2009-07-25, 05:59
Read through this and quite a few other threads in the forum. It appears to me that there are basically two ways to access the same library from two computers running XBMC:
1) Symlink the path from one computer pointing it to the other library
2) Manual copy and paste of the library
While I understand option 1 to be the more elegant, I would actually prefer option 2. One question before I go ahead. All my movies are on the computer with XBMC 1 and XBMC 2 accesses the files over SMB (of computer 1).
In order now to make the "copy&paste" technique work, do I need to change the path of XBMC 1? It currently just points on the local disk. Do I need to change this that XBMC actually goes through SMB although it would be on the same local harddisk?
1) Symlink the path from one computer pointing it to the other library
2) Manual copy and paste of the library
While I understand option 1 to be the more elegant, I would actually prefer option 2. One question before I go ahead. All my movies are on the computer with XBMC 1 and XBMC 2 accesses the files over SMB (of computer 1).
In order now to make the "copy&paste" technique work, do I need to change the path of XBMC 1? It currently just points on the local disk. Do I need to change this that XBMC actually goes through SMB although it would be on the same local harddisk?