I’m trying to configure a friend’s 1st-generation AppleTV to be able to access AFP shares. He recently purchased aTV Flash 4.5. Your support documents and forums suggest that his version of aTV should have the necessary files to support this.
First, I followed these instructions (to enable AFP): http://support.firecore.com/entries/259321-enabling-apple-filing-protocol-afp. Unfortunately, it didn’t work–I’m still getting the mounting error when I attempt to mount the AFP share.
After reading more about nitoTV and AFP, I decided to see how the aTV was configured (via SSH):
-bash-2.05b$ sw_vers
ProductName: Apple TV OS
ProductVersion: 10.4.7
BuildVersion: 8N6014
Both symbolic links are present:
-bash-2.05b$ pwd
/usr/sbin
-bash-2.05b$ ls -al A*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 79 Jan 30 2010 AppleFileServer -> /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleFileServer
-bash-2.05b$ pwd
/Volumes/OSBoot/usr/sbin
-bash-2.05b$ ls -al A*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 79 Jan 30 2010 AppleFileServer -> /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleFileServer
The plist file is also present and contains the ‘correct’ settings.
It appears, however, that the AppleFileServer.app is missing:
-bash-2.05b$ pwd
/System/Library/CoreServices
-bash-2.05b$ ls -al
total 1992
drwxr-xr-x 43 root wheel 1462 Jan 19 13:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 root wheel 1122 Jan 30 2010 …
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 30 2010 BOMArchiveHelper.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Feb 23 2007 Bluetooth Setup Assistant.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Feb 23 2007 BluetoothUIServer.app
…
I decided to review the contents of the OS.dmg file that is contained by recovery.dmg file that is located in the /Users/frontrow/Documents folder. I didn’t located AppleFileServer.app in my (less than thorough) review.
Am I following the correct steps? Should his aTV support AFP?
Is there a way (via SSH) that I can try to manually mount an AFP share to see the resulting error message?