Diego Garcia
08-02-2009, 06:10 PM
I have an HD200, w/the latest firmware as of late July 2009, that is connected to my home LAN, on which I have a Windows domain running. There is also a Linux-based machine attached to the network.
1) When I go to browse folders, I can drill down into the domain (it's the only folder that shows up on the top level view of folders) and see the individual computers registered with the domain. But when I try to drill into any Windows machine I get bounced back with a request for a user ID and password...which is to be expected.
My problem is, I can't seem to get the user ID and password to be recognized. I don't know if that's a problem with the password being case-sensitive under Windows -- and me not knowing how to issue lower-case letters using the HD200 remote -- or whether it's due to me not being able to prefix the user ID with the proper domain name (because I don't see how to issue a '\' or '/' character using the remote).
2) When I drill down into a publicly-shared (via Samba) share on the Linux machine I don't get prompted for a user ID and password, which makes sense in that the share is, by design, wide-open. I can even see the MP3 file I'm trying to play. But when I select it, and tell the HD200 to play it, it fails with an error message about the file no longer being on disk. That even happens if I go in and set the file permissions to 777 (i.e., anyone can do anything they want to the file).
I'd welcome suggestions on how to work around these issues so I can play stuff over the extender. Ideally, I'd like to be able to access Windows shares, since all but one of my machines are Windows-based and part of the Windows domain. But if the only solution is to put the stuff I want to share onto the Linux machine, I'll do that...provided someone can explain to me how to get the files to play from it :).
1) When I go to browse folders, I can drill down into the domain (it's the only folder that shows up on the top level view of folders) and see the individual computers registered with the domain. But when I try to drill into any Windows machine I get bounced back with a request for a user ID and password...which is to be expected.
My problem is, I can't seem to get the user ID and password to be recognized. I don't know if that's a problem with the password being case-sensitive under Windows -- and me not knowing how to issue lower-case letters using the HD200 remote -- or whether it's due to me not being able to prefix the user ID with the proper domain name (because I don't see how to issue a '\' or '/' character using the remote).
2) When I drill down into a publicly-shared (via Samba) share on the Linux machine I don't get prompted for a user ID and password, which makes sense in that the share is, by design, wide-open. I can even see the MP3 file I'm trying to play. But when I select it, and tell the HD200 to play it, it fails with an error message about the file no longer being on disk. That even happens if I go in and set the file permissions to 777 (i.e., anyone can do anything they want to the file).
I'd welcome suggestions on how to work around these issues so I can play stuff over the extender. Ideally, I'd like to be able to access Windows shares, since all but one of my machines are Windows-based and part of the Windows domain. But if the only solution is to put the stuff I want to share onto the Linux machine, I'll do that...provided someone can explain to me how to get the files to play from it :).