GeeXboX Advanced Configuration – Login and Administration

September 17th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Root Password

GeeXboX system only has one user, root. Its associated password is “root” as well.

Debug Login

Connecting to GeeXboX is possible through a native terminal (VT) or a remote Telnet shell.

  • Trought VT-2
    Switch to VT-2 with:

    CTL+ALT+F2

  • Trought Telnet
    See Telnet section.

Accessing GeeXboX via FTP Service

FTP service is enabled by default.

Login:              geexbox
Password:        ftp

  • From XBMC, in system menu, check for your IP address.
  • Open a navigator from another computer and type: ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  • Supply login and password

Now you can download/upload files from/to your GeeXboX system.
If you want to send files, use a FTP software such as Filezilla.

Accessing GeeXboX via Telnet Service

Telnet service is enabled by default.

Login :            root
Password :      root

  • From XBMC, in system menu, check for your IP address.
  • Open a terminal
  • telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  • Supply root login and password.

 

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  1. thisismyname
    October 1st, 2011 at 03:02 | #1

    Probably add a section:

    Update GeeXboX via Telnet

    Login via Telnet

    opkg update
    opkg upgrade

    (took me few minute to figure out which package manager is used)

  2. raducu
    October 26th, 2011 at 13:04 | #2

    @thisismyname
    Hi, thank you for the info provided, but when I execute the update and upgrade commands, nothing happens. Also, if I try to install some package, like vsftpd, I get an error sayng package not found. I’m not really familiar with opkg, could you maybe tell me if there is something else I should do to be able to install packages?

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