mounting a smb/cifs share

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mounting a smb/cifs share

Hi!

One annoying limitation of Apple TV is, that it can't access SMB/CIFS shares.

Thanks to the work of other people you can now open local files in BackRow:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/ATVFiles

and mount a remote drive via AFP:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Mounta_Remote_Drive_viaAFP

But what about SMB/CIFS? It's not build in, so you have to add smb support to the apple-tv kernel. How can this be accomplished?

best regards
Andreas

PS: Hopefully the patchstick ( http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Patchstick) is working soon. Wouldn't it be a great idea for apple to support this great community?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Apr 16, 2007 12:37 AM

Answer 1

dan.s

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Apr 16, 2007 9:54 PM in response to andreask2

Hi!

One annoying limitation of Apple TV is, that it can't
access SMB/CIFS shares.

It doesn't slice fruits and vegetables very well either..

Thanks to the work of other people you can now open
local files in BackRow:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/ATVFiles

and mount a remote drive via AFP:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Mounta_Remote_Drivevi
a_AFP

But what about SMB/CIFS? It's not build in, so you
have to add smb support to the apple-tv kernel. How
can this be accomplished?

Install Samba on the ATV I imagine..

Answer 2

andreask2 Author

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Apr 17, 2007 2:10 AM in response to dan.s

Install Samba on the ATV I imagine..

but how?

this one:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.x86/smb-217.18/

I hoped someone here has made it work already...