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I am using my Raspberry Pi to stream video and audio content off of my Macbook through an SMB share. The content will stream perfectly when it works but the SMB connection seems to drop at least once a day, if not more often. When this happens, the SMB connection repeatedly times out. Restarting the Pi and the Macbook only works intermittently. The Pi is wired to the network but the laptop is connected wirelessly. Any thoughts?

Operating system - OSX 10.9.2

Raspberry operating system - XBMC 12.3

Vinnie
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I've had this exact same problem using SMB (with a pi as well as without). It was caused by failed hostname resolution issues that were due to conflicting WINS servers on the network.

Solution was to connect via IP instead of hostname.

William Patton
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