Boxee wireless connection to apple time capsule airport

**RICK430** · November 11th, 2010, 07:18 PM

Hi Guys

I got the Boxee Box today and it connects to the internet fine, even thought it is slow to pull programming artwork. I have a Airport Time Console with 2tb of storage connected to my imac. The Boxee sees the time capsule drive but does not load any content from it and also nothing from my imac either.

Has anyone been able to connect to a time capsule or to their mac drive and stream movies. If so please let me know how you added your source in the box and what did you do on your mac to be able to stream movies from the boxee.

**EDCVO** · November 11th, 2010, 07:34 PM

Heya - I have a Time Capsule and, also, haven't been able to Share any folders on the drive using Samba.

I can, however, access the Time Capsule when using UPnP (try Playback, MediaTomb or even PS3 Media Server). Though this works, it is not desirable - it's very slow compared to a direct Share, as the computer software either wants to Transcode the video or it sends it VERY slowly compared to a direct share.

I'd love if someone knows how to Share a Time Capsule with Boxee Box on a Mac, without having to use UPnP.

**gocanucksgo** · November 12th, 2010, 02:14 AM

after much trial and tribulations i have managed to get boxee to recognize and play my files off my external hard drives that are connected to my airport extreme.

Open Airpot Utility application
double click on your router
select Disks on the top
click the file sharing button
choose read only from the Airport Disks Guest Access drop-down menu.

go back to boxee and under setting and select file sources. now click add sources. you shoud see:
router name/ harddirve name
click on one and select the directory containing the movie files.

cheers.

**RICK430** · November 12th, 2010, 07:31 AM

Thanks alot that did it. But boxee suck ass anyway due to its lagging.

**nathanp** · November 13th, 2010, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by gocanucksgo

after much trial and tribulations i have managed to get boxee to recognize and play my files off my external hard drives that are connected to my airport extreme.

Open Airpot Utility application
double click on your router
select Disks on the top
click the file sharing button
choose read only from the Airport Disks Guest Access drop-down menu.

go back to boxee and under setting and select file sources. now click add sources. you shoud see:
router name/ harddirve name
click on one and select the directory containing the movie files.

cheers.

I too am having issues getting this to work. Changing the drop-down to read only doesn't solve the problem. What do all the settings on the "File Sharing" page need to be set to?

**nathanp** · November 13th, 2010, 03:18 PM

Ok, it is finally working. Here are the details so maybe others can benefit. Keep in mind that these settings came after many attempts, and changing almost everything, so they may not all be necessary. Also, I had all these settings right and it still wasn't working ("connection time out", "error occurred" or "connection refused") and I restarted the BB and all worked perfectly.

MacBook Pro running 10.6.5
Boxee Box running 1.0.1.16125
Apple Time Capsule running 7.5.1
Western Digital 2TB HDD, 3 partitions

The WD HDD is connected via USB to the Time Capsule, the Boxee Box and MacBook Pro are connected wirelessly.

Time Capsule > Disks > File Sharing
Enable file sharing is checked
Secure shared disks is "With Time Capsule Password"
Remember this password is checked
AirPort Disks Guest Access is "Read only"
Share disks over WAN is not checked
Workgroup is boxee
WINS server is boxeebox

Boxee Box > Settings > Network > Servers
Enable web server is not checked
Enable Windows file sharing is checked
Share password (user name: guest) is blank
Share workgroup is boxee
Host name is boxeebox

MacbookPro > Sharing
All are unchecked, including File Sharing

**nathanp** · November 13th, 2010, 07:49 PM

Awesome. After a few hours of using an app, I went back to the share that was working earlier, and it now says "Loading Error, Could not access file, directory or device." Will let you know if I can get it working again.

**dconti** · November 13th, 2010, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by nathanp

Ok, it is finally working. Here are the details so maybe others can benefit. Keep in mind that these settings came after many attempts, and changing almost everything, so they may not all be necessary. Also, I had all these settings right and it still wasn't working ("connection time out", "error occurred" or "connection refused") and I restarted the BB and all worked perfectly.

MacBook Pro running 10.6.5
Boxee Box running 1.0.1.16125
Apple Time Capsule running 7.5.1
Western Digital 2TB HDD, 3 partitions

The WD HDD is connected via USB to the Time Capsule, the Boxee Box and MacBook Pro are connected wirelessly.

Time Capsule > Disks > File Sharing
Enable file sharing is checked
Secure shared disks is "With Time Capsule Password"
Remember this password is checked
AirPort Disks Guest Access is "Read only"
Share disks over WAN is not checked
Workgroup is boxee
WINS server is boxeebox

Boxee Box > Settings > Network > Servers
Enable web server is not checked
Enable Windows file sharing is checked
Share password (user name: guest) is blank
Share workgroup is boxee
Host name is boxeebox

MacbookPro > Sharing
All are unchecked, including File Sharing

that is... fascinating. i think what that configuration is doing is turning on our wins server and telling your time capsule to register itself with our wins server, so we can later do a lookup and see it locally. bizarre.

can't the time capsule be set up to share partitions over smb? that should be all you need.

**dconti** · November 13th, 2010, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by dconti

that is... fascinating. i think what that configuration is doing is turning on our wins server and telling your time capsule to register itself with our wins server, so we can later do a lookup and see it locally. bizarre.

can't the time capsule be set up to share partitions over smb? that should be all you need.

try this out but only setting the workgroup field on the time capsule to 'workgroup' and see if that works.

**nathanp** · November 13th, 2010, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by dconti

try this out but only setting the workgroup field on the time capsule to 'workgroup' and see if that works.

And it's working again. I changed the workgroup and nothing else, rebooted the TC then rebooted the BB and it's working again. I'm wondering if it's the TC reboot that is helping; maybe that is unmounting the drives from the network and then re-mounting them? If it stops again I'll try just that and see if it works.