XBMC noobie help

[holymonk]

I want to be able to stream PC media to a raspberry pi that I have just purchased. I have installed XBMC, rigged it up, its installed all the updates and it can see my PC.

When I try to add a video source and go to SMB then select my PC, I am prompted to put in my username and password (I am assuming this is my windows 8 login) I do this, and press ok and it simply prompts me over and over to add the username and password......

Help would be greatly appreciated

 

[freddie64]

Never done this myself, but is this guide any help.

Only thing i can think to try is to right click the folder on your PC, Share with/specific people, select Everyone in the drop down box.

 

[Steveocee]

How are your folders set to share? The pi will sit outside of the workgroup so you need to set the folder permission so everyone can read them.

 

[R088ieS86]

try entering it:
pcname\username
password

"pcname" being the PC that the share sits on.

Otherwise it will presume you are trying to log on with a user from the raspberry pi.
another option would be to go into network and sharing center -> Advanced sharing -> turn off password protected sharing.