..... I have a airport extreme and a macbook.
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Please help me....ive been googling the whole freaking day but i cant find any !!!!
what am i doing wrond....
ps. i can go in my mede8er from finder using smb://ipadress.....
thank you verry much
sorry for my bad english i'm dutch
We have an Airport Extreme router like you, & have no wintel pc's on the network at all, just mac's & the media players & samba works just fine. The airport extreme handles all of this without any need for wintel pc involvement.
We normally watch movies from the HD in the players but do stream from a 2 TB HD plugged into Airport Extreme's usb port, because that's always available, whereas the mac's may not even be here. Also rather than copy files over or connect video & audio cables from the macbook as we used to do before mede8er, we now just stream from a mac if for example we've used "Eye-TV" to record a TV show on that mac.
We don't use Upnp, just smb & NFS. NFS is a much "lighter" protocol than smb & is much preferred over smb for performance. However, Airport Extreme only supports smb/cifs & naturally, Apple's own AFP protocol, hence we can't transfer from the router HD via NFS, only the mac's.
Another NFS advantage for mac users is you already have the service running on your mac, so you just need to tell it what folders you'd like shared via NFS.
As I've only just seen this thread, what point are you at now? Is it all working or do you still need help?