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T H E U L T I M A T E
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CONFIGURING SAMBA
As you can see my HTPC has 4 Drives in it right now. Note the paths of each hard drive.
I would recommend you replace the default shares, but If you are happy with them and
prefer not to remove the them at this moment, that’s ok.
Just be sure to
add
the [Disk] sections for all your hard drives, or you will not be able to
access them.
If you decide to use my Samba configuration, just remove the [Disk] sections of drives you
do not have installed in your HTPC yet.
Once you are done editing your shares, save the file as “samba.conf” in the same folder.
(\\OPENELEC\Configfiles\)
Restart your HTPC.
Your network icon on the windows system tray should flash again, and soon \\OPENELEC
will be available like before.
What’s going on here?
Saving your changes
WARNING!
Do not remove the [ConfigFiles] share! If you remove it you will probably not have access
to this Configuration file again, and might need to re-install OpenELEC to have access to it.
DID IT WORK?
Your shares should now look more manageable like
the image on the left.
Note: The pre-created folders named Music, Videos,
TV-Shows, Emulators, Downloads, Logfiles, etc
are still available on Disk 1.
You may also delete them entirely now, if you want.
Congratulations!
Your Samba configuration is complete and your hard
drives are now ready to receive files!