amok Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 I've deleted my build, seems to have a problem with linking to the Users-folder. Better use this one: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/ATVFiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibcrootbeer Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 I've deleted my build, seems to have a problem with linking to the Users-folder. Better use this one: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/ATVFiles it looks like this one would work for me but my user account that i have been working in is named appletv... is there any way we can change the path it points to? ...say to an external drive or a different users Movies folder??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Yes, there is. Do the following: cd /Users ln -s frontrow /Users/yournamehere/Movies if you want to use your account Movies library, or cd /Users ln -s frontrow /Volumes/volumename/folder if you want to use a Movies folder that's stored on another volume. Sherry Haibara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibcrootbeer Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 it looks like this one would work for me but my user account that i have been working in is named appletv... is there any way we can change the path it points to? ...say to an external drive or a different users Movies folder??? Yes, there is.Do the following: cd /Users ln -s frontrow /Users/yournamehere/Movies if you want to use your account Movies library, or cd /Users ln -s frontrow /Volumes/volumename/folder if you want to use a Movies folder that's stored on another volume. Sherry Haibara forgive me, im not very fluent when it comes to the terminal, but what you are saying is that if i type this into the terminal it will change the path that the ATVFiles.frapp is using to point to the specific folder? wouldnt you have to change the code inside that plugin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Nope. ATVFile.frapp plugin it's coded to point here: /Users/frontrow/Movies, and use it as its Movies folder. Now, what do we need to do if we wanna let it use our Movies folder? Because we just can't change the plugin code (aldready tried, but it doesn't seem to work well), we need a trick that create a symbolic link between our /Users/name/Movies folder and /Users/frontrow/Movies folder. Doing in terminal what I wrote in the previous post will deceive the plugin and do that trick, making our "AppleTV" seeing our Movies even if they aren't in /Users/frontrow/Movies I hope it's more clear now, Sherry Haibara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibcrootbeer Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 that made it a lot more clear. however, i wasnt able to get it to work. still nothing in the files menu and when i checked the movies folder where i want it linked to i saw a file named front row in there... im assuming that was supposed to be the pointer file? anyway, i decided to just create another new user named frontrow and put all my movies in that user Movies folder. worked like a charm. so until we get more bugs worked out and more error free ways of working around this ill probly just leave it like this. thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centic Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Hmm.. any idea how to set the image to the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stukey Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Hi all I've installed the great ATVFiles plugin and can now see the contents of the /Users/frontrow/Movies folder from my AppleTV. What I'd like to do now is set-up an AFP mount in /Users/frontrow/Movies on the AppleTV to redirect to my iMac's Movies folder. Then I can just access all of my movie files without having to copy them to the AppleTV or sync via iTunes. I've managed to set-up an AFP mount but it mounts my entire iMac's HD. I just want the mount to go directly to /Users/myusername/Movies on my iMac! Any ideas how I do this? Also, how can I make the mount persistent between reboots of the AppleTV? This is what I've done so so far... 1. SSH to AppleTV 2. Make the OSBoot Volume read-write: sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/disk0s3 / 3. Mount the AFP share: mount_afp -i afp://iMac.Local/Mac\ HD /Users/frontrow/Movies Many thanks! Stukey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danofun Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 ibcrootbeer <-love the stuff... anyway, give this a shot. Once I had ATVfiles working, I was able to change the default location of my movie files by using this code to create a symbolic link. mkdir /Volumes/volume_name/Users/frontrow/Movies Creates the folder frontrow. You may get an error saying this folder already exist. If so, this is not a problem so continue. rm -r /Volumes/volume_name/Users/frontrow/Movies Removes the Movies folder, and all of it contents, that resides in the frontrow users folder. ln -s /Volumes/volume_name/Users/your_username/Movies /Volumes/volume_name/Users/frontrow This creates a symbolic link to your current movie folder. Now we can mount a shared network folder in your Users Movies folder to access remote network shares. First, on your remote computer, make sure you share the folder containing the video files you wish to watch. Then... mkdir /Volumes/volume_name/Users/your_username/Movies/new_folder Use this command to create a new folder in your users Movie folder. mount -t smbfs //ip_of_shared_computer/shared_folder /Volumes/volume_name/Users/your_username/Movies/new_folder This will mount the network share to your users Movie folder and will now be accessable from atv. As always, us at your own risk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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