[logan_x50]

Hi,

My AFP sources stopped working I've no clue why. I could connect to an AFP source on my iMac but not on the external hdd (HFS). Tried to create new sources and although they would connect and i could scrape etc they just would not play. Rather than mess about any more I moved to NFS as the advice is AFP is buggy (and I can't get SMBup to work)

NFS sources all playing well (although I miss the spinning wheel while the source is "loading" now)

Problem with NFS as noted in the wiki is Mountain Lion powers down...so I can use Caffeine or stop the iMAC from going to sleep. The former is ok for me but a bit much for the Mrs to remember when trying to play something for the kids and the latter just seems a bit environmentally unsound.

....(and I'll get to the point) if I connect my External HDD to Airport Extreme will SMB shares work...or SMB support is also cooked on AE?

...any other advice on AE before i splash out?

Ta

[logan_x50]

No reply so I figured it must have been a noob question and I took the plunge. Well...setup was ok as far as getting AEBS on my network, a bit of trial and error on the configuration required but got there in the end. So then trying to edit my sources for my new AEBS+External HDD combo. I can only say zeroconf didn't work for me..it shows the AEBS ok but can't reach the hdd it seems. However, looking at some other posts I found I could connect by manually entering (with the atv remote ouch!) smb://username:diskpassword@IPaddressOfAEBS/NameOfAirDiskVolume/Directory/

I set my AEBS as a static IP address on my router so I hopefully won't have to enter all my sources again. AEBS is set to disk password.

Now if I can only figure out why I keep getting "Server connections interrupted" popup I'll be there (nothing to do with XBMC)

[Ned Scott]

As you've already found out, SMB should work just fine on AE.

However, some people have had some really weird issues in the past with using AE as a file server for XBMC. It's not something I've had an issue with on my own AE, but it does seem to be a real issue for some people. We've had lots of threads about it, and it's stumped a lot of us.

Because of that, sometimes we run away in fear from AE questions because we tried so hard but couldn't figure it out ;)

However, it sounds like you have it working out alright now? Is the "Server connections interrupted" popup happening within XBMC?

[logan_x50]

Hello Ned,

Yes so far so good. Have given the set-up a quick smoke test playing some HD content, small step and large step forwarding etc. Will continue to play around.

No the "server connections interrupted" is on my imac...seems to be a very common issue https://discussions.apple.com/thread/426...0&tstart=0