[mythtv-users] "unknown socket" error with Xbox frontend

[Terry Yee]

yeah its a mystery to me how the xbox is able to resolve hostnames
into ip addresses.  That's y i think its just best to go with static
ip's and put the actual ip address in rather than a host name.  Your
on a local network anyways aren't you?

On 4/14/05, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You may want to double and triple check your settings.  I had a case
> > where the path to my recordings share on my backend was incorrect.
> > For example, the default path includes the hostname:
> >
> > \\%h\your_recordings_share
> >
> > I have no idea where it gets that hostname from, but it was getting
> > putting the hostname for that path but it some how wasn't able to
> > connect that with a correct ip address and was therefore not able to
> > access any recordings.  Replacing %h with the actual ip address fixed
> > that.
> 
> I'm pretty sure the setting is correct, but I will check again. Am I
> right in thinking that the host in the smb:// string MUST be the same
> as the hostname in the recorded table? So for example, if the value in
> the table is elm.edwards.home does the smb:// string have to be
> elm.edwards.home rather than just elm?
> 
> I'm asking this because XBMC doesn't seem to be able to resolve the
> full name when mapping to Samba drives, it can only resolve elm. (The
> other PCs on my LAN can resolve both). I'm wondering if this is part
> of my problem. Don't know how to fix it, though!
> 
> Regards,
> Phill
>