FTP/ Networking Question??? Ask Here...

Seems strange. You'll just have to play with FlashFXP till it works! FTP can be odd sometimes! Can you transfer stuff back from the Xbox?

You know it's much easier to just stream the video file from your PC with XBMC...

 

Thats all I do anymore, I stopped burning onto disks just to watch them on my stand-alone DVD player. I just access my movies through the XBMC Video option then pick my shared folder on the PC and watch the movie from there. No problems at all and less wear & tear on my burner and wallet for discs and covers.

 

It worked only when my xbox menu is in XMBC, so thats fixed.

But how do i stream it through XMBC?

 

The second part of this tutorial will show you how, step-by-step!

 

I can not connect to the ftp of both of my xbox now after I installed the XIR Easy Kit V2 Beta to make it able to start with a dvd remote.

The symptom is, the Xbox can connect to the internet fine, I can see it from the DHCP of my router, but my computer can not ping through the xbox, nor can it ftp through. However, whenver I use the SMB sharing function on the xbox (it didn't work either, but it will freeze for sometime, I assume it's trying to find the network), my computer can ping through to the xbox, and the ftp works, I was able to download and upload some files. However, whenver the freeze of SMB stops, the connection is gone.

I used it the day before I installed the XIR, but XIR shouldn't have caused this as it's clearly a software issue. The xbox can still access weather.com...

Can anyone help me or point me to a direction? Thank you.

 

Page 4 of this thread has all the correct settings to make XBMC work! Try those settings first and see if there is a change!

I'd also look into Static IP Addressing, maybe there is a DHCP error.

 

Great guide, recently softmodded my Xbox and I'm looking into the FTP scene and was wondering if this cable will do fine, I think I will be using set-up D

 

Yep, that's the one you need for Setup D!

 

I want to try and start using XBMC with a wireless connection so that I do not have a cord running all over the house

will the official Microsoft Xbox Wireless Network Adapter allow me to do this or should I try something else

 

I don't see why not, however I have never used one before.

 

Hi there Chunkhead - hoping you can help me out. Not to familiar with networking.

I've got setup B (Computer and Xbox connected through router).

I've got the evo x dash. I have set that up so I can ping my xbox from my computer - and also ftp to it no problems. But I can't get XBMC to access the shared folders on my PC.

I'm using Vista Home Premium BTW.

I have followed your sets going through the network setup within the settings area of XBMC. And on my pc i have set up a restricted user called xbox. (well, i think i have done it....vista is different to your xp explaination).

Now, when I go to "video" and browse through to SMB Network....it brings up a username and password prompt for my routers IP address. But xbox, xbox wont work. Should it be asking for my routers IP address, or my computers? I think I have an IP set up correctly on my PC. Similar to how its done in XP. I have added dns addresses that my isp gave me, and set them in both my xbox and router. So hopefully the pc side of things is all sorted...

I Can browse down to "WORKGROUP", and click it and it displays the name of my computer "MIKES-PC", but once again it asks for a username/password, with xbox/xbox not working.

Please help if you can....i'd really appreciate it!

 

You've forgotten to add the user "xbox" to your PC.

Setup a new user account (limited) in Vista called 'xbox'. Give it the password 'xbox' and then give 'xbox' permissions for each folder you wish to share, just like in the tutorial on page 1!

 

Finally got the cable I posted above, followed the guide and its working like a charm, sure these guides have helped many people.

Thank you

 

Thanks for getting back to me chunkhead. I think I mentioned that I have set up that user on my account on vista. I went to control panel, user accounts, manage another account, create a new account. In Vista, the account type can be either standard or administrator, and I choose standard. It has a username "xbox" and password "xbox". But even after I set that, xbmc is still asking me for a username/password.

 

Make sure that this is set in your settings!

 

Hi again,

I have that screen set up correctly. I just upgraded to the latest stable build of XBMC as I realised that I was working off a very, very, very old copy. Took me a while to get a new copy installed....but I managed it. But, unfortunately I still can't gain access to my shared folders. I'm going to leave you with as much detailed information as possible. First about my Router & PC details, and finally about my various xbox settings.

Router
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Type: Linksys Wireless-G.
IP Address: 192.168.1.1
PRIMARY DNS: 60.234.1.1
SECONARY DNS: 60.234.2.2

PC
___________________
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
IP Address: 192.168.1.4
PRIMARY DNS: 60.234.1.1
SECONARY DNS: 60.234.2.2
Computer name: Mikes-PC
Workgroup: WORKGROUP

Control Panel>User Accounts - xbox, password xbox. standard user

Control Panel>Network and Sharing Centre:
"Network Discovery" = on
"File Sharing" = on
"Public Folder Sharing" = on
"Printer Sharing" = off
"Password protected sharing" = on
"Media sharing" = off

How I shared my folder:
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I navigate to "public". Right Click "public videos" and select properties. Navigate to sharing tab. Click share>Select xbox from the drop down list and click add. Change to "reader" status. click "share". Now, back in sharing tab of properties, I click advanced sharing>click on permissions>click add>type in xbox>click check name, then click okay. Now advanced sharing is complete.

 

now for my xbox settings.

Dash: Evo X

EVO X network settings
________________________
Network Type: Static
IP Address: 192.168.1.3
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 60.234.1.1
DNS: 60.234.2.2

XBMC network settings
_______________________

NETWORK SCREEN
Assignment: Manual/static
IP Address: 192.168.1.3
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS Server: 60.234.1.1

SERVERS SCREEN
Enable FTP Server (checked)
FTP Username: xbox
FTP User password: xbox
Auto Fatx limiter (checked)

SMB SCREEN
Default Username: xbox
Default password: xbox
workgroup: Workgroup

Okay that's everything. I am still able to ping the xbox's IP and connect via FTP.

If I scroll through to the main menu to my video:

Click on WORKGROUP (smb Network), I get the following error:
Remote Share
Workgroup not found

Click on SMB Network share, I get the following error:
Remote Share
Could not connect to network server

I havn't touched sources.xml. Do I need to modify anything in there?

 

I did find this flaw with your settings...

 

Good morning Chunkhead,

I made your recommended change, but no, it didn't work.

This is getting quite frustrating

I feel like I went a step backwards when I installed the latest version of XBMC. With my old copy, I could at least get into Workgroup, and see my home PC - Mikes-PC - come up on the screen....I just couldn't access it. Now, I can't even get into Workgroup. Do you recommend that I roll back to the old version?

Networking an xbox should never be this hard. Have many people had vista/xbmc issues in the past?

I've heard "ccXstream" being mentioned on various forums. Do you suggest I give this a go instead og samba?

 

Ok, have looked into it a bit further and I might have a solution.

You say that you are sharing the 'Public' folder. I don't do that, I share personal folders from my HDDs.

According to the Vista helpfile...



You've allocated the public folder to 'xbox'. You can't do that! You need to either make it available to everyone or change the folder you are trying to share.

I personally have a folder for each type I want to share (TV, Movies, etc). With that done, then you can set permissions. Just not on the Public folder!