Comments on: OSX Lion SMB Samba XBMC fix

By: John Large

John Large — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:57:59 +0000

In reply to Nir. make sure you are doing it with admin privileges, so sudo

By: Nir

Nir — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:08:24 +0000

I can’t seems to edit the com.apple.nfsd.plist file. When trying to write out it returns with error!
What should i do?

By: sneakguestPeter

sneakguestPeter — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 22:39:44 +0000

Same for me, after installing maverick and temporary totally regretting it, fighting with SMB for 2 days, then this solved it in less than 1 hour, big up!

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:58:48 +0000

Excellent post! Thank you so much. Was struggling to get SMB working with Mavericks and XMBC on windows and just wasn’t working until I stumbled on to this page. Thanks so much.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:52:44 +0000

UPDATE: This morning when I fired everything up, I am able to play through “System, File Manager” but not through “Movies” and there is also random movies in this view that are not on my drives…..

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:39:35 +0000

Help!!! Followed the instructions to a tee, thanks for this. but although I can share the movies etc when I select one to play nothing happens and I get and error:

INFO: FileSmb->Open: Unable to open file : ‘smb://MATTHEWSIMAC/Passport/Movies/Kids/tad%2ethe%2elost%2eexplorer%2e2012%2ebdrip%2ex264%2ddocument%2emkv’
unix_err:’26’ error : ‘Function not implemented’

I am running an ATV1 on Linux with XMBC crystalbuntu, I have 3 external drives formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with the Master Boot Record option so I can read and write from my Windows laptop.

I have been searching for a couple of weeks to find a solution.

Any ideas.

Thanks,

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:12:45 +0000

Hi. I tried to follow your simple instructions but I received the following error:

The NFS server rejected this combination of share definitions.
Please review the share definitions to correct the problem. The NFS server has returned the following description of the problem:

/Volumes/TOSHIBAEXT using UUID 52E1C111-8296-4A12-9E95-CF1B6F84A650
Can’t export /Volumes/TOSHIBAEXT: Operation not supported (45)
exports:1: kernel export registration failed: NFS exporting not supported by fstype “fusefs_txantfs” (fh)

TOSHIBAEXT is a NTFS hard drive attached via USB to the computer I am trying to run NFS. I do not have Samba installed and I believe i still have OSX internet sharing enabled (as this tutorial didnt mention turning it off). I am actually not trying to get this to work with XBMC but Goodplayer on my iPad which used to connect to the NTFS shares on Snow Leopard but not longer does so on OSX.

Could you help a brother out?

By: Kz

Kz — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:23:18 +0000

Hello,
seems like the best solution out here so far, however, I have encountered a problem that somebody else encountered before me as well, as I can see.. the file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.nfsd.plist doesn’t exist.. can’t find it anywhere, which kinda puts a stop to the whole process.
Thanks in advance. 🙂

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:12:10 +0000

After searching and searching this worked! thanks

By: WiZzi

WiZzi — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:33:33 +0000

thanks so much for this fix! I recent bought a new router and wanted to make sure I stream the best way possible 🙂 smb wasn’t working for me anymore so I’m really helped by your explanation.

By: John Large

John Large — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:01:36 +0000

In reply to David Bjergso.

It must be something to do with the fact you are using a NAS. You shouldn’t be sharing a NAS via NFS from your mac as the NAS should be doing the sharing. Most NAS devices have an NFS option, failing that it should have SMB which will work just fine with XBMC.

Don’t share a NAS via your computer, it’s an extra node which shouldn’t be added into your network sharing.

By: John Large

John Large — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:59:39 +0000

In reply to Jaymz24.

Hi.

I’d start with getting XBMC running on the ATV1. once this is running you can always setup AFP shares straight from the Mac System Preferences to get you up & running with sharing media to your ATV1.

With regards NFS and the -N option, the file should be there. Browse to the following folder using the go> go to folder option at the top of your finder window and browse to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/