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Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Electronic Cigarette — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:00:39 -0000

Opening the Apple TV and connecting the hard drive to your Intel Mac are covered in the hard drive upgrade and elsewhere, so we’ll skip those steps and jump right to the point where you have the OSBoot and Media volumes mounted on your Mac.

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

K Michael — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:27:38 -0000

Thanks to everyone for sharing all the good information on here.

I was able to upgrade my original Apple TV 40GB to a new 250GB drive over the past 24 hours. In addition I was able to use the Patchstick to add Boxee and XBMC along with gaining access to my ATV via AFP with the help of afpinstall.sh script.

Here's my question. Prior to running the afpinstall.sh I was able to run XBMC and Boxee without any issues. Now when I launch XBMC, it starts in a window, not full screen. I tried setting the display option to Fullscreen but that just blanks the screen.

Boxee has a similar issue. The application is running but you can see the User Interface (UI).

I'm making an assumption that the afpinstall.sh script possibly changed some display setting which has caused this to happen.

Has anyone else run into this problem? If so, what's the resolution.

Thanks!

K Michael

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Rick — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:19:02 -0000

Hi,

I took apart my Apple TV last night and followed all of the instructions to enable SSH and when I tried to SSH into it using Terminal. I get a SSH exchange notifiction rejection error.

I am running 2.3 of the Apple TV software.

Do I need to open up a port in my Linksys Router?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Rick

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Rudy — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:17:25 -0000

After doing the SSH upgrade and trying to get into ATV, I get the following error

SSH v2
ssh -v frontrow@10.20.0.13
OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 10.20.0.13 [10.20.0.13] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 10.20.0.13 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 10.20.0.13 port 22: Connection refused

SSH v1
ssh -1v frontrow@10.20.0.13
OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 10.20.0.13 [10.20.0.13] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 10.20.0.13 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 10.20.0.13 port 22: Connection refused

i also did the "chmod +x /Volumes/OSBoot/usr/sbin/sshd" and copy the
ssh.plist from my MacBook 10.5.5. Need Help I been at it with no success

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

roulette online — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:52:34 -0000

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Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Mike — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:33:44 -0000

From awkwardtv wiki:

"As discussed in the forum, these instructions don't quite get the full way for enabling SSH on a "Take 2" AppleTV.

Simply following them and trying to SSH to the AppleTV will result in an error message:

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

In addition to copying over /usr/sbin/sshd and /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist per the above, the forum recommends (and I can attest to this working) also copying the following files:

* /usr/bin/ssh
* /usr/bin/ssh-add
* /usr/bin/ssh-agent
* /usr/bin/ssh-keygen
* /usr/bin/ssh-keyscan
* /usr/bin/scp
* /usr/libexec/sftp-server
* /usr/libexec/ssh-keysign
* /usr/libexec/sshd-keygen-wrapper

You only need to copy over /usr/libexec/sftp-server, /usr/libexec/sshd-keygen-wrapper, and the kerberos framework. The other files would be needed if you wanted to ssh out of the appletv to other devices, but not to ssh into it.

* Note: /usr/bin/ssh-keygen is also required since this one generates the host keys first time you SSH to your AppleTV! (hence it takes a while that 1st time). "

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/w...

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

sunil — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:02:13 -0000

debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/motorwerks/.ssh/identity
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/motorwerks/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/motorwerks/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
password:

I enter frontrow but does not work

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

sunil — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:01:34 -0000

OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.16 [192.168.1.16] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/motorwerks/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/motorwerks/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/motorwerks/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.8.1p1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 pat OpenSSH_3.*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.7
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

sunil — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:54 -0000

After doing the SSH upgrade and trying to get into ATV, I get the following error

debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to appletv.local [192.168.1.16] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.16 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host appletv.local port 22: Connection refused

Any ideas?

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Stephen Bolter — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:37:23 -0000

I am looking for software or someone to help me write software to replay video out of an apple TV or a mac mini, the software needs to be sheduled and made to play by serial control...

Anyone interested ?? Stephen

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Julia — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:41:16 -0000

I applied both the ssh and usb patches from iClarified and now everytime I plug a usb stick into the usb port to play some movies from it the AppleTV is rebooting and rebbooting again - until I remove the usb stick. Any ideas? I have ssh access and everythings seems fine (version 2.0.2) except for accessing usb drives...

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Josh G. — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:47:42 -0000

Quick follow up -- I did get AFP installed successfully by moving the files referenced in the shell script from the Apple TV 1.0 recover image to the locations indicated. There are two symbolic links that are created in the script, as well as the creation of a hostconfig file, which is moved and then the ownership is changed to root:wheel. I simply used the same commands create those. After a quick reboot, command-k, enter the ip address of the unit, and choose what mount point you want.

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Josh G. — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:28:35 -0000

@Brett -- the issue seems to be that the recovery partition that the script mounts from the Apple TV hard drive is expected to contain version 1.0 or 1.1 of the OS, though the unit may well be upgraded to 2.0-2.02. As far as I can tell, newer versions of Apple TV have version 2.0-2.02 of the OS on the recovery partition, and these exclude the necessary files. I'm attempting to download version 1.1 from bit torrent (only a bad copy found so far, but I think I've found 1.0 that is solid) and get the files from the image directly, and copy them to the correct locations (which can be seen in the script).

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

brett — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:15:16 -0000

I am trying to get this to work but keep getting the following output once I have run the "sudo sh afpinstall.sh"

Mounting the drive...
399+1 records in
399+1 records out
419405824 bytes transferred in 59.451415 secs (7054598 bytes/sec)
/dev/disk1 /Volumes/Recovery
Checksumming Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)...
Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0): verified CRC32 $C85953CF
Checksumming Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)...
Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1): verified CRC32 $5590B43F
Checksumming disk image (Apple_HFS : 2)...
..............................................................................
disk image (Apple_HFS : 2): verified CRC32 $683D3268
Checksumming (Apple_Free : 3)...
(Apple_Free : 3): verified CRC32 $00000000
verified CRC32 $552DAE38
/dev/disk2 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk2s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/OSBoot 1
Installing the Frameworks...
Installing the Filesystem Extensions...
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare: No such file or directory
Installing into CoreServices...
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app: No such file or directory
Installing the PrivateFrameworks...
Installing into /usr/bin...
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/bin/atlookup: No such file or directory
Installing into /usr/lib...
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/lib/pam/pam_afpmount.so: No such file or directory
Installing into /usr/sbin...
ln: /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer: File exists
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/sbin/appletalk: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/sbin/automount: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/sbin/blued: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/sbin/portmap: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/sbin/slp_reg: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/sbin/slpd: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/usr/sbin/xinetd: No such file or directory
Installing into /sbin...
cp: /Volumes/OSBoot 1/sbin/mount_afp: No such file or directory
Updating /etc/hostconfig to start AFP at boot...
Done!

You can see it is having a hard time finding the files - any ideas (running apple tv take 2.02)

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Mike — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:54:03 -0000

I turned on the afp (Take 2 version 2.02) by using the following

Download the afpinstall.sh
http://www.benmackin.com/st...

using terminal, copy the file to Apple TV
scp -1 -r afpinstall.sh frontrow@appletv.local:~/

Run the script
ssh to Apple TV
sudo sh afpinstall.sh

CHEERS TO floto !

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Mike — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:52:51 -0000

I turned on the afp (Take 2 version 2.02) by using the following

Download the afpinstall.sh
http://www.benmackin.com/st...

using terminal, copy the file to Apple TV
scp -1 -r afpinstall.sh frontrow@appletv.local:~/

Run the script
ssh to Apple TV
sudo sh afpinstall.sh

CHEERS TO oohmyygoood!

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

oohmyygoood — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:04:54 -0000

Hi,

Is physically taking out the aTV's hard disk the only way to get access to it?

If the aTV is on the same wireless network as the Mac, surely there must be some other way to access it over the network? I mean, iTunes IS already accessing it over the same network when syncronising.

And Apple Core's aTV Flash did it from an USB data key stuck into the aTV.

Isn't there a better way than opening the aTV and thereby compromising the warranty?

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

floto — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:48:38 -0000

hi again

after hours of trying finally the AFP is working.

i checked if the AppleFileServer app is on the apple tv. NO its not.

well simple idea: get it from leopard on my macbook pro to apple tv.

scp is not working. or i could get it to work. and i preferred to put the energy to the AFP issue instead. that's why i had to make another build out/ build in loop of the HD of apple tv.

1. get the HD from app tv built out again (i stopped counting how many times i did that...) and plugged it in to my USB slot on my macbook pro.
2. copied the AppleFileServer.app to /OSBoot/System/Library/CoreServices/
3. built in the HD again
4. cmd K (connect to server): afp://your.appletv.IP
5. un: frontrow / pw: frontrow

done.

because i wanted to try other possibilities i also copied this file:
http://www.benmackin.com/st...

from this howto:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/w...

an let it run on apple tv after logging in with ssh:
sudo sh afpinstall.sh

so i'm not a 100% sure which made it possible to use AFP inthe end.

hope that helps somehow

#
floto

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

floto — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:18:31 -0000

i also lost every installed app/plugin an ssh/afp when i did the 2.0.2 update.

well it took me some time, but this howto will explain everything:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/w...

2 most important things to read:

A. you will need the sshd from the patchstick > downloadable here: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/w...

and is located here:
Patchstick/Patchstick/atvloader/AwkwardTV.frappliance/Contents/Resources/sshd

the sshd from leopard will not work!

B. you need to copy some addition files and chown and chmod them (i did all of them and it worked fine)
see in notes for take 2:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/w...

For example:
sudo chown 0:0 /Volumes/OSBoot/usr/bin/ssh
chmod 755 /Volumes/OSBoot/usr/bin/ssh

#
floto

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Tom — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:40:51 -0000

Hi,

I somehow dont get the AFP running. The AppleFileServer is there but when I try to sudo it, it tells me "command not found" any help?

Tom

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Den — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:44:51 -0000

Ouch

You people are right about 2.0.2 disabling ssh: http://forum.awkwardtv.org/...
However, the replies in this post tend to indicate that the patchstick solution still looks viable.

As for myself, I remained under 2.0.1 and then blocked the Autoupdate feature.

In fact (this is a personal opinion, of course), I think ATV is really fun to hack (learned a lot doing it), but I must admit I rarely use it, that's why I don't really care about the updates ;o)

__
Den

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Shaun Tilford — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:03:48 -0000

Appears to be an issue with update 2.0.2 disabling ssh. I am encountering the same issues as listed with getting in.... connection is dropped by the appletv everytime.

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Mark — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:51:48 -0000

OK gang,

I can't figure it out. I followed steps 99 & 100 to the letter, copied the files from my old Tiger machine, altered all the ownerships and permissions, and I still get a port 22 refused error.

Am I missing something? I read somewhere about disabling the firewall? Any ideas?

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Accu — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:08:24 -0000

Hi,
I'm facing still issues with my ATV. I have done everything as mentioned in the instructions above but I still do not get SSH working.
I always get the following error message: ""ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host"
Not sure if this prob comes because I have upgraded the ATV to version 2.0.2 before I did all modifications. Any ideas?

Re: Enable SSH & AFP on your Apple TV

Brett — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:09:23 -0000

I am running Take 2 on a brand new AppleTV box and was able to get SSH installed but can not find AppleFileServer anywhere... not on any install disks for Leopard or Tiger or anywhere else.

Can someone please point me to where I can get the AppleFileServer file??

Thanks