""Connection timed out" on SMB shares...WTF?

[zedhead]

Okay I can see all my Samba shares (13 of them) under add source:

SERVERNAME / SHARENAME1 (Samba)
SERVERNAME / SHARENAME2 (Samba)
SERVERNAME / SHARENAME3 (Samba)
etc...

but every time I try to connect I get a "connection timed out" error after about 2 seconds of it trying to add the share. WTF?

The shares work fine to all the PCs in the house, all the XBMC machines and my Boxee HTPC.

I am using 1.0 on the BB and the machine hosting the shares is running Windows Home Server (Windows 2003).

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

cheers,

Zed

[zedhead]

To add to my post, I disabled TVersity and restarted the Boxee Box. I was then able to add sources without it doing the 2 second "connection time out". Now if I could jsut figure out why when adding my sources it misses more then half the content when its being indexed. But indexes fine on my Boxee HTPC...weird

[Qwest905]

where do you disable TVersity?

[twistybox]

In Windows, go to Add and Remove Programs (from your start menu in Control Panels), then select TVersity and UNINSTALL. Done.

[ckpinguin]

OK, maybe you have the same prob I had until yesterday: Only disabling the firewall helped to access the shares (eventhough it was correctly configured). But as soon as I corrected the Workgroup name in BB's settings (which I just found then), it worked flawlessly also with active firewall (letting pass 445,137-139 through). Don't ask me what Workgroup has to do with Firewall, but I tested this 5 times and could reproduce it easily.