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One of my XBMC systems (Revo 1600) is set up with a 1.5TB external hard drive plugged into it via USB. On that particular machine, I'd like to be able to share the folders on the external drive so that they are accessible by a Windows 7 box (and two Macs if possible) that are on that particular network. I'd also like to do this without involving any sort of login prompt (i.e. no username/password required) for any of the machines that access the content. Admittedly, I haven't done too much research on this, so I apologize if I'm begging for a RTFM here. Anyway, would appreciate some help from you guys.
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oh, and if you do set it up so that you can browse your .xbmc folder using windows, be careful editing files - samba may change the mode on some things such that XBMC doesn't like them. best to continue to edit files natively in linux using nano or other *nix editor
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boykster,
My apologies for taking so long getting back to you. It was quite a few days before I was around the box on which I was planning to set up the sharing. Anyway, I just got around to setting this up and it works great. Thanks a lot for helping me on this. It is much appreciated.