Video library tab in EWA

[adrian_vg@yahoo.com]

Hi all,

The Video library tab in EWA and the video-folders I see in there, do not always show the contents. Do I have to do something special to make EWA see the contents, or should the contents just show up?

I use PVRX2 1.0.16.

TIA.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Hi all,

The Video library tab in EWA and the video-folders I see in there, do not always show the contents. Do I have to do something special to make EWA see the contents, or should the contents just show up?

I use PVRX2 1.0.16.

TIA.

Are your libraries on a network share? If so, that is more than likely the issue? EWA runs as a web process and will not have access to the network shares. You can use this utility to overcome the problem....works nicely.

[scb147]

UncleJohnsBand,

I asked this in another post, but I wanted to ask here to since this post is more recent. But how exactly do I get EWA to work with UseShare? I have a couple network shares that I'd like to see using EWA. I setup UseShare according to the author's website, but I have no idea what to do after that. Where are these UseShare drives "mounted"?

Thanks.

[adrian_vg@yahoo.com]

Are your libraries on a network share? If so, that is more than likely the issue? EWA runs as a web process and will not have access to the network shares. You can use this utility to overcome the problem....works nicely.

Yepp, they are. I use a windows domain with clients and servers at home. My PVR-computer is just another client in the domain and I set the netwrok shares where the movies and stuff are to allow System and Authenticated users to have Full Control. I assumed this'd be enough.

I think I saw this reference to a fix in another thread but wasn't sure it applied to me and the problem I had. Will check it out though.

Thx for the pointer!

[UncleJohnsBand]

I will try to capture each step of what I needed to do to get the UseShare utility.

• Create a text file that ends in .reg.
  
• This file should contain the following:

[INDENT]

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UseShare\Parameters]
"Application"="C:\\Program Files\\babgvant\\UseShare\\UseShare.exe"
"AppDirectory"="C:\\Program Files\\\\babgvant\\UseShare\\"

[/INDENT]

• Now right click on the reg file that you just created and choose to Merge. This will add it to the registry.
  
• Download UseShare software.
  
• Run the install of the software.
  
• It will install to directory:
  Code:

  C:\Program Files\babgvant\UseShare
• Edit the UseShare.exe.config file to have the following format. Make sure to use the same format substituting in your share name, user id on the machine running the UseShare service and the user password.
  • This user id and password will need to be defined on the PC or NAS that is hosting the share.

[INDENT]

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="server1" value="\\share-machine\share-name /USER:machine-running-service\userid-on-machine-running-service user-password /persistent:yes"/>
       </appSettings>
</configuration>

Example:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="server1" value="\\myNAS\Videos /USER:PCInDen\UJB myPwd /persistent:yes"/>
       </appSettings>
</configuration>

[/INDENT]

• Restart your pc
  
• After restarting go into your services.
  • The service will be named Configures shares for Network Service via .Net Use (I know....looks stupid to me too...I think the programmer got the Name and Description fields mixed up since the description is simply UseShare )
    
    
  • Right click on this service and select properties
    
  • Click on the logon tab and change it to be Local System Account and interact with desktop.
    
  • Click Apply
    
  • Click Ok
    
  • Exit out of the properties for the service
    
  • Right click on the service again
    
  • Click stop
    
  • Right click on the service again
    
  • Click start
  
  
• At this point the service should start
  
• Look in your Application Event log and you should see an entry for UseShare and it should read command completed successfully.
  
• Now....try to access the network share(s) via EWA....you should be able to access no problem.

Note: You can change the name of the service after all this is done by going into Regedit and drilling down to the key for the service:

Code:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UseShare\

Just modify the name and description fields to be what you want.

Let me know.....I will be glad to help if I can.

[scb147]

UJB,

Thanks for the step-by-step instructions. This works great!