2012-07-31, 10:15
Hi everybody. I've been lurking around here for more than a year without posting and have been using it as reference for my ATV2 and have found answers to all my questions. However now that I have bought a 160GB Apple TV 1 and have successfully installed Sams crystalbuntu onto the internal drive I am finding myself in this great expanse of linux wonderland...
I would like to thank all the developers here for their great work before I say I have no clue about linux and need some help which I know will be just a piece of cake for you guys. I'm sorry in advance for being so noob about this stuff.
As said I have a 160GB ATV1 running crystalbuntu which does not have a crystal card yet (will have one soon) and is wired straight to my modem-router sitting right next to it. I use an old popcornhour clone with 1TB storage as an SMB server which is also connected to my router and I have no problem watching movies and other media in XBMC.
Since I now have extra 160GB in the ATV1 I would like to transfer some family pictures and videos on to it but the means I normally use do not work. I cannot ftp using filezilla port 21 but I can use port 22 which I think is sftp but if I try to transfer a file into an existing empty directory "media" it gives me a lot of errors. I can ssh using putty but instead of transferring files using commands that I really don't understand I would like to use something on my windows 7 laptop to transfer files and also be able to use the usb on the atv. I have searched google and inside the forum but couldn't find answers to my questions:
1- Can I make the atv show as a computer on my windows network? If too complicated...
2- Can I ftp files into atv internal storage using an ftp client on windows? and...
3- Can I have XBMC recognize external USB drives that are formatted in NTFS?
4- And while doing all this where in the internal drive should I transfer these files to?
Thanks.
I would like to thank all the developers here for their great work before I say I have no clue about linux and need some help which I know will be just a piece of cake for you guys. I'm sorry in advance for being so noob about this stuff.
As said I have a 160GB ATV1 running crystalbuntu which does not have a crystal card yet (will have one soon) and is wired straight to my modem-router sitting right next to it. I use an old popcornhour clone with 1TB storage as an SMB server which is also connected to my router and I have no problem watching movies and other media in XBMC.
Since I now have extra 160GB in the ATV1 I would like to transfer some family pictures and videos on to it but the means I normally use do not work. I cannot ftp using filezilla port 21 but I can use port 22 which I think is sftp but if I try to transfer a file into an existing empty directory "media" it gives me a lot of errors. I can ssh using putty but instead of transferring files using commands that I really don't understand I would like to use something on my windows 7 laptop to transfer files and also be able to use the usb on the atv. I have searched google and inside the forum but couldn't find answers to my questions:
1- Can I make the atv show as a computer on my windows network? If too complicated...
2- Can I ftp files into atv internal storage using an ftp client on windows? and...
3- Can I have XBMC recognize external USB drives that are formatted in NTFS?
4- And while doing all this where in the internal drive should I transfer these files to?
Thanks.