[erclsb]

What I’m saying is that the fault here is on Apple’s end. This isn’t something that WiiMC should patch, since this isn’t a WiiMC-only problem. I am a Mac user and I would love for SMB to work as it did before but it’s something Apple needs to address to ALL of its users. Apple is aware that SMB support is broken and a fix should be forthcoming. I don’t believe there is anything WiiMC’s developers could do anyway, since the entire Mac-and SMB-using community (mostly corporate users) has been affected and no developer has come up with a viable solution.

[erclsb]

Hmmm….Never mind. My GUID-partitioned drive worked fine after zeroing out the data and starting fresh. Carry on!

[erclsb]

A more likely and viable scenario would be for Apple to fix its horribly buggy and broken SMBX to be fully compatible with SMB. I don’t see any need for WiiMC’s developers to include a protocol that only about 5-10% of their user base will use.

You can easily set up your Mac as an FTP server using the directions I included in this forum:http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1441

It works just like SMB, just a little more difficult to set up.

[erclsb]

@MacGuffin wrote:

Thanks, but this isn’t working for me, I just get “failed to connect to fTP site” after I set it up. Followed the directions I think. Did all the terminal commands. What exactly is the group? is this the name of the folder you want to share? How about the other settings, port and so forth?

1) The group name is irrelevant. That’s why it’s simpler to just use your own account name.

2) You don’t need to define a folder to share like in SMB. It’s shares from the root level of the HD.

3) Leaving the port number alone worked fine for me.

[erclsb]

I’ve found a workaround for the SMB issue: Using the Terminal to initiate a FTP server from my 10.7 Mac hosting the video files. You can circumvent SMB completely.

Follow the procedure on this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4704

Note: In step 3, just add yourself as the group. My terminal command was “dseditgroup -o edit -u aaronnicholson -a aaronnicholson -t group com.apple.access_ftp”.

Then it’s just a matter of setting up the FTP share in WiiMC.

[erclsb]

Apple has dropped support for SMB shares from Lion in favor of their own variant, SMBX. FTP shares are still supported, but the GUI has been removed so it’s supported through terminal commands only.

So, unless WiiMC allows AFP or SMBX access in a future version the only thing you can do is roll back to 10.6.

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