HOW TO: Share an HFS+ drive on Boxee Box

[minel]

Here's a little tutorial to help people with OS X and external HFS+ drives add them as USB drives to Boxee Box and share them:

- Plug drive into Mac
- Open Disk Utility
- Select the drive, hold Alt (Option) key and press File
- Select Disable Journaling
- Open Finger, right click on the drive and select Get Info
- Make sure Everyone is added and select Read and Write for their rights
- Click the golden lock and authenticate
- Click the little setting button by the Minus on the bottom and select "Apply to enclosed items"
- Eject the drive and plug it into the Boxee Box
- On the Boxee Box, under Network Settings / Servers
- Select "Enable Windows Sharing"
- Leave no password and user is guest
- Make sure you know the servername "boxeebox" is default
- On the Mac you should now see boxeebox under "shared" in Finder
- If you don't see it, open Finder, press Command + K and enter "smb://boxeebox" without quotes
- Select Guest account and select the partition that you want to connect to.

Job Done. Hope it works for you

[mrtonk]

Hi,

I was able to get my HFS+ usb drive working via the BB's smb share option using the info provided, but even though I can now read and write files/folders, I'm not able to remove files or folders using the mac's 'Move to Trash' option from Finder.

Any ideas?

[minel]

press cmd + delete on the files you want to delete and see what happens... they don't get moved to trash.. they are erased directly .. trash is for local files only

[mrtonk]

Thanks, should have a thought of that.

BTW it's option key + delete that works for this method, not sure if it's changed in SL or not.

Cheers again.

[minel]

it's command + delete... the key left / right of space + the delete key... dunno what you're using but i'm quite sure it's not alt / option

[cecemf]

Work for me for a day but after a restart from the BB doesn't work any more see here :
http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=24278

I don't seem to be the only one with this issue

[cecemf]

Work for me for a day but after a restart from the BB doesn't work any more see here :
http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=24278

I don't seem to be the only one with this issue

Hi guys,

I think it's time for someone (er, not me! ) to cohesively gather up the information from the this thread and submit a ticket (http://jira.boxee.tv).

Carefully submit the exact steps to duplicate it so the devs can track down the root cause and fix it. Pointing to this thread wouldn't hurt either

Done -> http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-7623

Please people vote to make sure it's solved soon !

They talk about it also here :
http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-69...7#action_34187

[redlon]

Does anyone get an error when trying to disable journaling on their HFS+ formatted hard drive using the Disk Utility? I get an error stating "Journaling could not be disabled on the volume 'Media'". I've been searching the Apple Support forums as well but have yet to find a solution. Any ideas?

I'm running a Core 2 Duo Macbook with 10.6.5.

[minel]

Do/Did you ever have Time Machine backups on it ever?
I couldn't do it on a drive that i'm using time machine to backup to... which makes sense

[redlon]

That did the trick...thanks minel, appreciate the help.