hours making sure everything (hardware) was attached correctly and stuff like that.
I can provide more information upon request (switch/router model, "server" laptop model, etc.).
Thank you very much for your help in advance.
- Jffrydrago