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CONFIGURING SAMBA
Don’t worry - You have now completed the most difficult parts of this guide!
It really gets a lot easier from here on out, I promise you.
The next topic is about scraping, but should not give you too many issues if your media is
well organized and named properly.
If you have a few terabytes of random folders inside folders inside folders inside other
folders in a folder called “stuff”... well... may God be with you.
Keep your media organized and reap the rewards.
This stuff is complicated, difficult and scary!
WARNING!
if you delete files from your hard drive located as a share, it will be gone forever.
There is no recycle bin for shared network drives. Please remember this.
MOUNTING SHARES
You can also have your HTPC’s hard drives seem
like regular hard drives in Windows, by right-clicking
on the Folder and selecting “Map network drive”.
You can choose a drive letter, and the drive will
appear under My Computer just like your other hard
drives.
This is completely optional though, you can always
just type \\openelec into Windows Explorer to access
your shares.
I JUST PURCHASED A NEW HARD DRIVE!
After installing a new hard drive into your HTPC, make sure to add it as a share. It will not
be done automatically.
SHOULD I REALLY SORT OUT MY MESSY FOLDERS?
Renaming a folder takes 3 seconds.
Badly named folders where XBMC has downloaded the wrong covers & info, discovering
it, editing it and re-downloading the correct covers, takes much longer.
Final Notes
