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Hiya, thanks for your continued responses, much appreciated!

I have an unusual setup. Being based in the UK, I use my iMac to download stuff from the States overnight. Then I send the files over to the Apple TV wirelessly, and also use a separate hard drive occasionally attached to the iMac to back up the files. Simple drag and drop appeals (Cyberduck does this over FTP or SFTP, doesn't offer SMB / Samba, Boxee instructions didn't mention this). Also to be honest I don't watch streamed content much, so the Boxee user interface is a bit too busy for me. I like that the aTV Flash solution just extends the Apple TV navigation for me, as does the wife who's even less tech savvy than I am!

I'm taking the line of least resistence here, aTV Flash does everything I need and I don't have to research / understand AppleShare, AFS, AppleTalk, and work out how to configure both machines. At some point I'll try Boxee again, at which point if FTP isn't enabled I'll have a look at SMB / Samba. For now I've paid for aTV Flash a while ago and it's meeting my needs.

I realise this probably isn't what the Boxee community wants to hear but figured that being open about it might help in some way...

Thanks again for your help,
Phil

I'm afraid I don't know what SMB is...it isn't an option in Cyberduck. I've done a quick web search and it looks as though it's mainly a Windows thing?

I guess my point is that there are workarounds (for instance I could try and hook up a USB drive to the Apple TV) but the FTP thing seems like a simple barrier to resolve. And this barrier doesn't exist in aTV Flash.

Cheers,
Phil – Casablanca, on April 07, 2009 09:08