There are no items to playback

Legacy 2nd gen Apple TV
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I have an atv2 jail broken, and have at flash 1. 6 installed. Im able to connect to my NAS. But when I navigate to my files and select my share drive it says there’s no items to playback. . I have close to 200 movies in mp4 format on this drive. I had this drive connected to my pc before and I was able to view all my movies via iTunes. Plaes let me know what I can do. Thanks.

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Are you using a username and password to connect to your PC? If not, the Apple TV will attempt to connect as a guest which may limit the files you’re able to see.

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it’s not on a pc. The hard drive is a network attached storage drive. Atv sees the drive in my files. It just doesn’t see any files. Also there’s no username and password to access the drive.

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Anyone have some ideas? Thanks.

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Ah, sorry about that. The procedure for streaming from a NAS will be very similar.

Are you streaming via AFP, NFS, or SMB?

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Smb. It’s the only option that would let tha ATV see the hard drive.

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Unfortunately one of the limitations with SMB on the Apple TV is guest access is not supported. Your best option would be to enable a username/password on your NAS, and enter those login details on the Apple TV when setting up the share.

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Okay I will try that. Thanks for the suggestion. I will let you know how it goes.

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Hi James,

 

I am having almost the same issue and don’t recall having it long ago but now it persists:

I am using the latest or 2nd latest ATV Flash Black with the iOS that has the new UI

I connect my NAS external hard drive to my airport extreme over USB then setup my Airport to share the disk with user name and password. 

I enter the user name and password into the media>add share>AirPort> username and password of ATV Flash Black connection passes test

I see the disk and all of its partitions but when I click on my movie folder it says “there are no items to playback” 

This problem does not occur on my MBP it works fine to stream to ATV, I have also tried setting AirPort to share with device password but no go.

Any ideas?

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Same problem here. Been having a few memory issues recently which require my unplugging the ATV. This last time all of my drives and files have gone - just get the message that

“there are no items to playback”

I have not changed any setting on the Airport Extreme, or the ATV. Any suggestions?