[WiSo]

That's weird and I can't reproduce this.
I've created a directory with more than 10000 dummy files and opened the directory in the filemanager. XBMC is now blocked for a short period but less than 2 seconds.
Any other people have seen this behavior?

[tosh]

Ok , i compare with 8.10 atlantis official release

with 8.10 , i have direct acces to my folders.

I noted some differences between xbmc version 8.10 and xbmc smb

when add a source, choose "reseau windows(smb)"

_with 8.10 version i have first , workgroup, complete name of pc, and show perfectly special caracters in folder/file (ex : Séries TV)
it's possible to navigate to subfolder.

_with smb version, i have first, description of pc (surname), and not show perfectly special caracters in folder/file( ex S'square'ries Tv)
it's not possible to navigate to subfolder (when enter to shared folder, this folder is empty)

[WiSo]

I don't use the workgroup for the new client.
Concerning the special characters does a subfolder have special characters or the share?
Subfolders should work as I use UNICODE, share I might have to work on.
I tested only with samba and there the special character are transformed to underscores (seen in the windows network environment). Does anybody know how to configure samba to forward special characters?

[Clumsy]

Try adding:

dos charset = 850
unix charset = ISO8859-15

to your smb.conf global section. You might want to change unix charset or try and ommit that if you need utf.

[Corban987]

thanks works sweat now I can browse - I couldn't browse before
great work

[WiSo]

Try adding:

dos charset = 850
unix charset = ISO8859-15

to your smb.conf global section. You might want to change unix charset or try and ommit that if you need utf.

Thanks I'll try that. Found something similar with a search engine

[Clumsy]

I wonder why there are so many people who had problems with SMB shares, this always worked flawlessly for me with my Ubuntu Server. Maybe the problem was with shares on windows PCs ?

[WiSo]

That could be since XBMC uses the smb client from the samba packet.
Unfortunately the client for the win32 port is very old and to port a new one to win is a huge effort.
Therefore and due to the reported problems I decided to move to the win32 native functions.

[Clumsy]

Ah ok, will be interesting to see if my MicroXP installation has some of the features removed that are needed for the native smb functions. For one, I think I can only use the network with mapped drives but not the network environment. Let's see if I get a chance to test this this weekend.

[S4T4N]

Cool. I can browse via smb now when before I couldn't at all. Thanks man.

Also, just wondering if anyone else getting this strange behaviour or is it how it's meant to be for window xbmc.


Mapped smb://
-workes and shows me all devices connected to my workgroup


browse to my NAS...
smb://mybook
-able to see my 2 folders
-Public
-Personal


browse to smb://mybook/public
- unable to see any of my folders
- have 8 folders folders in there (ie, music/movies...etc)



This also happens if i map to smb://mybook
- see nothing





However it seems to only work if i map my path directly to smb://mybook/public
- can see all folders, subfolders (tried up to 3 tiers deep) and play files from there


The same happens to my friend while he was trying to access his shared drives for his pc. Can't see the folders' contents unless he map directly to them.


no issue of such on our xbox. We only need to map to smb and we can then browse to device without issues.


He is running win xp and I'm on vista.

[WiSo]

Thats of course not ok.
What are you shares? Public and Personal?
I tried it with my Debian box and Samba and locally with my Windows XP and I can browse fine.
What do you mean with map? where put you in the information? afaik the dialog just asks for the server name and share not for the URL (don't have it hear for testing)

[tosh]

Concerning the special characters does a subfolder have special characters or the share?

The shared folder ("Séries Tv")

In this shared folder, I can not read a file with an accent (eg: la dernière chance.avi). idem impossible to enter to subfolder containing an accent.

S4T4N

Mapped smb://
-workes and shows me all devices connected to my workgroup

browse to smb://mybook/public
- unable to see any of my folders
- have 8 folders folders in there (ie, music/movies...etc)

This also happens if i map to smb://mybook
- see nothing

Me too

[S4T4N]

What are you shares? Public and Personal?

Both folders are shared.

What do you mean with map?

Sorry if i was confusing. I meant adding the source path to access my media. I use the "Add Source" function and browse to the path I want to add. I don't type them in manually.

so to make things clearer, for example, I go to Music category on XBMC
Click on "Add Source"
Click on "Browse"
Select "Windows Network (SMB)"
Click on "OK" twice to save source

Path map= smb://

Browse through this new entry. I can see all machines including my NAS named "mybook".
Enter into "mybook" and I can see my two folders. (public & personal)
Click on any folder there and I can't see anything in those folder.


However I can see the content of my folder if i map directly to it by doing this....
Click on "Add Source"
Click on "Browse"
Select "Windows Network (SMB)"
Select "mybook"
Select "public"
Click on "OK" twice to save source

Path map= smb://mybook/public


Hope that clears things up abit.
I can send you screen shoots of it if you want.

[Perle2212]

---------------------------
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
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Runtime Error!

Program: C:\Program Files\XBMC\XBMC.exe



This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.


---------------------------
OK
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This message i get when i want to start XBMC with the new .exe

[JonasA]

I used to be able to play an episode of a series for maybe 15-20 mins and then it would stop. Since changing to this version I've not had any problems with SMB shares at all.