[tlongarms]

Hi,

Long time reader and first time poster. I haven't been able to find this information so please be gentle if this has been asked before. Ok here goes....

My current set up has XBMC for windows installed on a Windows 7 machine with access to three 2TB NTFS partitions.

I wish to use XBMC live because its better, well its just faster and tidier. However because of the way I download I wish to keep the 3TB drives as NTFS and also make them accessible to a Windows Machine on my home network.

Is this possible and if so how? Any help will be appreciated.

Cheers

[Wozza_au]

Hi
I currently run 2X 2tb drives in external enclosures(USB2) both have ntfs formatting and work fine under xbmc live...
There are many ways you could set it all up.....NAS....samba shares....ect ect
I just found the external HD enclosures for all my media the easiest, as I can take it with me,move between systems (as my wifi is sloooow) and it makes XBMC main program back up's a lot quicker
Check out this ...http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Win...BA/CIFS%29

Wozza

[tlongarms]

Thanks for the reply and the useful link.

I think I may be able to apply the Samba shares with internal drives, if so that is great.

I used to run on external drives but got fed up of the slow transfer rate between disks (Best 20MBS) so I switched to Gigabit Lan and can transfer at over 100MBS. But the guide looks straightforward and I am competent with unix so should be fine. This could well be the best way.

Cheers.

[vikjon0]

you can enable auto mount by removing nodiskmount from grub command line
OR
mount the partition in fstab

then you have to install and config samba. Google.

[tlongarms]

Thanks mate. I may just do that.

[luger]

I didn't end up going with Samba shares... So if you choose not to, this may be helpful... What I had to do was go into the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + F2) or SSH in with Putty... Then, enter:

Code:

sudo blkid

That should generate a list so that you can see what the machine is calling your external drive (mine was sdb1). We'll assume yours is also sdb1 and that it's a NTFS drive and you want to have the files from the drive show up in a folder called myfiles. So, go ahead and enter:

Code:

mkdir myfiles
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 myfiles

If you want to call the folder something different than myfiles or if your external drive wasn't sdb1 or wasn't NTFS, you would edit those to your liking. Now, what you'll need to do is enter:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Go to the end of that file and create a line that only says:

Code:

/dev/sdb1 /home/user/myfiles ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Change the user portion to whatever your XBMC username is and alter the other details (sdb1, myfiles) to what we did above as well. At that point, you can press CTRL-X to save and exit. Now, to finish it up, you'll need to enter:

Code:

sudo mount -a

And, you should be good to go. You can check to make sure it works by typing:

Code:

cd myfiles
dir

And, seeing if the files on your drive show up. Or you can go back into XBMC Live (Ctrl+Alt+F7) and check from there. If it's working, try restarting and making it sure it's still working on reboot. If so, you should be good to go from there.