Having troubles accessing AFP/SMB shares on jailbroken apple tv 2 (xbmc)

henrikrox

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Jan 18, 2012

• #1

Hello

When trying to access my files on my macbook air on my apple tv2 in xbmc.

I cant gain access, i have tried both smb and afp, nothing works. i use the ip adress used from filesharing, and then my login id and password.

I have tried mplayer and it works great.

However i cant access the movies i have on my external hdd connected to the macbook air, anyone know why?

 

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margotspop

macrumors regular

• Jan 18, 2012

• #2

Offhand, no. However, a better place to try and get an answer might be the XBMC/IOS forums:

http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?f=137

God luck

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And if 'God' doesn't do it for you, you're out of luck 😉

 

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TOYSTER17

macrumors regular

• Jan 18, 2012

• #3

Are you using Lion? I've read it's a bit different for it. Head over to the XBMC forums and then let me know how you did it 😀 I've been too lazy to research it.

 

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hafr

macrumors 68030

• Jan 19, 2012

• #4

henrikrox said:

Hello

When trying to access my files on my macbook air on my apple tv2 in xbmc.

I cant gain access, i have tried both smb and afp, nothing works. i use the ip adress used from filesharing, and then my login id and password.

I have tried mplayer and it works great.

However i cant access the movies i have on my external hdd connected to the macbook air, anyone know why?

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Have you tried entering the info manually? afp://yourusername:yourpassword@yourinternalip/FolderName

The folder names are case sensitive. And don't forget to share the external drive 🙂