So I've got an XBox 360. It lets you play music off of a Windows XP machine (and I've got this working fine) or a Windows Media Center machine. You have to have this software called Windows Media Connect that serves up the songs if you're just running XP.

The latest version of Windows Media Connect will let you add shares that come from remote sources, ala my samba shares on my linux box, where all my music is. But the Xbox won't see the songs even though it sees my XP machine running windows media connect.

So to simplify my summary ... here's what I've got while trying to get my music catalog shared from my linux to my xbox:

Linux Samba Share -> Windows XP (with Media Connect) -> Xbox 360

It's not just music either, I have a folder of photos shared, but Xbox won't see them unless they're local on that XP machine.

All my permissions for the shared folders are world readable (chmod 755)

It's almost like the Xbox can tell if it's originating from a non-Microsoft OS and it omits all that content.

Anyone try this? Anyone have any luck when they did?

Greg