2010-08-11, 08:12
First i want to apologize that i am very new to most of this. I can say right now that i don't know how to find some of the things I'm suppose to post along with this. I know how to find it on a computer, but not on the Apple TV. I'm so sorry if anything is missing and will check back frequently to add any information that's missing that helpers request. I promise, i might be stupid but I'm not lazy, i researched all day before posting so if i missed something that is clearly stated, I'm sorry, but i promise i did my research before making this post.
Basically the problem I'm having is this. I have a laptop with windows 7 with an external 2 TB hard drive that has all my movies on it. This is setup like a ghetto server and is rarely touched directly. I setup xbmc on my regular windows 7 box and gained access to my movies effortlessly through Windows network (SMB).
I loved watching movies with it so decided to get a Apple TV so i could watch all my movies on my TV. I installed it first try no problems with the thumb drive, and then went to find my media on my "ghetto server" upstairs but it would not find it. Every time i chose Windows network (smb) like i did before on my computer, i get the error "Error 2: share not available". I did a search for this error message but couldn't find anything on the site for it. I then guessed (probably incorrectly) that i couldn't connect this way with the Apple TV because its not windows. So i tried UPNP devise. The computer my ghetto server is on shows up in the list but when i try and access it, a "Folder Searching...." box showed up for about 1/4th of a second then goes away and reverts back to the "browse for new share" screen. I then installed XBMC on the ghetto server computer upstairs and chose the options to allow for "share video and music libraries through upnp", "allow control of xbmc via upnp" "allow programs on other systems to control xbmc". I go back to the Apple TV and the media server is listed, i click on it and it opens and has 2 folders in it. A music folder and a movie folder, but none of my media is in those folders. I also double checked to make sure that the folder with my movies in it on my ghetto server was "shared" with "everybody" to read.
So after all this i searched this site for hours and hours trying to find whats wrong but couldn't find anything new that i haven't already tried. But i tried everything above and still cant access my movies. So any help on what I'm doing wrong would be great . Again sorry i didn't provide an error log but i don't know how to get to it on an Apple TV because i don't know how to find any type of command prompt or other such things to type in the location of the log. Sorry for the wall of text, i hope somebody can offer me some help. Thank you so much in advance
----------------------[b]The Info I Know How To Find:[/]--------------------
Platform: Apple TV (client) with media on a sony laptop running windows 7 with media on an external 2TB hardrive.
Launcher version: 3.2.5
XBMC version: 9.11
Boxee beta version: 0.9.21.12563
media: Most of it is x264 with .mkv container (i think. but probably doesn't matter since i cant even get to the media lol)
log: sorry even with davilla's sig, i couldn't figure out how to find it . I'm sorry, but il get it if there is a more detailed guide i'm not finding.
install method: installed using the thumb drive then downloaded the additional files from the "download" section under the XBMC menu in Apple TV.
Basically the problem I'm having is this. I have a laptop with windows 7 with an external 2 TB hard drive that has all my movies on it. This is setup like a ghetto server and is rarely touched directly. I setup xbmc on my regular windows 7 box and gained access to my movies effortlessly through Windows network (SMB).
I loved watching movies with it so decided to get a Apple TV so i could watch all my movies on my TV. I installed it first try no problems with the thumb drive, and then went to find my media on my "ghetto server" upstairs but it would not find it. Every time i chose Windows network (smb) like i did before on my computer, i get the error "Error 2: share not available". I did a search for this error message but couldn't find anything on the site for it. I then guessed (probably incorrectly) that i couldn't connect this way with the Apple TV because its not windows. So i tried UPNP devise. The computer my ghetto server is on shows up in the list but when i try and access it, a "Folder Searching...." box showed up for about 1/4th of a second then goes away and reverts back to the "browse for new share" screen. I then installed XBMC on the ghetto server computer upstairs and chose the options to allow for "share video and music libraries through upnp", "allow control of xbmc via upnp" "allow programs on other systems to control xbmc". I go back to the Apple TV and the media server is listed, i click on it and it opens and has 2 folders in it. A music folder and a movie folder, but none of my media is in those folders. I also double checked to make sure that the folder with my movies in it on my ghetto server was "shared" with "everybody" to read.
So after all this i searched this site for hours and hours trying to find whats wrong but couldn't find anything new that i haven't already tried. But i tried everything above and still cant access my movies. So any help on what I'm doing wrong would be great . Again sorry i didn't provide an error log but i don't know how to get to it on an Apple TV because i don't know how to find any type of command prompt or other such things to type in the location of the log. Sorry for the wall of text, i hope somebody can offer me some help. Thank you so much in advance
----------------------[b]The Info I Know How To Find:[/]--------------------
Platform: Apple TV (client) with media on a sony laptop running windows 7 with media on an external 2TB hardrive.
Launcher version: 3.2.5
XBMC version: 9.11
Boxee beta version: 0.9.21.12563
media: Most of it is x264 with .mkv container (i think. but probably doesn't matter since i cant even get to the media lol)
log: sorry even with davilla's sig, i couldn't figure out how to find it . I'm sorry, but il get it if there is a more detailed guide i'm not finding.
install method: installed using the thumb drive then downloaded the additional files from the "download" section under the XBMC menu in Apple TV.