Mount a Remote Drive via SSHFS
This is useful as sshfs can provide access to large files! Ripped DVD playback!
Install sshfs for Darwin (Mac OS X)
Then mount the remote drive to a directory on your AppleTV:
mount_sshfs Username@Host:/path/to/drive/ /Users/frontrow/Movies/media/
Installing straight onto the Apple TV
- First, download and install the kext enabler from http://0xfeedbeef.com/appletv/, and run
- Download the latest .dmg file from http://mac.pqrs.org/sshfs/ and copy it onto the apple tv
- Mount the dmg with
hdiutil mount sshfs-2.5.1.dmg
- Extract the sshfs pax file:
cd /Volumes/sshfs/sshfs-2.5.1.pkg/Contents/ cp Archive.pax.gz /tmp cd /tmp gunzip Archive.pax mkdir sshfs cd sshfs pax -r < ../Archive.pax
- Copy the files to where they should be
cd Applications cp -r sshfs /Applications/ cd ../Library cp -r StartupItems /Library
- Load the kext with
kextload /Library/StartupItems/urdfs/urdfs.kext
- Symlink mount_sshfs into sbin with
ln -s /Applications/sshfs/bin/mount_sshfs /usr/sbin
- Mount away!