AppleTV 2 (black) Airport Extreme + External Hard Drive

officialcoopy · 2012-07-23 05:05

hey guys,

My apologies, I tried searching but to no avail.

I upgraded to Dharma and I can't access my hard drive that's attached to my airport extreme. I tried following this thread (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=94075/) and it's not connecting. I upgraded my airport extreme software, so there aren't as many options. Can someone help me out? I'd really appreciate it. I used to be good with technology... man I'm getting old.

thanks!

-greg

**Ned Scott** · 2012-07-23 05:53

See if you can get us a copy of your debug log of when you try to connect to the drive from within XBMC.

officialcoopy · 2012-09-01 04:15

I definitely will!

Sorry, I've been busy with wedding and work. Now that those two stupid things are over... time to hack!

Well, and all of Breaking Bad was on netflix... so I had to watch.

let's do this!

officialcoopy · 2012-09-01 17:51

Well it works now. I don't think Eden allows spaces for the folder name.

Hurrah! I can use XBMC again!

Bai5 · 2012-09-30 22:39

Hey Officialcopy,

I'm having the same problem. Have my ATV2 jailbroken with Eden but I can't connect to my airport extreme drive. I tried using the zeroconf connection, and it showed my airport, but would not allow me to select it.

If you could please show me how you got your system to work I would really appreciate it! This is so frustrating...

Thanks!

dukevim · 2012-10-01 16:57

I don't think Zeroconf will work, try editing the sources.xml directly in a text editor:

<source>
<name> TV</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://AirportExtreme/Media/TV/</path>
</source>

Should look something like the above.

gtwibell · 2013-01-30 21:26

I was having the self same problem and discovered a solution by a round about route. I use Mac computers with OSX 10.8 mountain lion exclusively which only supports the very latest version of Airport Utility which does not include the 'allow guest access' sharing setting for attached HDDs.

I dragged on old Windows XP laptop out of retirement and loaded up the previous 5.5.3 version of Airport Utility and this does have the guest access setting. Switched that on and suddenly XBMC could see the Airport-attached drive and the shares once again.

Cranial · 2013-01-31 00:52

Or go here: Install old Airport Utility (Mountain Lion)

It's a script that allows you to install the old Airport Utility on Mountain Lion. There's a lot of config options missing in the new utility.

mhedges76 · 2013-01-31 04:56

You can also enter the Airport Express in manually via Add Source - Browse - Add Network Location. Use the SMB protocol, and you need the IP address. It lets you enter a password.

This is how I do it.

**Ned Scott** · 2013-01-31 05:38

You can download the old version of AirPort Utility off of Apple's site by searching for it in the support documentation. I've got both copies living side by side on Mac OS X 10.8.2.

Ned Scott Team-XBMC Wiki Guy Posts: 11,903 Joined: Jan 2011 Reputation: 130 Location: Arizona, USA	2012-07-23 05:53 Post: #2 See if you can get us a copy of your debug log of when you try to connect to the drive from within XBMC. You can make easy links to the XBMC wiki using double brackets around words: [[debug log]] = debug log, [[Add-on:YouTube]] = Add-on:YouTube, [[Adding videos to the library]] = Adding videos to the library, [[userdata]] = userdata, etc
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officialcoopy Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-09-01 04:15 Post: #3 I definitely will! Sorry, I've been busy with wedding and work. Now that those two stupid things are over... time to hack! Well, and all of Breaking Bad was on netflix... so I had to watch. let's do this!
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officialcoopy Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-09-01 17:51 Post: #4 Well it works now. I don't think Eden allows spaces for the folder name. Hurrah! I can use XBMC again!
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Bai5 Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: Sep 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-09-30 22:39 Post: #5 Hey Officialcopy, I'm having the same problem. Have my ATV2 jailbroken with Eden but I can't connect to my airport extreme drive. I tried using the zeroconf connection, and it showed my airport, but would not allow me to select it. If you could please show me how you got your system to work I would really appreciate it! This is so frustrating... Thanks!
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dukevim Member Posts: 57 Joined: Mar 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-10-01 16:57 Post: #6 I don't think Zeroconf will work, try editing the sources.xml directly in a text editor: <source> <name> TV</name> <path pathversion="1">smb://AirportExtreme/Media/TV/</path> </source> Should look something like the above.
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Cranial Fan Posts: 731 Joined: Aug 2008 Reputation: 3 Location: Sydney, Australia	2013-01-31 00:52 Post: #8 Or go here: Install old Airport Utility (Mountain Lion) It's a script that allows you to install the old Airport Utility on Mountain Lion. There's a lot of config options missing in the new utility. http://www.xbmc4xbox.org
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mhedges76 Junior Member Posts: 7 Joined: Jan 2013 Reputation: 0	2013-01-31 04:56 Post: #9 You can also enter the Airport Express in manually via Add Source - Browse - Add Network Location. Use the SMB protocol, and you need the IP address. It lets you enter a password. This is how I do it.
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