[crazymike08]

Hi All:

Newbie question here.

Just finishing installing XBMC(I assumed it is latest version from apt-get install xbmc) after a fresh install of Xubuntu. I was trying to add a samba network location to my video files. However, after I restart xbmc or reboot, the file list is disappeared.

Suppose I am adding a shared name TV at location 192.168.1.2 with id/pass=1234/5678

My steps:
Videos -> Files -> Add Videos -> Browse -> Add Network location:
Protocol: SMB
Server Name: 192.168.1.2
Shared Folder: TV
Username: 1234
Password 5678

OK-> (Click smb://192.168.1.2/TV) -> OK.
(Back to Add Video Source page) -> Click Add -> OK.
(Now the video source TV is added).

I close xbmc, restart.

Go back to Video-> Files. (TV is gone), I try to add it again:
Add Videos -> Browse
(smb://192.168.1.2/TV) is still there.

Is there anyway I can make my video sources persistent?

Thank you all.


Edit:

Manually add ~/.xbmc/userdata/sources.xml And re-add the SMB share again does the trick.

[nickr]

They are perisitent, but you may be starting XBMC before the network is up on your computer, or when the smb server is otherwise not available.

[crazymike08]

Hi:

Thanks for the reply. However, this time I make sure that the SMB server is up, and the network is up and running before I start XBMC. I also try to not do anything before I click Video when XBMC starts up. All these options, however, did not work. I still have to manually add video sources in order for me to get it in the list. Do you think it is possible that I install Xubuntu or XBMC wrong?

Thanks.

[nickr]

Are the sources listed in ~/.xbmc/userdata/sources.xml ? (I think that is the file, i am not near a linux machine with xbmc at present)

[crazymike08]

Yes the sources are listed in ~/.xbmc/userdata/mediasources.xml, also in passwords.xml

[nickr]

what about sources.xml?

[crazymike08]

Nope. There's no sources.xml

[nickr]

That is weird because that is where video sources are defined.

[crazymike08]

Can you tell me the format and I'll try to manually add it and see if it does the trick?

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Ah. Saw this post http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Use...urce_types

I manually add a sources.xml and restart XBMC, and add it again. This does the trick. (The sources.xml is overwritten to be the correct format.)

Thanks for your help

[Kib]

I guess your xbmc user has no rights to create files in the userdata - could that be possible ?

[crazymike08]

I checked that before. XBMC user has rights. As a stupid attempt I also tried to set permission as 777 for all files under the directory. Not working. So I changed it back.

[nickr]

I wonder if this is related to this bug:

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/14272

Which has been fixed in master:

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/84e1...17a2a09ef9