Sunday, March 4, 2012

xbmc timeout on smb

Sometimes XBMC will take a little longer to list all your folders on a SMB share. It may throw an error such as:
"Operation Time out" followed up by "Could not connect to network server"

One way to fix this is to increase the SMB client timeout. This is done by _creating_ the advanced settings file in the following location with the following data:

$ cat /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata
<advancedsettings>
    <samba>
        <clienttimeout>20</clienttimeout>  <!-- timeout (in seconds) -->
    </samba>
</advancedsettings> 

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