believe or not. i made it :kickass: and here is the success story for other noobs.
originally i had following configuration:
- adsl router (enabling internet connection)
- pc with one nic (via vt6102 rhine ii fast ethernet adapter) and windows 2000 sp3
- xbox 1.1 with solderless sp.ice, x2 5035 as bios, xbmc build 2005-05-02
- both pc and xbox were connected to router and router to internet
1) no matter what i did in xboxmediacenter.xml, with or without router i couldn't get smb network share to work. i followed every details in
guides for xp sharing and setting up smb, for both the beginner and pro but no. actually it's a good idea to leave "everyone" with full control to shared folder until you are absolutely sure everything works fine. afterwards it can be removed.
2) in "my computer - manage - system tools - shared folders - shares" i saw my shares perfectly. but if i tried to add network places from "my network places - add network places" i got following error:
the network place could not be added because the following error has occured: the network path was not found. i tried to browse "my network places - entire network - microsoft windows network - workgroup" and got an error:
workgroup is not accessible. the list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available.
3) at this point i was really frustrated. i went to shop and bought second nic (realtek rtl8139/810x family fast ethernet nic). i installed card and drivers which came with card. at first try nothing seems to work. both nic's were enabled, didn't have any hardware conflicts but no network or internet access. i took second nic off and uninstalled just installed drivers and all others old/hidden network hardware drivers "start - settings - control panel - add/remove hardware". just be carefully when you do that. if you don't know how to do it don't do it.
4) second time i took a fresh start and installed card again to different pci slot with latest drivers from realtek. i followed excellent instructions from
microsoft ics - internet connection sharing one of the key steps was install netbeui protocol to second nic (i don't know why i was missed that in first place. i think that was reason for step 2 errors) now xbox was connected to second nic and first nic was connected to router and router to internet. i changed workgroup name to mygroup. i was able to browse in pc e.g. "my network places - entire network - microsoft windows network - mygroup - movies" but got error:
not enough server storage is available to process this command.
5) luckily i found explanation from
not enough server storage and changed irpstacksize from 11 to 15. i booted and no errors any more in pc side. i also updated sp4 but i am not sure has it any effect on this. anyway its good to run sp after hardware installation.
6) in xbox i did following changes to xboxmediacenter.xml
<samba>
<workgroup>mygroup</workgroup>
<winsserver>-</winsserver>
<debuglevel>0</debuglevel>
<defaultusername>xbox</defaultusername>
<defaultpassword>password</defaultpassword>
</samba>
<path>smb://xbox:
[email protected]/movies</path>
i set xbmc to use dhcp (it got ip 192.168.0.54 from pc) and i saw rss feed again, browsing in my movies was success and i am happy happy man :-)
phiuuhh...that was a battle but i won. let's see who will win the war. there's still a lot things to do... :thumbsup: