I've been trying for 3 days now, browsing for guides and trying whatever they suggestion. And I've been browsing forums and tried the same. I've allso tried Sharepoints. I have it installed, but I didn't get it to work, and it screwed permissions for me so my computer got all nuts. Suddenly everything was permission denyed on Mac OSX Volume. Permission was set on "unknown" and I had to go through disk utillity to get permission set right. So I'de rather not use Sharepoints again. And some of the guides says I shouldn't need to use it.
Two days ago, I got it actually to work. All of a sudden,..it just worked and I wasnät really sure what I did. However, it was the wrong directory. I didnt want to share my user-directory. I wantoed to share another Volume on my computer. While trying to get it to work, I lost everything and now I cant seem to get anything right anymore. I have chosen to start from scratch with default settings from a original file
that I have on my computer for XboxMediaCenter.xml.
While studying the XboxMediaCenter.xml file,.. I find I can type that smb://ip/ at quite many places. So it al gets a bit confucing. So if anyone have the patients of reading about my progress here, I would be greateful for comments of wrongdoing observations.
I have Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.7 G4 Dual 1.25 Ghz
My preferenses on computer, (not using Sharepoints, but it is installed)
Sharing: (it's all in swedish, so translation might not be all correct)
Personal Sharing on
Window Sharing on (accountsetting on "Lacrisol" witch is default user)
- it says windowsuser will find me at \\192.168.0.x\Lacrisol
(dont know about hacking, but the x is a number. Dont worry)
Having a look at the directory and permissions, in Mac OSX I have
the "Users" directory. When taking info on these directories I see:
To begin with, all directories say that I have clearence to read and write.
Owner: Lacrosol: r+w
Group: Lacrosol r+w
Others: r
Next directory is "Lacrosol"
Owner: Lacrosol r+w
Group: Lacrosol r+w
Others: r
Next directory are Musik/Movies/Pictures etc...
Owner: Lacrosol r+w
Group: Lacrosol r+w
Others: r
The patchways should be /Users/Lacrosol/Musik as I see it.
If it's of any useful information, the root volume, Mac OS HD are owned by System, r+w, Group is admin r+w and others can only read.
Alright,.. next thing should be the Xbox.
Networksettings in Xbox Media Center:
Network: manual Static IP.
IP adress 192.168.0.x (not the same as computer or router)
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1
(I havent bothered with other preferenses here)
Enable FTP server is on.
Xbox Autodetection is on.
SMB Share:
Setting Mode, Advances user
SMB IP: 192.168.0.x (my computers ip )
SMB Workgroup: WORKGROUP
SMB Username: Lacrosol
SMB Password: Secret
SMB Wins-server:
SMB Sharename SMB Network
SMB Sharegroup: Musik&Video & Pictures & Files
Next thing would be the XboxMediaCenter.xml file.
To beging with, the Samba preferenses.
[quote]<samba>
<workgroup>WORKGROUP</workgroup>
<smbip>192.168.0.x/</smbip>
<smbsharename>(SMB) Network</smbsharename>
<defaultusername>Lacrosol</defaultusername>
<defaultpassword>Secret</defaultpassword>
<winsserver>-</winsserver>
<debuglevel>0</debuglevel>
</samba>
[/quote]
Next is on the videoshare section, at the end of it.
[quote]<bookmark>
<name>(SMB) Network</name>
<path>smb://192.168.0.x/</path>
</bookmark>
</video>[/quote]
Now... I've laborated with this before. Looking at a few guides and suggestions on the net. Belowe is a default example from the xbmc-file.
[quote]<!-- My Videos shares !-->
<video>
<default />
<bookmark>
<name>E Drive</name>
<path>E:\</path>
</bookmark>
[/quote]
I'll change it to:
[quote]<!-- My Videos shares !-->
<video>
<default />
<bookmark>
<name>Film</name>
<path>smb://Locrosol:secret@192.168.0.x</path>
</bookmark>
[/quote]
I'll put it in through ftp and restarts the xbox. When I connect to SMB Network, all I get is pre-shared printingdrivers. Thats all.
If I chose not to go through SMB Network, I can go for the icon named Film.
(It's at the same list as SMB Network, under DVD-ROM drive and F drive)
If i click it,...nothing happends.
Alrigt,.. nothing should happen. I've tried this for 3 days now so no supprise there. Suppose the box dont find the path all the way,.. maby I'll have to extend the pathway.
Plan B: I'll type in Locrosol:secret@192.168.0.x/Users
This should as faar as I can se, make the directory Locrosol be vicible on the box. I'll save the XboxMediaCenter.xml file and ftp it to the box and restart it.
This is by the way how it looks like now.
[quote]<!-- My Videos shares !-->
<video>
<default />
<bookmark>
<name>Film</name>
<path>smb://Locrosol:Secret@192.168.0.x/Users</path>
</bookmark>
[/quote]
The only changes here is that when chosing "Film" as before, it say, "Remote share: Could not connect to network server"
When chosing (SMB) Network, my printer-drives appear again.
Ok,.. so that didn't work eighter. No supprise, I've done it over and over again for 3 days. And maby it should work,.. /Users might not be enough. I'll try adding Locrosol. But first, I'll see if there's a case censetive-problem involved. I'll change username and all involving pathways into small characters instead.
It does now look like this with small characters.
[quote]<!-- My Videos shares !-->
<video>
<default />
<bookmark>
<name>Film</name>
<path>smb://locrosol:secret@192.168.0.x/users</path>
</bookmark>
[/quote]
As expected, nothing came of it. Only printingdrivers show up.
Now let's add /users/locrosol
[quote]<!-- My Videos shares !-->
<video>
<default />
<bookmark>
<name>Film</name>
<path>smb://locrosol:secret@192.168.0.x/users/locrosol</path>
</bookmark>
[/quote]
Nothing to it exept the usual. But maby users should be replaced with Locrosol instead? ip/Locrosol. Iäll try it and it looks like this.
[quote]<!-- My Videos shares !-->
<video>
<default />
<bookmark>
<name>Film</name>
<path>smb://locrosol:secret@192.168.0.x/locrosol</path>
</bookmark>
[/quote]
Only printingdrivers show up. But ok, maby I'm working at the wrong area. I would think that <!-- My Videos shares !--> is not the area where I should be at, couse when I got this to work once, I just wrote the ip and stuff at one place, and I dont think I even had user:pass@Ip/ configuration. If I remember corectly,..I just had the ip, and then I accessed everything on the user-directory. So where would this (one) place be?
Next I will try to access at this area on the XboxMediaCenter.xml -file.
[quote]<bookmark>
<name>(SMB) Network</name>
<path>smb://192.168.0.x/</path>
</bookmark>
</video>[/quote]
I'll begin with just adding users/ after ip, like this (the area is in the same section as <!-- My Videos shares !-->)
[quote]<bookmark>
<name>(SMB) Network</name>
<path>smb://192.168.0.x/users</path>
</bookmark>
</video>[/quote]
I kind of knew it wouldn't work. But it's a sign I might work in the right area. Couse this time it really didn't work at all. I got "Remote share: Could not connect to network server" And those persistant printingdrives didn't show up at all...finaly, hurray.
Alright,.. this is not the first time this happends. I've suspected this would be the right area to work on for quite some time. It's not the first time this happends.
So,.. I recon it wont be of any value to ad /Locrosol after users, but I'll do it anyway for safe keeping. And yes...no changes there.
So let's try the User:pass@ip/ configuration instead.
[quote] <bookmark>
<name>(SMB) Network</name>
<path>smb://Locrosol:secret@192.168.0.x/</path>
</bookmark>
</video>[/quote]
Thistime the SMB Network works and those printingdrivers appear again. Hurray! But that's all. So let's ad on "users" after the ip.
[quote] <bookmark>
<name>(SMB) Network</name>
<path>smb://Locrosol:secret@192.168.0.x/users</path>
</bookmark>
</video>[/quote]
Success! I get "Could not connect to network server" .. so we can conclude that ading something after ip does noone any good. By the way,.. I am thinking about "user" instead of Users,.. but when I look how my computer say it,.. it says /Users/ and so on... so I see no reason to change that.
So... I'm actually only got one more thing left to do, and it's to try /Locrosol after IP.
[quote] <bookmark>
<name>(SMB) Network</name>
<path>smb://Locrosol:secret@192.168.0.x/locrosol</path>
</bookmark>
</video>[/quote]
Could not connect to server.
Well.... that's it. I'm left clueless. This is what I've been doing over and over again the last 3 days. I'd be willing to donate my balls in order to make this work now. I'm really sick of it. Oh, by the way. Locrosol is not the username I use for real, same with "secret" as password. I just didn't think it would be clever to give away real user and pass in a forum. The x on ip is not the same on the mac as on xbox. If they where I guess I would have som eother problems aswell. But there are evidently communication between my mac and xbox sense it sense the printingdrivers.
If anyone have had the patiens to read this faar, I would be greateful for any suggestions on any wrongdoing. I really would be glad to get this working.