[starcraft04]

Hi all,

I have a PC running XBMC (on windows) and a raspberry pi (on raspbmc). I have a nas with mysql and I have created an advancesettings.xml file on both installs.

I have done also the pathsubstitution for the video share and the username and password is entered in this xml file for the smb share for both devices.

The problem I have is that when the PC enters all the movies I have in the mysql database it is entering the link as smb://ip.address/movie/xxx.avi. Then on the raspberry pi, because it doesn't see the username password, it thinks it is not there because my smb server refuses guest.

Is there a way to say in xbmc that for the ip address of my smb share drive, it needs to use a specific credential or is it possible that the link it enters in the mysql database includes the username password?

Thanks for your help,

John.

[Kib]

Advancedsettings should have the location of your mysql database and the login for mysql.

Sources.xml should include the username and password (obviously!)

Code:

smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@NAS/share/videos/

If you think setting up two sources the same is a hassle you could use path substitution to point to a general sources.xml (still needs a password in it though).
IMHO when only using two XBMC machines it is more work setting up path substitution than just adding a source on both sides

If I misunderstood, please post your advancedsettings.xml here

[starcraft04]

Hi, thanks for the reply but that is something i have already done. the thing is that when i click on a movie it says it can t find it. And when i check the information about the movie in the db, i see the path to the movie doesn t include the user pass of the share drive. I think it is workin in windows because i have recorded the user pass of the share in windows already but i don t know how to do that in raspbmc.

Hope it is better explained.

Thanks,

John.

[nabz]

Hi
I'm using a NAS like you and all is working fine using this on sources.xml

<video>
<default pathversion="1"></default>
<source>
<name>Movies</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://xbmc:xbmcxbmc@Sharecenter/Movies/</path>
</source>
</video>

Perharps you can get more clues using the advanced logging.
Also, have you tried the credentials from Windows?

[Kib]

John, please just post your advancedsettings and sources.xml so we can have a look

[starcraft04]

Hi all,

Thanks for the help so far. Here is the content of my 2 files:
sources.xml
<sources>
<programs>
<default pathversion="1"></default>
</programs>
<video>
<default pathversion="1"></default>
<source>
<name>Anime Enfants</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://xbmc:[email protected]/Anime/</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>Films</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://xbmc:[email protected]/Films/</path>
<lockmode>1</lockmode>
<lockcode>81dc9bdb52d04dc20036dbd8313ed055</lockcode>
<badpwdcount>0</badpwdcount>
</source>
<source>
<name>Series</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://xbmc:[email protected]/Series/</path>
<lockmode>1</lockmode>
<lockcode>81dc9bdb52d04dc20036dbd8313ed055</lockcode>
<badpwdcount>0</badpwdcount>
</source>
<source>
<name>Manga</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://xbmc:[email protected]/Manga/</path>
<lockmode>1</lockmode>
<lockcode>81dc9bdb52d04dc20036dbd8313ed055</lockcode>
<badpwdcount>0</badpwdcount>
</source>
<source>
<name>Films famille</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://xbmc:[email protected]/Video/Jiajia/Films finished/</path>
</source>
</video>
<music>
<default pathversion="1"></default>
<source>
<name>Music</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://xbmc:[email protected]/music/</path>
</source>
</music>
<pictures>
<default pathversion="1"></default>
</pictures>
<files>
<default pathversion="1"></default>
</files>
</sources>


advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<videodatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>10.0.0.100</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>xbmc</user>
<pass>xbox123</pass>
</videodatabase>

<musicdatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>10.0.0.100</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>xbmc</user>
<pass>xbox123</pass>
</musicdatabase>

<videolibrary>
<importwatchedstate>true</importwatchedstate>
</videolibrary>

<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/playlists/</from>
<to>SMB://xbmc:[email protected]/xbmc/playlists/</to>
</substitute>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/keymaps/</from>
<to>SMB://xbmc:[email protected]/xbmc/keymaps/</to>
</substitute>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/sources.xml</from>
<to>SMB://xbmc:[email protected]/xbmc/sources.xml</to>
</substitute>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/favourites.xml</from>
<to>SMB://xbmc:[email protected]/xbmc/favourites.xml</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>


When I am in my raspbmc, if I go to files, I can play the movie just fine. But when I go to the library mode and I try to play the file it says the file no longer exists do you want to delete. And then if I hit the letter c and click on movie information, I can see the path to the movie that is smb://10.0.0.100/Movie/some film.avi and there I don't see the user:pass@ in the path.

Thanks,

John.

[PH-SYM]

I had a similar problem that was solved by putting the passwords in a seperate passwords.xml instead of the sources.xml.
The structure of the passwords.xml is:

Code:

<passwords>
<path>
<from pathversion="1">smb://server/</from>
<to pathversion="1">smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@server/</to>
</path>
</passwords>

As you can see it works as a sort of path substitution. I use an IP name instead of an address but it should work the same way.
I preferred it this way so I could easily seperate the logon accounts from the actual paths.

Hope this helps,
Allard.

[Kib]

Did you add the passwords at a later stage?
I have the idea that your library doesn't contain the passwords because you added them later.

In that case PH-SYM's suggestion would help you.

[starcraft04]

Hi guys,

you are great, the passwords file did the job.

Thanks for the help.

John.