FTP
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If you have media-files on a PC, Xbox or Mac and you want to share them to a version of XBMC on another PC, Xbox or Mac you can accomplish that by installing a FTP-Server (there are other solutions like e.g. SMB or XBMSP). In that case the XBMC will act like a FTP-Client and the other PC, Xbox or Mac like a FTP-Server.
To accomplish this your XBMC-Client and FTP-Server must be able to reach each other through your network (firewall!)
- On a Linux distribution you can install the preferred FTP-Server for that distribution.
- On a Mac .....
- On a Windows PC you can use a FTP-Server like e.g. FileZilla Server.
- On a Xbox you can use the built-in FTP-Server by enabling it in the Network Settings.
Than you define one or more userid's on the FTP-Server (not on the Xbox-Server, there you share everything from that Xbox-Server, all with one userid/password).
On the XBMC-Client use Add Source, select FTP, fill in the credentials and your XBMC-Client will be able to connect to that FTP-Server and play files more or less like if the files were local.
There are a few pages in this wiki written about FTP. These are: