Xbmc For Xbox - April 23rd 2009 Svn Rev19585 9.04-beta1, compiled by T3CH Options

[Bomb Bloke]

@grimgriefer: Could simply be your IP settings are out. Are you able to browse the SMB network, as opposed to attempting to connect directly to the server?

[kiber]

Seems my crashes are caused by using my startup playlist script together with MC360. So long as I use one or the other it's fine, but both together? Nope, the "Audioscrobbler thread" starts throwing exceptions and it all goes kablewy.

Guess it's PMIII for me, then. (Though I seem to have no problems using other skins; Xii and xTV work fine).

This problem can be solved by adding delay in autoexec.py script before executing playlist

import xbmc, time

time.sleep(3)

...

[grimgriefer]

@grimgriefer: Could simply be your IP settings are out. Are you able to browse the SMB network, as opposed to attempting to connect directly to the server?

Thanks for the response.

IP settings are correct and the Xbox-Scene ticker works on the homepage. IP is being picked up via DHCP from my router.

When I click on the Samba share I can see Workgroup and then Server but when I click on server it prompts me for a username and password. Previously this doesn't happen because of the details already being stored in the sources.xml file.

<path>smb://WORKGROUP;username:password@Server/</path>

If I go back to the older version with the same sources.xml file it works without prompting me for the username and password.

Should I be writing the script in the sources.xml file in a different way now?

[grimgriefer]

Double post but what the hell.

Ok so if I put in the administrator username and password when prompted it works and I can see all my shares and all media works. So I went into the XBMC network settings and added those username and password details uner the SMB section and it now works......ALMOST!

So I edited my source.xml to the following:

<source>
<name>(1) SMB</name>
<path>smb://</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>(2) SMB WORKGROUP</name>
<path>smb://WORKGROUP</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>(3) SMB WORKGROUP Server</name>
<path>smb://WORKGROUP/Server</path>

When I open XBMC and click on either the (1) or (2) options it works fine. Selecting option (2) for example will show all the computers in the workgroup on my Lan and I can then select them to open their individual shares.

However, when I select option (3) it still refuses to open saying the remote share is not available even though I can get to it via option (2).

I just don't get it!!!

[Bomb Bloke]

Did you specifically have the term "username:password" in there before, or was that just an "generic example"?

[kics]

thnx dude

[grimgriefer]

Did you specifically have the term "username:password" in there before, or was that just an "generic example"?

Yup specifically in there before. It was used in all of the XBMC release I used up till I stopped updating in July 2008. Any release before that date would always work with my original source.xml file. However any release afterwards always started giving me the problem I have been experiencing now with samba share access.

[Bomb Bloke]

Ah, so the "could not connect to network server" was likely because the logon details were present but not acceptable. Compare this to connecting without the logon details, where the system prompts you to provide some.

Work your way through this stuff, it could well be your server side settings aren't what they used to be.

[grimgriefer]

Ah, so the "could not connect to network server" was likely because the logon details were present but not acceptable. Compare this to connecting without the logon details, where the system prompts you to provide some.

Work your way through this stuff, it could well be your server side settings aren't what they used to be.

Could be but it makes no sense to me that an older version of XBMC would work fine and the newer ones don't. Thanks for the link and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one having the problem. Activating the guest account on my Vista computer/server makes no difference to the problem.

Incidentally where is the sources.xml file in the new revisons of XBMC as I can't find it when I install it. I just copy my old one into the USERDATA folder and it seems to read it. I would like to see if another XML file is configuring the locations and this is why it's not reading the username and password parameters correctly.

[grimgriefer]

Right, I got it sorted.

I was editing the sources.xml to point to:

<path>smb://WORKGROUP/Server</path>

When all I had to do was point it to:

<path>smb://Server</path>

Leave the username and password details out of the xml file and instead put then into the SMB client details section under Network Settings in XBMC.

Works an absolute treat now.

[Bomb Bloke]

"Sources.xml" isn't a part of a fresh XBMC install. It either gets generated the first time you start the program, or you import the one you used with the last install.

[grimgriefer]

Yeah that's what I thought but it didn't seem to create a new one for me. I may be wrong though and just not noticed.

Anyone now why Project Mayhem doesn't just link directly to the games folder anymore and why PM3.HD has no programs link at all anymore?

[grimgriefer]

Nevermind, I found the programs option in the Skin Settings page.

Everything is working a treat now, well happy.

[v_lestat]

T3CH XBMC 2009-05-01 SVN rev19856-9.04-RC1

a new one got dumped today

go go gadget XBMC!!

[elitegamer360]

T3CH XBMC 2009-05-01 SVN rev19856-9.04-RC1

a new one got dumped today

go go gadget XBMC!!

just tested it this morning looks good