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Now keep in mind, this is the short and quick version. SMBUp has tons of configuration settings and options.

Smbup manage users tv#

We will just focus on sharing a folder or drive on your Mac with other devices, for example my Amazon Fire TV with Kodi/XBMC can access media that resides on my MacBook Pro.

If you completed step 2, you’ll be looking at a window like this one:Īnd this is where things became confusing for me – which can be totally my failure of course.

Smbup manage users password#

I’m just super grateful that SMBUp exists!įirst thing I did was to click the padlock in the upper left corner to unlock it – you’ll have to enter your password here. Avoid lengthy names, special characters and spaces! Next thing I did, which is optional, was to enter a name in the “ Name” field that made sense to me. The next step is to add users – which is based on the users that already exist on your Mac. Since I’m assuming a simple share, I’ve used my own user account, but you could of course create an account specifically for this purpose.Ĭlick “ Manage Users” and select the user you’d like to add.Įnter the password and click “ Add user“, rinse and repeat if needed for other users – for a simple share you’ll only need one user, specially when “guest access” will be allowed. Now that we have at least one user, time to add the folder or drive we would like to share – this can be on the internal harddisk of your Mac or on an external drive.Ĭlick “ Add new Shared Drive” and select the drive or folder you’d like to share.Īfter selecting your drive or folder, you will see something like this: #Mac os x 10.0 setup password This is a very nice post and a fantastic tutorial for SMBUp. Would you mind if I linked it from SMBUP’s page? I had some instructions but I’d recommend yours over mine any time. There’s a few common problems that people face. Most come from the fact the SMBUp tries to do some stuff that wasn’t designed to be automated in a front-end, especially for automations on OS X. I'm thinking I might be better off setting up NFS to use with XBMC so I can keep SMB2 enabled for newer hardware.Most of these are covered in the FAQ linked in the App page, but that tends to be missed.

Samba3 from SMBUp or SMB2 from Apple), not both at the same time. Given Apple is moving to replace AFP with SMB2, I can't say this is a great situation since you can only run one or the other (i.e. In other words, as far as I can tell, you still need SMBUp to use XBMC Eden from a remote device to talk to Mavericks with the SMB protocol. My copy of Frodo, however DOES *NOT* work) I just tried it and 'Eden' still works in Mavericks. Newer versions of XBMC might work with Mavericks (although I've read some reports that you need a nightly version of XBMC to use it ON Mavericks period.

Smbup manage users software#

I get a 'broken pipe' error if I try to use XBMC Eden on my Gen1 AppleTV with Mavericks as the server (That is the last version that still works on my Gen 1 AppleTV units without having to use a USB flash drive to boot the thing or face losing my AppleTV Software on the main unit since anything beyond Eden requires LINUX on AppleTV Gen1 to function and it replaces the entire OS). So far, it looks like re-installing SMBUp has gotten rid of the lag, but it's pretty early to be sure. Otherwise, I wouldn't need SMBUp in the first place. They remove legacy support that works and the replacement doesn't work right. Progress should not mean BREAKING everything that came before, but that seems par for the course anymore. It's a shame networking seems to be getting worse over time. I have no idea whether the SMB2 support in Mavericks will work with XBMC or not. I've just re-installed SMBUp and I'll continue to monitor whether anything improved or not, but I'm under the impression 10.8.5 screwed something up (10.8.2 - 10.8.4 still behaved fine with it). I also seem to get more 'buffering' glitches than before like the information isn't being sent in a timely manner to the unit. Now I get it for no apparent reason since 10.8.5 was installed. I used to only get that error when my external media drive was asleep. Trying to load the directory again gets the correct result, but this error seems to come up often now.

Smbup manage users update#

Has anyone else noticed problems with Samba via SMBUp after the 10.8.5 update? XBMC on two different AppleTV units both now give a lot of 'Operation Timed Out' and 'Could not connect to remote share' errors since the update here.