[bigEsmurf]

Hi all,

I'm experiencing a problem in XBMC Live, installed on a compal ifl90 type laptop. Most of the time when I boot and want to browse to my ReadyNAS Windows share, it gives me a 'Connection timed out' message right away. Most of the time a simple reboot doesn't do the trick, I need to unplug the power of the laptop (which has no battery, otherwise this would indeed be stupid ), and then everything works right away.

From another xbmc-live system everything works fine, so the ReadyNAS doesn't seem to be the problem.

I'm not a linux expert, though I know my way around for a bit. Things I noticed are that xbmc-live shows me an IP-address, so my guess is that something fails in CIFS, though I might be wrong.

What can I do to figure out what's the problem? I know how to get into the shell, so are there any logs which I can check? Maybe there's a way to automaticly reset CIFS, or other network stuff?

Any tips would be appreciated!

[rbrohman]

How are you doing the mount of the network drive?

I have the following in my fstab file:

Code:

//192.168.1.108/share   /path_i_want/to_mount   cifs   username=user,password=pass,_netdev   0 0

(fill in your own values for the IP, paths and login info)

The "_netdev 0 0" component is to delay the mount attempt until after the network connection has been established. Perhaps your mount is being attempted before it can locate your NAS?