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Share OS X files to a modded XBox machine
Authored by: curb on Jun 16, '04 10:51:36AM

For those of you who may want to do this even quicker, please consider this Unix-based method.

1. In the terminal, open /etc/smb.conf in your favourite text editor. (If you are at all a little paranoid, make a copy first.) This will most likely require sudo.

Add a section for the specific folder that you want to share. Something like this:
[share_name]
path = /Volumes/FireWireDrive
read only = yes
browseable = no

You can read the manual pages for smb.conf for more details.

2. Turn on Windows Sharing in System Preferences.

3. In XBoxMediaCenter.xml enter the path to your newly shared folder:
<path>smb://user:pass@ip/share_name</path>

Notice that share_name must match in both smb.conf and XBoxMediaCenter.xml. For completeness, user is your OS X username, pass is your password, ip is your Mac's ip address.

4. Of course, you need to upload your new .xml file to your Xbox.

5. Now you have access to that share from XBMC.



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