Access XBMC smb shares within XBMCBuntu
#1
Hi, a curious question. i'm running XBMCBuntu which is working great, i wanted to understand why i couldn't use XBMC samba sources.
For example inside XBMC GUI i have configured it to use a Samba shares as a source for films, works well.
Checking the sources.xml confirms the configuration "smb://servername/blah"

If i want to use the same samba source in xbmcbuntu(in the terminal for copying files etc) i cannot find it how does xbmc accesses this share, surely it still needs to mount it etc, i don't really want to have to do the same thing twice and mount a samba share with the same source direction.

So in summary is there a way to leverage what XBMC already does with samba share and not configure my own (although easy enough to do) just for simplicities sake

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#2
I don't think you can do that. An alternative would be to create your own mounts that you can access through the terminal and point XBMC to the mounts for video.

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#3
Yes, that's what I did. I mounted my share to a local folder (/movies) and access that folder instead of directly accessing the share in XBMC.
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