[Calathia]

hi!

since you guys made true my wildest dreams of getting xbmc to stream dvd images, i like to thank you.

however, i've tried to get them to work about 5 hours now, without success. (i have read practically every post on this forum to get help)

getting smb to work: yes, i got it to "work" finally, took about 3 hours thou. there is misinformation on this forum about no password in windows logon: if you do not have password on windows logon, then you do not add just "some" password to config.xml file!

example:
<path>smb://username:[email protected]/folder</path> <---wrong
<path>smb://[email protected]/folder</path> <---right

anyway, my problem is that although smb shows my content of shared folder, it does not play them! so far i tried .mpg and .img files and they do not work. when i press a all it does is blank screen about 1 sec and then it shows again my content of shared folder.

what i've done:
-allowed my firewall to accept everything from ip: 192.168.0.2
-disabled "digitally sign client communication" on win2000
-shared folder and full access to everybody
-my pc does not belong to a domain
-xbmc allows me to ftp

so please help me. gettin smb to work but not to work is annoying...

[gmackenz]

i've always had that problem...i've been forced to constantly fix what i assume is a windoze xp/2000 weird-ass implimentation of security in sharing/ntfs. after downloading something new, i have to log in as the user i share to the xbmc and my mac g4 cube 'puter on windoze pc and then right mouse click the file to apply full sharing and disable read-only permissions in both the general and sharing tabs of the properties screen for the new file.

only then am i able to access the file remotely and play/modify it on my mac or the xbmc!

damn irritating of winblows...wish i could get rid of the pc entirely, as my mac and the xbox get along swimmingly with the new 3.0.x samba code ported into xbmc this december.

[Calathia]

gmackenz, i did not quite follow your answer.

both "general" and "sharings" tabs are anly in folders, not in files. in shared folder i have default setup:
general: read only no, archive no.
sharing->permissions: everyone fullcontrol yes, change yes, read yes.
security: everyone acces to everything
allow inheritable permissions from parent......yes

on shared files i have:
general: read ony no, hidden no.
security: everyone access to everything
allow inheritable permissions from parent......yes

what option is wrong?

p.s. since i do not have a domain, everytime i start windows, i logon as "deka" without password, and user "deka" has administrator rights...

[tslayer]

if you have granted everyone access, then try just this:

smb://192.168.0.1/folder/

as your path.

ts

[Calathia]

if you have granted everyone access, then try just this:

smb://192.168.0.1/folder/

as your path.

ts

doesn't work. in xbmc it shows only empty folder and win2000 shows that nobody is connected to computer. hard to believe that this is the solution...

[Calathia]

i got it to work!

the problem was that i used the same login as in windows. all i had to to was created new user in windows. and now dvd's are streaming like never before

btw, menus are not supported but main movie is still played!

man i love your program.