October 18, 200916 yr Anyone have any success with the new WDTV Live 2 mediastreamer seeing unRaid shares? It can see the machine itself, but I am unable to view any shares. My other media players, consoles and computers have zero problems with unRaid. It seems that WDTV2 is having a lot of difficulty with SAMBA, although *some* people have gotten it to work. NFS is not supported yet I don't think.
October 18, 200916 yr Just wait a bit. It seems to take a bit of time before it discovers the shares. I leave it plugged in and connected via ethernet for about 15 minutes before stuff shows up. Regards, Peter
October 21, 200916 yr I have WDTV Live seeing my shares, and I can browse the 1st layer of folders, but when I try and enter any folder with media files it just hangs there forever(way past 15 mins) has anyone gotten past this issue?
October 21, 200916 yr A couple of work-arounds have been posted over at wdtvforum.com: Renaming shares so they start with a different letter or character. e.g., "!" - It seems the current WDTV Live firmware can't "see" some share names, depending on the alphabetical location of the first character in the share name. Plugging an empty USB flash drive into the WDTV Live and rebooting. - Missing shares magically appear. Go figure. ??? Looks as though the firmware code for networking is rather "immature".
October 21, 200916 yr I can see the shares.. I can even browse the 1st level of directories in the share. I just can't go into the the directory. ex... Share name = Movies I can browse the /Movies directory and then I see /Movies/Pulp Fiction (1998) /Movies/Tron (19XX) Now when I try and go into "Pulp Fiction (1998)" That's where everything just hangs..
October 21, 200916 yr I can see the shares.. I can even browse the 1st level of directories in the share. I just can't go into the the directory. ex... Share name = Movies I can browse the /Movies directory and then I see /Movies/Pulp Fiction (1998) /Movies/Tron (19XX) Now when I try and go into "Pulp Fiction (1998)" That's where everything just hangs.. Are the disks sleeping on your unRAID server? I know that my MG-35 media players are unable to deal with the spin-up delay of disks. They instead time-out and subsequently just return an error saying the file is unreadable. (until I re-scan the network, and re-traverse into the folder with the movie) It is as possible your media player just locks up... since the response from the unRAID server is delayed until the disks can spin up, and it was never coded to deal with that situation.
October 21, 200916 yr I can see the shares.. I can even browse the 1st level of directories in the share. I just can't go into the the directory. ex... Share name = Movies I can browse the /Movies directory and then I see /Movies/Pulp Fiction (1998) /Movies/Tron (19XX) Now when I try and go into "Pulp Fiction (1998)" That's where everything just hangs.. Are the didks sleeping on your unRAID server? I know that my MG-35 media players are unable to deal with the spin-up delay of disks. They instead time-out and subsequently just return an error saying the file is unreadable. (until I re-scan the network, and re-traverse into the folder with the movie) It is as possible your media player just locks up... since the response from the unRAID server is delayed until the disks can spin up, and it was never coded to deal with that situation. They are not sleeping, I thought that might have been the problem too.. this is something else...
October 21, 200916 yr This is strange. I have no issues browsing and playing items in sub-folders. Things are much faster when using the cache_dirs utility. There is nothing special about my setup. I am using a Netgear gigabit switch fed by my DLink gigabit router. Regards, Peter
October 21, 200916 yr This is strange. I have no issues browsing and playing items in sub-folders. Things are much faster when using the cache_dirs utility. There is nothing special about my setup. I am using a Netgear gigabit switch fed by my DLink gigabit router. Regards, Peter Hmm can you give me more details on your setup? Are you using SMB or NFS? are you wired or wireless? what's an example of your share names and folder structures within them?
October 21, 200916 yr Problem Solved! I updated to the latest version of unRaid 4.5 beta 7 from 4.3.3 and that resolved the issue. It was probably related to the version of samba with 4.3.3
October 21, 200916 yr Glad to hear you solved the problem. I should have mentioned that I am running 4.5b7 and SMB, wired with shares like \HD_Movies and sub directories like \HD_Movies\Stargate Atlantis\Season 1\ Regards, Peter
December 23, 201015 yr A couple of work-arounds have been posted over at wdtvforum.com: Renaming shares so they start with a different letter or character. e.g., "!" - It seems the current WDTV Live firmware can't "see" some share names, depending on the alphabetical location of the first character in the share name. Plugging an empty USB flash drive into the WDTV Live and rebooting. - Missing shares magically appear. Go figure. ??? Looks as though the firmware code for networking is rather "immature". The USB trick worked! Thanks a lot!
January 26, 201115 yr Any other ideas on this one? I get "No Media Content" when I try to browse my UnRaid shares on the WDTV Live, nor does it show up as a Windows device and now my Blue-Ray player can't see it either. I've checked the WorkGroup settings and Local Master and other ideas suggested above, but nothing helps.
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