I can't get my AppleTV to execute an automount command from either my /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local

These are the two commands I'm trying:

su frontrow -c '/sbin/mount_afp afp://username:password@<IPAddress>/media /mnt/Server'

su frontrow -c '/sbin/mount_nfs <IPAddress>:/Volumes/media /mnt/Server'

I've tried without the su command as well. You can probably tell what I'm trying to do here. If I execute these manually, they work and if I sudo sh /etc/rc.local it works as well.

Any ideas of:

a> what's wrong?
b> how I can troubleshoot the problem?

Thanks in advance!

I found the plugin over on awkwardtv sorted all my problems out, its easy to use and works well...

http://plugins.awkwardtv.org/det.php?recordID=vfxshare

Perfect - did the trick. It does bother me a bit why I couldn't get rc.local working but I'll probably get over it....

hi fishnchips.

I would suggest to redirect STDOUT and ERROUT to a file and then you'll see what's wrong with it.
gtx,
pheno

Originally Posted by pheno

hi fishnchips.

I would suggest to redirect STDOUT and ERROUT to a file and then you'll see what's wrong with it.
gtx,
pheno

And how do we do that? I couldn't find an example how to do that, only alot of programming examples.
The ATVSharemounter didn't work for me probably because i don't use a user name or password on my NAS.

I'm having the same problem. I've tried using numerous commands mount_afp, mount and it doesnt work.

Adding 2> filename to the end of the line in the rc.local file will output stderr to a file. When i try this I get the usual rubbish about /mach and kextload: and at the end it says: "mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -1069, errno is -1069" which is obviously why its not working.

When the ATV have finished booting if i run the exact same command manually it mounts without a problem.

Anyone got any ideas? Or perhaps a better explanation of how aTV-sharemounter works and what goes in the xml file?

Thanks