I've read a lot of topics and came up with the fstab solution. It works for me, but I dont think the average user (my grandpa) would be able to make it work.
Is there any other solution? I've read about the gconf-editor but it didn't work for me.
Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
That's odd. I would have thought a usb drive would be mounted during boot.
Are you using a hub? I have had minor problems with my set up which were sorted by using a powered hub. The external DVD drive I have wouldn't work without the powered hub and the usb stick I have to trigger boot into linux was sometimes not being recognised. Powered hub fixed both. Hope that helps.
need more info, dmesg, drive format, etc.
The external HDD format is NTFS.
I turned on ATv and ran the dmesg command, this is the result
http://pastebin.com/9MKSbVGm
My current solution is edit fstab and add the UUID of each USB HDD and automatically mount it on a specific folder, but it wont automount an unknown external HDD.
Thanks.
PS. please tell me if you need more information, I'm 50% sure the dmseg command i ran is not what you needed =P I'm not a very prolific ubuntu player.
Benedictine Wrote:The external HDD format is NTFS.
I turned on ATv and ran the dmesg command, this is the result http://pastebin.com/9MKSbVGm
My current solution is edit fstab and add the UUID of each USB HDD and automatically mount it on a specific folder, but it wont automount an unknown external HDD.
Thanks.
PS. please tell me if you need more information, I'm 50% sure the dmseg command i ran is not what you needed =P I'm not a very prolific ubuntu player.
Your problem is NTFS format. google "mount NTFS with ubuntu"
Did it, the common solution is to modify the fstab file (already done that and working like a charm), but I was looking for a way to not to have to ssh in to apple tv every time I want to use a new ntfs external hdd.
I think I'll give up and use network streaming for that.
Format the disk as fat32, its easier than attempting to use ntfs.
Although you have to use some 3rd party tools to be able to format a large disk as fat32. Windows won't do it.