AFP Stopped working - ATV2 + Airport Extreme + HDD
#1
My Setup:
ATV2 on iOS 5.0.2 (4250)
XBMC 13.1 Git:20140604-84725b0 (Compiled Jun 4 2014)
installed using - apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
Logs: http://pastebin.com/LZiFktaV

Hi,

I moved a few months ago, and this is the first real time I've had to try to troubleshoot this issue. Before I moved, everything worked fine. I have a hard drive connected, by USB, to my Airport Extreme. I have an ATV2, that connects via AFP to the Hard Drive to share media to XBMC on the ATV2.

Now, XBMC won't connect to the AFP share. I can't think of anything that has changed to my setup in order for this to happen. Previously, the ATV2 was connected to the network via WiFi. In the new setup, I have it with Ethernet. Other than that, everything's the same.

I can connect to the hard drive on my Mac just fine.

None of my previously setup Video directories work, under Videos > Files. When I select one, the "Working..." notice comes up, sits there for a while, and goes away with an alert: "Remote Share. Could not connet to network server". This part isn't shown in the logs, since I've been focusing on trying to "Add Videos..." for the last few hours.

When I select "Add Videos..." and go to the Zeroconf Browser [that's how all of my shares have been set up], my device, BaseStation shows up – both "BaseStation (AFP) and BaseStation (SAMBA)". If I select either of those, "Working..." shows for a while, and then it goes away with no alert. This is what can be seen in the logs.

I was running Eden, but I updated, today, to Gotham, and still no luck.

I have another ATV2, still on Eden, and I tried it, and the exact same thing happens.

I've googled this issue in as many ways I could think of, and I haven't found anything that works – not on these forums, nor anywhere else. I've tried manually entering in AFP & SMB connection string variations to see if I could stumble upon a fix, and no luck.

If anyone has any thoughts on ways to solve this, it would be greatly appreciated. At this point, I don't need it to connect by any specific protocol. I just need to be able to connect XBMC on my ATV2 to shares on an HDD connected by USB to my Airport Extreme.

Thanks!
Ryan
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#2
Are you sure that the IP of your NAS is still the same and that the atv2 is sitting in the same subnet?


Code:
557.02:09:33 T:145858560   ERROR: LIBAFPCLIENT: Could not connect, never got a response to getstatus, Operation timed out
558.02:09:33 T:145858560   ERROR: AFP: Error connecting to afp://192.168.1.102:548/
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much: click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi: NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf): Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!: iOS FAQ (wiki)
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#3
Memphiz, that did it! Thanks so much for your help. Hours of troubleshooting for such a simple fix! The best part is that it works now.

Thanks!
Ryan
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