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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.

[pumkinut]

You're probably dealing with a permissions issue.

Try this:
1)SSH into the ATV and create some directories, say /media/pictures and /media/videos
2)Change the new directory permissions so that anyone has read/write access to them "sudo chmod 777 /media/pictures /media/videos" or you can just do the chmod to the root directory of /media, but I wouldn't recommend that.
3)You should be able to transfer files into those directories not.

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[crush]

Thanks for the tips. Managed to create directories in the media directory and set permissions. My problem was that I had to do this through putty using sudo mkdir etc coz otherwise I wasnt getting permission on the ftp client. Before that I reinstalled crystalbuntu coz I felt I had messed around with it too much and after that I noticed any usb was automatically detected. Sweet, looks like I'm all set.

[Sam.Nazarko]

glad it's working

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I got a new crystal hd card installed booted atv but cant see crystal hd in any of the video settings. All I see is GPU: Geforce Go 7300 in hardware-video and no option to enable crystalhd in the playback menu. Do I have to reinstall crystalbuntu? That would stink because I've already transferred a whole bunch of pictures and vidoes onto the internal hdd.

Can I reinstall the OS without wiping out the hdd or xbmc only? Or is my bcm70015 broken?

[Ned Scott]

You might have a defective card. stmlabs.com has some posts in their forums about how you can test if your card is good or not. Sorry, I don't have a more direct link handy.

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Checked stmlabs.com but couldnt find anything. Is there any ssh command I can use to see if its loaded. So far dmesg or sudo dmesg shows nothing related to crystal hd. I took the card out and put it back in and rebooted etc and still the same. Should I send the card back?