1st gen apple tv.

ray071295 wrote:

Big mistake! Not sure what your goal is there but it F'd things up...i had to restore. Coulda been something i did, doubt it tho....

I'd say he was trying to help you out.

The terminal command would have opened port 336 by creating a new firewall rule.

That port however as WC mentioned is not actually used by AppleTV normally.

Have you modified/hacked the software to add extra functionality?

AC

When you set your library up as a synced library it will stream content in exactly the same way as a library would when set up to stream only. There are however other things that make a synced library far more convenient.

Photos sync and therefore slideshows work much better.

Content is in the main menus and the library loads when connected. With a streaming only library, content is under a shared menu and doesn't load until you go to it, this makes everything much faster.

Changes to your library are instantly available, you don't need to reload the library for changes to take effect.

There are quite a few other advantages which I forget now because I don't use streaming libraries all that often.

This is a kind of old post, so I'm not sure if it's still an issue for you. I spent a lot of time trolling the web, talking to tech support and did not get any resolution until I started thinking about the WiFi aspect.

I found that the issue was that the ATV is an old 11n draft device and my router is a newer 11n "final" device. I'm assuming that after one of the background router upgrades, the protocols were no longer compatible. I can't say for sure, because like you, it worked, then one day didn't. I could see it in I tunes, but it would not sync more than a couple of files. Got the firewall error message, would endlessly try to sync, dropped the ATV altogether, etc.

I fixed this by creating a new network using my iMac Air Port, which is also 11n draft and connecting the ATV to that network. Worked like a charm. You need to enable internet sharing on that network for the ATV to see it. Internet sharing is in the "sharing" preferences, not network.

Good luck.