yeah its a mystery to me how the xbox is able to resolve hostnames into ip addresses. That's y i think its just best to go with static ip's and put the actual ip address in rather than a host name. Your on a local network anyways aren't you?
On 4/14/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may want to double and triple check your settings. I had a case > > where the path to my recordings share on my backend was incorrect. > > For example, the default path includes the hostname: > > > > \\%h\your_recordings_share > > > > I have no idea where it gets that hostname from, but it was getting > > putting the hostname for that path but it some how wasn't able to > > connect that with a correct ip address and was therefore not able to > > access any recordings. Replacing %h with the actual ip address fixed > > that. > > I'm pretty sure the setting is correct, but I will check again. Am I > right in thinking that the host in the smb:// string MUST be the same > as the hostname in the recorded table? So for example, if the value in > the table is elm.edwards.home does the smb:// string have to be > elm.edwards.home rather than just elm? > > I'm asking this because XBMC doesn't seem to be able to resolve the > full name when mapping to Samba drives, it can only resolve elm. (The > other PCs on my LAN can resolve both). I'm wondering if this is part > of my problem. Don't know how to fix it, though! > > Regards, > Phill > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
