My XBMC machine is an Acer Revo. It has a 320GB hard drive that is partitioned as follows.
16GB Ext4 - This has XBMC installed on it
4GB Swap
300GB NTFS - This holds my music library.
I have already mounted the NTFS drive so that I can use my music library on XBMC but I also want to share it so I can access it on other systems on my network.
How do I achieve this?
Thank in advance for your help.
For anyone looking for the answer to this I found it in a thread from ages ago. After pressing [CTRL] [ALT] + [F1] and logging in with username and password I followed this guide.
danz0l Wrote:Hi Jason
I just did a
Code:
sudo apt-get install samba
to install samba server
then edited the conf file
Code:
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
And wrote within (to share all the mounted drives under /media and asumes your username password are XBMC).
Code:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = XBMCLive
security = SHARE
auth methods = guest
domain master = No
wins support = Yes
[Downloads]
comment = Downloads Folder
path = /home/xbmc/downloads
force user = xbmc
inherit permissions = yes
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
[Media]
comment = Media
path = /media
force user = xbmc
inherit permissions = yes
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
[System]
comment = XBMC System Share
path = /home/xbmc/.xbmc
force user = xbmc
inherit permissions = yes
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
This allows me to connect to the revo from my windows computers and see and write to all the usb drives mounted on my XBMC system as well as access the XBMC filesystem and local downloads. Doesn't ask for a password.
This works well with EMM.
Hope that helps.