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Mythdora as simple media player

Submitted by webstar on April 1, 2006 - 3:22am

I'm totaly new to mythdora. just did my first auto install yesterday. I really only want use my myth box as a media player right now ie view photos and videos - I have no need for viewing tv just yet. So I'm wondering if it is at all possible to point my myth box at all the content I have on my windows xp machine?

I've managed to get firefox working and viewing the internet on the window manager but I can't seem to connect to the windows network in any way. do I need to activate samba or something similar?

Hope someone can help

Thanks

Derek

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The search tool works

Submitted by d00dtv on April 1, 2006 - 4:24am.

The search tool works wonders.

http://mythdora.com/?q=node/268
http://mythdora.com/?q=node/191
http://mythdora.com/?q=node/166

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"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis

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Thanks D, I did search but

Submitted by webstar on April 1, 2006 - 1:04pm.

Thanks D, I did search but havnt really found any specific windows networking stuff. Seems to be possible tho I just need to get to grips with samba.

Thanks for you help

d

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mount -t cifs

Submitted by pisani on April 3, 2006 - 9:48am.

You need to share your content on your windows machine. Then on the linux host you can do a mount -t cifs . Do a man on smbmount or mount and you should be able to figure it out. normally you'd do a mount -t cifs -o username=windowsusername,password=windowspassword //windowshost/share /mountpoint

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