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I just upgraded all of my systems (Linux Ubuntu server, Windows XP, AppleTV2) to the Eden Beta. I deleted the whole installation, including databases and thumbs, and decided to try again making all of the systems centralized. I followed the following wiki entry http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW..._libraries

None of my thumbnails show up. No files are created in the network share. XBMC crashes often, and the log file shows lots of:


The begining of the log file also shows lines such as:
which implies that XBMC is not honoring the pathsubstitution.

Here's my advancedsettings.xml file:
with USER and PASSWORD replaced

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm not sure if this is needed but you should try on each of your devices to add an SMB share from the share folder. You don't need to actually add the folder but what you want is the pop up that asks you to save the SMB credentials. Once you successfully log in and can view the shared files (with the credentials saved) try again to do what you're doing.

All of my sources already go to that machine and work correctly. They do not use the IP address however. I tried changing the pathsubstitution to use the machine name instead of the IP address (man that seams wrong...). Same result.

I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong. I'm doing the same thing as many others have, but it just doesn't work... I must be doing SOMETHING wrong. I get the same error when I use the masterprofile and/or profile thumbnail substitution on a windows XP box and an Ubuntu 11.10 box.

Debug log (level 3 to see if I could find anything else...):

Well, finally figured it out. I'm using the Ubuntu server for the Samba share. I had the share setup with full access to the user that was supposed to be connecting, but guest accounts were not allowed. I had to create a new share that was WIDE OPEN. That fixed the issue.

I'm having an issue with <pathsubstitution> code in advancedsetting.xml.

Running Beta2 Eden on both machines. Host in Win7, client is XP

Ive followed instructions to the letter and the library is updating from MySQL it appears, but I can't watch anything. It seems that the client XBMC is still looking for the old paths from my host computer and says that the file is not available when I try to watch....

What am I doing wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've pasted the code below.

<pathsubstitution>

<substitute>
<from>E:\TV\</from>
<to>SMB://HOST/TV/</to>
</substitute>
<substitute>
<from>F:\Movies A-Q\</from>
<to>SMB://HOST/Movies A-Q/</to>
</substitute>
<substitute>
<from>G:\Movies R-Z\</from>
<to>SMB://HOST/Movies R-Z/<to>
</substitute>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>SMB://HOST/Users/Andrew/AppData/Roaming/XBMC/userdata/Thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>

</pathsubstitution>

I just went through this same issue with Beta 3, and I had to remove the <substitute> tags around each .xml:


Now everything works properly, not sure why - the xml definitely seems wrong to me.

(2012-02-11, 21:46)bonesmcguire Wrote: [ -> ]I just went through this same issue with Beta 3, and I had to remove the <substitute> tags around each .xml:

Code:

<pathsubstitution>
    <substitute>
      <from>special://masterprofile/RssFeeds.xml</from>
      <to>smb://fileserver/XBMC/userdata/RssFeeds.xml</to>
      <from>special://masterprofile/sources.xml</from>
      <to>smb://fileserver/XBMC/userdata/sources.xml</to>
    </substitute>
  </pathsubstitution>

Now everything works properly, not sure why - the xml definitely seems wrong to me.

This is the only thing that worked for me too. I'm using the xbmc from the debian apt (xbmc 3:11.0-0.1)

Thanks. A bug ...