Linux Samba shares on XBMC

[fitterhans]

I recently was gifted a soft modded XBox with an old version of XBMC. Due to time constraints, I am holding off on loading the newest version. However, I am really having a tough time get shares work for streaming media off my sever. I found an old thread here: http://www.modzone.dk/forums/showthread ... readid=266 wich basically says add this to XboxMediaCenter.xml :

<bookmark>
<name>Network My PC</name>
<path>smb://ComputerName/MySharedDrives</path>
</bookmark>

I have tried any number of things that show my share in explorer on another networked machine, but can not seem to get xbmc to find my shared folders. my shared folder on my linux server can be accessed via explorer in windows by typing:

\\gateway.trevojo.lan\flex-music
or
\\clarkconnect\flex-music

I would assume that since "flex-music" is a samba share, I should be able to access it via xbmc but I have tried:

<bookmark>
<name>Network My PC</name>
<path>\\clarkconnect\flex-music</path>
</bookmark>

<bookmark>
<name>Network My PC</name>
<path>\\gateway.trevojo.lan\flex-music</path>
</bookmark>

<bookmark>
<name>Network My PC</name>
<path>smb://gateway.trevojo.lan/flex-music</path>
</bookmark>

etc...

Must be missing something stupid here. Any thoughts? (I could give a better breakdown of my network, but I will hold off unless necessary. Also, my xbox is connected to the network as I can ftp in to change/edit files)

[philipofmacedon]

Maybe I'm being dense, but why not just upgrade to a newer version of XBMC? I have a linux server running here at the house and I've never had a problem streaming videos to my Xbox with it. It's been a while since I played around with XBMC but I don't recall upgrading to a newer version to be too difficult.

[fitterhans]

could give that a try as it is my eventual plan, and sinking countless hours into configuring an old version just doesn't seem to make much sense...

[Hatta]

I haven't had to edit any XML to get shares working on XBMC. Basically, I just configure a share so it can be seen from windows. Then I can browse to videos->workgroup, I see my workgroup and share in there. You're probably just dealing with an old broken install of XBMC.

[t0yrobo]

Waiting a bit may be your best bet. I used to not be able to get my samba from my linux box working also. I don't know how much it's changed since I don't have that computer anymore. Grabbing the latest t3ch build may make things much easier either way.

[fitterhans]

So, dl latest xbmc, installed, found shares no problem. Now to get them to play... Thanks for the suggestions. Getting the latest version was a big help.