Atv2 going in the bin!

zamo27

I have read and googled enough at this stage,, I have an apple tv 2 4.4.4 successfully jailbroken , but can't configure xbmc to see any of my files on my mac book pro running os x lion.. Is it my eircom router? It's that right. This came up already in other posts but is it the mother of alll my problems??

I do read smb is out of the question with os x but is my router my next big problem?

Please advice

bop1977

It's the eircom router. Its a pile of sh1t.

CathalDublin

Eircom router problem!
Been there recently in a customers house, I had iTunes home sharing problems on a brand new netopia, swapped it for another brand new netopia router and the same, setup a linksys router and everything worked immediately, it's definitely a blocked port or something on the router.
Id personally change it for a netgear, linksys or anything else

zamo27

Just looked on eBay would a belkin wireless N modem 300 Mbps 4 port do??
It's in England and going very cheap would that work here
Thank you lads

kaizersoze

zamo27 wrote: »

Just looked on eBay would a belkin wireless N modem 300 Mbps 4 port do??
It's in England and going very cheap would that work here
Thank you lads

It will work but stay away from anything Belkin if you're looking to improve your situation.
You'll just be going from one cheal pos to another.

As already mentioned, Netgear, Lynksys, Dlink, etc.

construct06

ok i have a Belkin wireless router and Atv2 and i cannot get the atv2 to see the files on my macbook either. i had been trying the SMB route but it cannot see my macbook.

is it possible with the right gear then to be able to stream movies from your macbook to your atv2 in xbmc? If it is possible I would consider changing my router if that indeed is the problem.

atv2 is running 4.4.4
macbook pro is on Mac OS X 10.7.2

Creamy Goodness

[chancing my arm]
if its still going in the bin can i have it?
[/chancing my arm]

Voodu Child

I doubt the router is the problem in either of these.

If you were getting poor performance maybe you could trace it back to the router, but if you are not picking up your shares at all, it is likely something else.

The problem is most likely a shares issue on your Mac. SMB isn't native to OSX so it may be a permissions/authentication issue etc. According to a recent post by a XBMC dev, SMB sharing from 10.7 to XBMC will not work at all. Macs just arent very good in a mixed environment tbh.

Try sharing with an alternative method eg NFS

adox

Voodu Child wrote: »

I doubt the router is the problem in either of these.

If you were getting poor performance maybe you could trace it back to the router, but if you are not picking up your shares at all, it is likely something else.

The problem is most likely a shares issue on your Mac. SMB isn't native to OSX so it may be a permissions/authentication issue etc. According to a recent post by a XBMC dev, SMB sharing from 10.7 to XBMC will not work at all. Macs just arent very good in a mixed environment tbh.

Try sharing with an alternative method eg NFS

Agree. I have an old Eircom router and can stream 720p files from my Mac to ATV2 without any issue. I see the OP is running Lion, which there have been many reports of having issues. I'd advise the OP to have a look at the XBMC forums for a solution to the issue and save their money regarding buying a new router.

soundsham

http://support.eircom.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/&/?St=33&E=0000000000316913068&K=9346&Sxi=2&Case=obj(11570)
might help update came after i changed router

zamo27

Voodu Child wrote: »

I doubt the router is the problem in either of these.

If you were getting poor performance maybe you could trace it back to the router, but if you are not picking up your shares at all, it is likely something else.

The problem is most likely a shares issue on your Mac. SMB isn't native to OSX so it may be a permissions/authentication issue etc. According to a recent post by a XBMC dev, SMB sharing from 10.7 to XBMC will not work at all. Macs just arent very good in a mixed environment tbh.

Try sharing with an alternative method eg NFS

I did NFS i went on xbmc forums i got other sodtware to help with this and i have my share activated on my mac so whats left??
the router no?!

soundsham

zamo27 wrote: »

Voodu Child wrote: »

I doubt the router is the problem in either of these.

If you were getting poor performance maybe you could trace it back to the router, but if you are not picking up your shares at all, it is likely something else.

The problem is most likely a shares issue on your Mac. SMB isn't native to OSX so it may be a permissions/authentication issue etc. According to a recent post by a XBMC dev, SMB sharing from 10.7 to XBMC will not work at all. Macs just arent very good in a mixed environment tbh.

Try sharing with an alternative method eg NFS

I did NFS i went on xbmc forums i got other sodtware to help with this and i have my share activated on my mac so whats left??
the router no?!

A loan of a router ??

Voodu Child

zamo27 wrote: »

I did NFS i went on xbmc forums i got other sodtware to help with this and i have my share activated on my mac so whats left??
the router no?!

No, there's a fair few things that I would check before suspecting the router.

Setting up NFS shares can be tricky on both sides (the server and client), so first of all I would double-check that. In XBMC up to Dharma accessing NFS shares took a lot of manual configuring. I know in Eden there is a NFS browser now but there's still a lot of things that can go wrong in terms of setup.