SMB issue connecting to NAS MyBook World Edition

[lobaken]

Hi,

I want to thank all the WiiMC team for this great job they’re doing. Keep on, guys! Well, I just have a problem with WiiMC. I have all my media content in a NAS MyBook World Edition (it has linux inside) shared via SMB, but I have tried in all the possible ways and I’m not able to connect through wiimc. I know this is a problem related to the NAS box, not wiimc, but I want to let you know that I was able to connect through mplayer 0.70, and the connection failed in newer versions of mplayer and wiimc. If anyone is facing the same problem and has a way to solve it, I would really appretiate it. Until then, I’ll just use a regular extern hd to enjoy wiimc 🙂

Thanks again, guys.

[txarly]

Hello.
I have the same problem with my mbwe. It was working with 1.01 but not with 1.02. 😐
I try ftp and it’s the same result 😥

[DIMzone]

I am using an iomega ix2-200 as my NAS running 1.0.2 WiiMC… All of my content runs very well through SMB although I personaly would perfer FTP (this I haven’t got working yet). I would suggest filling in all information in settings… Example:

Name – SMB NAS Drive
ip – 192.168.1.69
share – public
user –
pass –

I am able to connect with no User and Pass because I allow anon login to my public folder… if you are unsure try your admin account on the NAS.

I have set up all 4 Wiis in my house and all run SMB fine except for the few issues discussed in the other threads with FF/WW causeing a few freezes.

Hope this helps.

[txarly]

I have no problem with my smb config on my MyBook 😉
It’s working very fine with Wiixplorer, Mplayer_ce 0.76, WiiMC 1.0.0 / 1.0.1, Samsung bdp3600, LG ms400h, Win 7 x64, Win XP pro, Ubuntu 😉
WiiMC 1.0.2 is the only one who’s not working 😥

Excuse me for my english

[axgarr]

Please, check if this is the possibily solution:

wiimc freezes if there are to many letters to load.

I reduced the length of all filenames and no freezes appear anymore – no matter which video was loaded before.

[lobaken]

Well, I have tried settings with and without user and password, case sensitive, etc. And I’m not able to connect through Wiixplorer or FCE Ultra, but it works with Mplayer CE 0.70… so I don’t know what else can I do in order to fix it.

[afreak]

txarly

You will see further down the page that I have a similar issue with a home built nas running tomato. mplayerce .72 is the newest that works. I submitted a bug report on this and a developer is working with me to solve it. I am not sure what options your NAS has but as a work around I am using FTP share and it works fine.

[lobaken]

Yep, I’ll use the FTP workaround. Thanks jbs.

[txarly]

Hello !

I’m resolving the problem with MyBook Blue Ring and SMB.
I must start Samba on deamon with a script, not with inetd.conf.

1° Create a script “S08samba” in /etc/init.d/ with this:

#!/bin/sh



# set samba_active=1 to activate samba

samba_active=1



[ 1 = $samba_active ] || exit 0



if [ -n "`pidof smbd`" ] ; then

echo "Stopping smbd:"

killall smbd

fi



if [ -n "`pidof nmbd`" ] ; then

echo "Stopping nmbd:"

killall nmbd

fi



sleep 2



echo "Starting nmbd:"

/usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf

echo "Starting smbd:"

/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf

2) edit inetd.conf in /etc and erase smb part

3) reboot your MyBook

And MyBook’s samba finally run with wiimc !

[lobaken]

Man, it works! 😮 I’ve been trying to make this connection work for months, seriously, first with Mplayer CE and now with WiiMC. Yesterday I tried the ftp workaround that jbs suggested, but ftp in wiimc is pretty buggy (only worked a few times), but this is GREAT. Thank you so so much!! I

[Matoking]

@murigny64 wrote:

Hello !

I’m resolving the problem with MyBook Blue Ring and SMB.
I must start Samba on deamon with a script, not with inetd.conf.

1° Create a script “S08samba” in /etc/init.d/ with this:

#!/bin/sh



# set samba_active=1 to activate samba

samba_active=1



[ 1 = $samba_active ] || exit 0



if [ -n "`pidof smbd`" ] ; then

echo "Stopping smbd:"

killall smbd

fi



if [ -n "`pidof nmbd`" ] ; then

echo "Stopping nmbd:"

killall nmbd

fi



sleep 2



echo "Starting nmbd:"

/usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf

echo "Starting smbd:"

/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf

2) edit inetd.conf in /etc and erase smb part

3) reboot your MyBook

And MyBook’s samba finally run with wiimc !

Actually this is not quite correct, I have a bluering myself and it works fine with out doing this. One thing you do need to do is make sure that you comment out an entry in inetd.con but put a different one in.

Edit /etc/inetd.conf

#netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd smbd -s/etc/smb.conf -l/var/log -d0

microsoft-ds stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd smbd -s/etc/smb.conf -l/var/log -d0

Edit /etc/services (Make sure this line exists)

microsoft-ds    445/tcp                         # Microsoft Directory Service

This should force your box to listen on the correct ports and get it running.

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