I am using an iomega ix2-200 as my NAS running 1.0.2 WiiMC… All of my content runs very well through SMB although I personaly would perfer FTP (this I haven’t got working yet). I would suggest filling in all information in settings… Example:

Name – SMB NAS Drive
ip – 192.168.1.69
share – public
user –
pass –

I am able to connect with no User and Pass because I allow anon login to my public folder… if you are unsure try your admin account on the NAS.

I have set up all 4 Wiis in my house and all run SMB fine except for the few issues discussed in the other threads with FF/WW causeing a few freezes.

Hope this helps.

Please, check if this is the possibily solution:

wiimc freezes if there are to many letters to load.

I reduced the length of all filenames and no freezes appear anymore – no matter which video was loaded before.

txarly

You will see further down the page that I have a similar issue with a home built nas running tomato. mplayerce .72 is the newest that works. I submitted a bug report on this and a developer is working with me to solve it. I am not sure what options your NAS has but as a work around I am using FTP share and it works fine.

Hello !

I’m resolving the problem with MyBook Blue Ring and SMB.
I must start Samba on deamon with a script, not with inetd.conf.

1° Create a script “S08samba” in /etc/init.d/ with this:

#!/bin/sh



# set samba_active=1 to activate samba

samba_active=1



[ 1 = $samba_active ] || exit 0



if [ -n "`pidof smbd`" ] ; then

echo "Stopping smbd:"

killall smbd

fi



if [ -n "`pidof nmbd`" ] ; then

echo "Stopping nmbd:"

killall nmbd

fi



sleep 2



echo "Starting nmbd:"

/usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf

echo "Starting smbd:"

/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf

2) edit inetd.conf in /etc and erase smb part

3) reboot your MyBook

And MyBook’s samba finally run with wiimc !

@murigny64 wrote:

Hello !

I’m resolving the problem with MyBook Blue Ring and SMB.
I must start Samba on deamon with a script, not with inetd.conf.

1° Create a script “S08samba” in /etc/init.d/ with this:

#!/bin/sh



# set samba_active=1 to activate samba

samba_active=1



[ 1 = $samba_active ] || exit 0



if [ -n "`pidof smbd`" ] ; then

echo "Stopping smbd:"

killall smbd

fi



if [ -n "`pidof nmbd`" ] ; then

echo "Stopping nmbd:"

killall nmbd

fi



sleep 2



echo "Starting nmbd:"

/usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf

echo "Starting smbd:"

/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf

2) edit inetd.conf in /etc and erase smb part

3) reboot your MyBook

And MyBook’s samba finally run with wiimc !

Actually this is not quite correct, I have a bluering myself and it works fine with out doing this. One thing you do need to do is make sure that you comment out an entry in inetd.con but put a different one in.

Edit /etc/inetd.conf

#netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd smbd -s/etc/smb.conf -l/var/log -d0

microsoft-ds stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd smbd -s/etc/smb.conf -l/var/log -d0

Edit /etc/services (Make sure this line exists)

microsoft-ds    445/tcp                         # Microsoft Directory Service

This should force your box to listen on the correct ports and get it running.