I've done two things in the past week or so (1) upgrade the OS from 5.0rc-3 to 5.0-rc8a and (2) run the "New Permissions" process under the unRAID webGUI "Utils" because I accidentally moved a handful of movies as root and couldn't access them as 'nobody' user. Now I cannot even play TV show episodes anymore on the ATV1/XBMC.

 

I believe the AFP is working fine to access the unRAID server, because I can mount and play TV episodes on my Mac Pro desktop running Mountain Lion by:

Go -> Connect to Server ... -> Server Address: afp://10.0.1.30/TV -> Connect -> Registered Name: nobody Password: (left blank) -> OK -> mounts drive but takes ~1 min to load all of the folders, but again I can play all the episodes. Interestingly, the Server Address: afp://Tower._afpovertcp._tcp.local/TV  also works with the Mac Pro.

 

Also, when telnetting in as root with Putty, I can see the permissions is set to the username "nobody" part of the "users" usergroup by executing # ls -l    when I'm in the /mtn/user/TV/ user share directory.

e.g.,    root@Tower:~# drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users  576 2012-09-16 14:07 Breaking\ Bad/root@Tower:/mnt/user/TV# drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users  576 2012-09-16 14:07 Breaking\ Bad/

 

When I use my Apple TV 1 running XBMC, I for some reason cannot gain proper permissions to open/play the episode files with this approach:

1-arrow to the right on the TV Shows main menu, select Files.

2-select “Add Videos…”, select “Browse”, arrow down and select “Zeroconf Browser”

3-locate the name of your unRaid server, e.g., “Tower (AFP)” and click on it,

4-select the directory/share you want to make accessible to XBMC e.g., TV, click OK

The connection then shows:    afp://10.0.1.30:548/TV/

5- Enter a name for this media Source: “TV Shows server” -> OK

 

I can see the TV Show directories but cannot play the episodes. Please advise on what I might be doing incorrectly.

 

 

unRAID specs:  unRAID Server Pro version: 5.0-rc8a, "Tower" as static IP 10.0.1.30, AFP enabled

What are the share security settings? Is is set to public? Does the ATV connect to the server with username and password?

AFP Share Secure Settings

Export: Yes

Security: Public

TimeMachine volume size limit: (Empty)

 

No, the ATV just connects to password protected Wi-Fi. I know this is not the issue because when I use the Zeroconf Browser, I can actually navigate through the unRAID "Tower" shares.

 

For ATV1 only, XBMC runs as an application within the Mac OS, so XBMC only needs to mount the actual AFP Share/Directory.

Not sure about AFP (I am not generally an Apple user), but whenever I have used XBMC on my original Apple TV I always used SMB shares from the server.