How to access share port hard drive on Boxee?

[bharavik]

Hi,
I am having difficulty in accessing the 2TB hard drive that was attached to the Dlink DIR-825 router (Thru Share port) from my Boxee box.
Can any one please guide in regards that?

[Frogy]

Does the drive work when plugged into the PC itself?

[bharavik]

Yes, the drive work perfectly fine if i attached to either pc or boxee.

[StevenR]

I don't think you will be able to access that drive from the Boxee Box. The DIR-825 uses proprietary technology called SharePort (rather than standards such as SMB or NFS), which requires their software to be installed on the client machine - it effectively creates a "virtual USB port" which is connected over the network.
As we cannot install additional software or drivers on the Boxee Box there would be no way of accessing it.

[bharavik]

Thanks for your reply.
Funny thing i was not able to access any drive of my computer from Boxee box.
Can you suggest me of possible errors i may have made?

[Ronald]

Thanks for your reply.
Funny thing i was not able to access any drive of my computer from Boxee box.
Can you suggest me of possible errors i may have made?

There are possible config issues for both the PC and the Boxee end.

At the Boxee end, the obvious things to start checking are the configuration entries in the submenu:
Settings > Network > SMB Client

Here you need to set up the username and password entries to match a user account on your PC with access permission for the stuff you want to share out. And in the same submenu you also need to define the SMB workgroup name of Boxee to be the same as that of your PC. (They will only 'talk' to each other if in the same group.) There is also a setting for "WINS server" which you can ignore (leave blank).

With that taken care of you should be able to see the name of your computer when browsing the root of the SMB network from Boxee, but in order to access the content of that computer you'll also need to define some fileshare folders and define both fileshare access and security access permissions for them, such that the account defined for the SMB client is permitted to access them at least for listing and reading purposes. (Boxee normally doesn't need or use write access on fileshares.)

Best regards: Ronald

[bharavik]

Thanks Ronald.

[frankfooter32]

Hi,
I am having difficulty in accessing the 2TB hard drive that was attached to the Dlink DIR-825 router (Thru Share port) from my Boxee box.
Can any one please guide in regards that?

Hey Buddy I own the exact same router (DIR 825) and I can tell you that it is absolutely the WORST router made and it will freeze and stutter when trying to play even some of the smallest video files (as small as 700mb) on the BB. I have tried EVERY setting, many different Access points, repeaters etc and nothing helps with this problem. If you read on Dlink's forums about this particular router you will see what I am talking about. It is the biggest piece of crap made and it is not worth trying to use with the BB to stream video wirelessly.

I have opted to buy a new router (Asus Rt-N66u) which is currently on back order everywhere, but when it arrives I will gladly take a baseball bat to my DIR 825 after the past month of trying to get this turd to work with my BB.

I even went so far as to take back my first BB to see if maybe I got a lemon and got a new one, same problems. So just to save you some headaches bro, dump that router, its gonna give you all kind of problems with the BB for wireless streaming.

Best of luck!