I bought one in hopes of having it store the thumbnails and bookmarks locally (To the 16GB USB stick)
instead of writing to networked drives, but it doesn’t seem to use it for anything.
It also takes a very long time to compile media when turned on. I was also hoping it would do
away with that.
This will be a superb function and make the Win Share Source usable again for the Gallery View. The situation now is just unbearable. The waiting time for the on the fly rendered thumbnails are not acceptable.
“As noted in the comments below, Windows Services for UNIX Version (SFU) is no longer supported on Windows 7 and 2008”
Only works on WinXP. I have tested it lately, its not working on Win7x64.
I also installed the Cygwin NFS package with a good HOW-TO, unfortunately i didn’t get it to work. The configuration is a pain in the neck. Maybe you have better luck with it.
The only working NFS server i had running was “haneWin NFS Server 1.2.6” what is shareware. (btw. you have to use the 32bit exe on win 64bit or it wont work)
Just for your information.
Using shares still don’t use any pre rendered thumbnails and making it useless if you want to use the SMP in the Video Gallery View, what makes it for me only usable if the MediaFiles are on a local USB device.
Using a local USB stick or similar for the thumbs, would be a wonderful workaround =)
I don’t like Win 7 (or 8) so I won’t be upgrading to either of those anytime soon.
I’ll go all Linux eventually.
I’ve never had a problem playing 1080p video with my setup. The only thing that bugs me is that the WD Live has to rescan everything (I’m still not entirely sure why since my Xbox with XBMC never does this).
The closer I can get this to my 10 year old XMBC setup, the better!