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How to Apple TV Source MacMini

Posted: 07 Mar 2020, 18:22
by badticket
Hi
can you help me using MRMC watch movies located on my MacMini via Apple TV?

I‘am a beginner on Apple Cosmos and tried to make a smb share on my macmini. But ATV while using MRMC gets problems with share name & password.

On my windows PC it runs perfect but I want to use my Mac to do the same.

Is there a howto with MRMC? Or can someone explain it to me ? What is the best way to do this ?

Thank you for your support :mrgreen:

greetz

badticket

Re: How to Apple TV Source MacMini

Posted: 11 Mar 2020, 18:01
by badticket
Dear all, Dear MRMC Support,

really no-one who want or can answer to my simple questions ?

Shall I have to use Plex instead of MRMC ? That would be a pitty...

I'am looking forward to hear something from here ... :?

Greetz

Badticket

Re: How to Apple TV Source MacMini

Posted: 11 Mar 2020, 19:27
by snookums
really - you post almost no helpful information and you want support?

how about, what you actually done already?

there are plenty of easily found guides for setting up SMB sharing on a Mac. did you follow any of those?

now that i've properly harassed you, here's what i have done.

system preferences > users & groups > (+)
create sharing only user
system preferences > sharing > file sharing (on)
folder (+)
options... > Windows File Sharing > (√) [sharing only user created above]
re-enter sharing-only user password

Choosing that Windows File sharing option is the critical bit. You can do the other setup in different ways depending your desire. eg if you want the user to have read-write instead of read-only sharing.

Re: How to Apple TV Source MacMini

Posted: 12 Mar 2020, 03:09
by davilla
use libsmb2 instead of the default libsmbclient.

Re: How to Apple TV Source MacMini

Posted: 03 Apr 2020, 16:19
by snookums
in my case libsmb2 did not work. i used libdsm (tip/note for that choice mentions OSX) which did work.