[yoda230]

I have an acer revo 3600 running Ubuntu 10.04 with XBMC from the stable PPA on it. I have set up an image source to a mac on the LAN. When I browse through the folders you can see the filenames, but when you try and display a photo then just a blank screen is shown. Note that no thumbnails are shown either. The photos are ~3MB in size JPEG.

Any idea what could be going wrong and how I could debug it? What more information do you need. The debug log says this for example:
21:29:19 T:2998926192 M:911183872 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file: smb://BREWER-IMAC/Shared/iPhoto Library/Originals/2010/New Forest 2010 part 1/DSCF6455.JPG
21:30:42 T:3019221872 M:907476992 ERROR: CreateThumbnail: Unable to create thumbfile special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Pictures/4/4fc2cc94.tbn from image smb://BREWER-IMAC/Shared/iPhoto Library/Originals/2010/New Forest 2010 part 1/DSCF6455.JPG

Running videos from the same machine seems to be working fine.

Many thanks

[chanders]

Check the permission on the photos. Make sure they are readable by users on the system.

[yoda230]

The problem was that I wasn't logged in as a user but as a guest. Many thanks.