wiimc and Mac osx 10.7 Lion

[thomasino]

As soon as I installed 10.7 Lion on my computer, I was unable to connect to my wii via wiimc. Anybody else having this issue? Any solutions?

[erclsb]

Apple has dropped support for SMB shares from Lion in favor of their own variant, SMBX. FTP shares are still supported, but the GUI has been removed so it’s supported through terminal commands only.

So, unless WiiMC allows AFP or SMBX access in a future version the only thing you can do is roll back to 10.6.

[erclsb]

I’ve found a workaround for the SMB issue: Using the Terminal to initiate a FTP server from my 10.7 Mac hosting the video files. You can circumvent SMB completely.

Follow the procedure on this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4704

Note: In step 3, just add yourself as the group. My terminal command was “dseditgroup -o edit -u aaronnicholson -a aaronnicholson -t group com.apple.access_ftp”.

Then it’s just a matter of setting up the FTP share in WiiMC.

[qwertymodo]

Thanks, but this isn’t working for me, I just get “failed to connect to fTP site” after I set it up. Followed the directions I think. Did all the terminal commands. What exactly is the group? is this the name of the folder you want to share? How about the other settings, port and so forth?

[Anonymous]

Thank you, It works I was ready to downgrade for the stupid lion. I need to browse to the folders that the only inconvenience. Apple so good and so bad.

[erclsb]

@MacGuffin wrote:

Thanks, but this isn’t working for me, I just get “failed to connect to fTP site” after I set it up. Followed the directions I think. Did all the terminal commands. What exactly is the group? is this the name of the folder you want to share? How about the other settings, port and so forth?

1) The group name is irrelevant. That’s why it’s simpler to just use your own account name.

2) You don’t need to define a folder to share like in SMB. It’s shares from the root level of the HD.

3) Leaving the port number alone worked fine for me.

[qwertymodo]

No clue why I can’t connect with FTP. I will try it again from scratch when I get a chance tomorrow and see if I can get it working.

[qwertymodo]

Sorry but I still can’t get this to work at all.

I followed the instructions in the apple support article, in step 3 I seem to be able to make users but not groups. when I try to add myself as a group the terminal says “Record was not found.”

Then in wiimc, I put in my imac’s internal ip address. put in my admin name and password and just get a message “failed to connect to IP site” when I try to connect. I left folder blank like you said.

[qwertymodo]

OK I found something today called PureFTPd Manager, which after a bit of tinkering seemed to help get all the settings working.

[thomasino]

I followed aaron’s post and was successful linking it through ftp. Like aaron says, for the second entry in terminal, be sure to have your user name entered twice. If copying and pasting from apple support site, you must replace “ladmin” and “jacob”. Thank you to aaron.

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