Streaming Macbook Media to my RASPBMC PI

[WarmRaspberrypie]

I hate to open new threads for what I assume is a topic that has been covered, but for the life of me I cant seem to find a tutorial for the complete noob.
I'm looking for a detailed explanation or step by step on how to link my Rasp PI running RASPBMC to my old Mackbook running OSX, which currently houses my media. When looking at RASPBMC>Video>Get files I do not see either of my macs showing up so i assume I need to link them via some form of SMB, FTP...Both of my macs are able to identify the RaspPi as being connected to the network as a device, so I know its not a network issue.

I have been searching for a few days now with no success. It seems this must be such a simple task that nobody has written a step by step, like they did on installing RASPBMC or Wheezy, etc.

On a separate note, I have read that people are able to access Amazon Prime media content. If you have a link to a good tutorial on setting that up I would also appreciate it. Now back to searching...


Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.

[tvjon]

If you have a spare SD card, you could try writing an Openelec image to it. OE shows up fine in the Finder on our mac's, & we can copy, update OE etc. just fine.

At least then you'd know if Raspbmc is where the problem lies, or in your mac setup.

[Proinsias]

If you run SMBup on the mac you should be able to access it using the xbmc gui in videos>files>add videos>Windows network (SMB), or you could try manual mounting in the terminal, something like this.