Apple TV: SMB Mount - HOWTO Enable Samba Shares

evox · 04-27-2007, 10:33 PM

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Install Sharity Light on Apple TV for connecting to SMB / Samba shares:

* Download the binary from: http://atv.mylittleproject.co.uk/shlight.zip
* or compile it yourself from: http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/index.html

* sftp shlight to your ATV frontrow ~
* SSH into the ATV
* sudo mv shlight /usr/sbin (or /usr/bin) - password is frontrow by default
* sudo chmod +x /usr/sbin/shlight
* mount your drives as frontrow (this is a userland app)

e.g. /usr/sbin/shlight //server/Share /Users/frontrow/Movies/MountedShare

* Fire up ATVFiles and browse your content
* If necessary, automate the mount by placing the above command in your /etc/rc.local

* You may need to specify a username and password in the command-line. For example:

/usr/sbin/shlight //server/Share /Users/frontrow/Movies/MountedShare -U username -P password

Thanks KonFoo!

gquiring · 10-24-2007, 06:51 PM

This works great but as was noted on the wiki page I had to modify my hosts file to see my Windows share. Adding an entry to /etc/hosts solved the problem. Boy is this one easy hack to enable SMB shares. Thanks for posting.

FYI I copied /usr/bin/vi from my Hackintosh to my ATV /usr/bin directory to modify the hosts file. Vi worked perfectly.

I found a typo on the wiki page. I updated it on wiki but for anyone who could not get the automount to work the mkdir was missing the /System directory. Here is the correct stuff:

mkdir /System/Library/StartupItems/MountShit
cp /xx/xx/Mountshit /System/Library/StartupItems/MountShit/MountShit
cp /xx/xx/Mountshit/StartupParameters.plist /System/Library/StartupItems/MountShit/StartupParameters.plist
sudo chmod +x /System/Library/StartupItems/MountShit/MountShit

10-24-2007, 06:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
gquiring Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 5	This works great but as was noted on the wiki page I had to modify my hosts file to see my Windows share. Adding an entry to /etc/hosts solved the problem. Boy is this one easy hack to enable SMB shares. Thanks for posting. FYI I copied /usr/bin/vi from my Hackintosh to my ATV /usr/bin directory to modify the hosts file. Vi worked perfectly. I found a typo on the wiki page. I updated it on wiki but for anyone who could not get the automount to work the mkdir was missing the /System directory. Here is the correct stuff: mkdir /System/Library/StartupItems/MountShit cp /xx/xx/Mountshit /System/Library/StartupItems/MountShit/MountShit cp /xx/xx/Mountshit/StartupParameters.plist /System/Library/StartupItems/MountShit/StartupParameters.plist sudo chmod +x /System/Library/StartupItems/MountShit/MountShit Last edited by gquiring : 10-24-2007 at 10:00 PM.

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