Source Not Connected - help!

[stevethompson]

Hi
I manually connected Boxee on my ATV to a folder on my G5 iMac by entering the IP address and username / pwd combo. Everything worked fine and I could play .avi files there yesterday.

Today I can navigate to the folder, see the files (and see them change when I update the folder on my iMac) but can't play anything. Whenever I select one it searches then drops back to the file listing screen.

I checked the sources and see a message "Source Not Connected". I'm not sure what I did to cause this or how to reconnect. I tried rebuilding the source manually but run into the same problem.

Any advice or help would be great. Thanks.

[marcel]

Try to remove the source and restart ATV and then add the source again..

[stevethompson]

Hi
Still no joy. Deleted all the manual sources, rebooted the aTV and re-created the source but running into the same problem. Tried rebooting my wireless network also and rebooting the aTV but that didn't work either.

Weirdly I installed boxee on my MacBook (Intel) and did exactly the same manual setup and the files play perfectly. So, problem seems to be isolated to the aTV reading the files off my iMac.

Any other suggestions would be great. I'm at a loss what to try next.

[marcel]

check out this threadhttp://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=11948&postcount=30 and this one http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=1238

[stevethompson]

Thanks Marcel. I'll give this a try tonight.

What confuses me is that I can see all the movie content on my iMac shared folder through Boxee on the aTV, I just can't play any of it. The connection is obviously working ok, just nothing able to stream over it.

Out of interest, do you think this would likely still be a problem if I put the content on a USB HDD and connected that as an Airport Disk via an Extreme base station? I am using a Airport Express right now but thinking of upgrading to get the shared network storage capability.

[stevethompson]

Hi

So, tried again by deleting all the sources on the aTV and reseting the file sharing permission on my iMac, then rebooted the aTV, turned on file sharing on the iMac and manually created a source through Boxee pointing to the shared folder via the IP address, username and pwd. Unfortunately the same problem persists, I can see the folder and its content but when trying to play a video the file won't load. Checking in the sources shows the message "Source Not Connected".

Out of interest I followed exactly the same steps using my MacBook and that works perfectly. I can see the files and play them without a problem. All I can imagine is that there is some issue with the settings in the iMac.

It's a 2GHz PPC G5 iMac running 10.4.11 connected to the aTV via an Airport Express. Personal File Sharing is enabled for my account on the iMac although I have FTP Access turned off (don't think that matters though...?).

Thanks again for your help. Hopefully you can see something I'm missing because I've just ditched my cable provider and was hoping Boxee and the aTV could plug the gap! When it works, Boxee is awesome.

[Bulldog93]

http://macs.about.com/od/macwindows/ss/sharemacfilesxp_3.htm

[askeller@mac.com]

My iMac 2008 shows the same "Source Not Connected" as your G5 and all other symptoms. After reading your post, I tried my Quicksilver G4 2002 which worked just fine. Both connected through a router and running 10.5.6.

Using OSX Boxee on the iMac, I shared successfully with the Quicksilver. I also managed to share with the same iMac. Same shared folders and files. All worked just fine.

It's interesting that Boxee on the iMac can share with itself, while the AppleTV version cannot share with the same source.

I hope someone can come up with a solution.