2018-09-02, 15:17
I'm running Kodi 17.6 on numerous Windows 10 PCs with a shared MySQL DB and content shared from a Windows Server 2012 R2 NAS.
I'm now wanting to add Kodi 18 beta 1 on Xbox One into the mix.
The sources paths on all of my Windows PCs quite happily use \\servername\share\contentfolder convention
On the Xbox One, I've found that I can't seem to resolve the servername in the same fashion and have had to use the server IP address, i.e.\\serverIPaddress\share\contentfolder
If I configure the Kodi on Xbox One to use the MySQL database to access the same content (i.e. music, TV Shows, Movies) but using IP address instead of NetBIOS name for the server in the source path, am I going to somehow mess up the MySQL DB? Will I end up with duplicates of everything due to the source paths not being identical?
Given the full path of each piece of content is stored as strPath in the path table in the myvideos107 db I'm guessing the answer is that is imperative to have identical sources.xml on all devices access the shared MySQL DB..?
If so, what are my best options?
Convert the Windows Kodi installs source paths to server IP instead of NetBIOS name, rescan library, and then I can simply copy the sources.xml over to the Xbox One as-is?
Is there a way of doing a hosts file for Kodi on the Xbox One so it coiuld resolve the server NetBIOS name and thus I could just copy a sources.xml across from my Windows PC?
Other?
I'm now wanting to add Kodi 18 beta 1 on Xbox One into the mix.
The sources paths on all of my Windows PCs quite happily use \\servername\share\contentfolder convention
On the Xbox One, I've found that I can't seem to resolve the servername in the same fashion and have had to use the server IP address, i.e.\\serverIPaddress\share\contentfolder
If I configure the Kodi on Xbox One to use the MySQL database to access the same content (i.e. music, TV Shows, Movies) but using IP address instead of NetBIOS name for the server in the source path, am I going to somehow mess up the MySQL DB? Will I end up with duplicates of everything due to the source paths not being identical?
Given the full path of each piece of content is stored as strPath in the path table in the myvideos107 db I'm guessing the answer is that is imperative to have identical sources.xml on all devices access the shared MySQL DB..?
If so, what are my best options?
Convert the Windows Kodi installs source paths to server IP instead of NetBIOS name, rescan library, and then I can simply copy the sources.xml over to the Xbox One as-is?
Is there a way of doing a hosts file for Kodi on the Xbox One so it coiuld resolve the server NetBIOS name and thus I could just copy a sources.xml across from my Windows PC?
Other?