Wake On Lan

[anneb]

Hi Martin,

When I do the Ls command its showing the mvpmc folder as empty, the config file is in the etc dir. I did a reboot and it brings up the mvpmc screen but going into emulation mode just runs through the trying to connect to server and then drops me back to the menu

The shared directory "mvpmc" is in the c directory and according to windows is shared. I set it up using the shrpubw command and set shares to admin write and others read as per intstructions, in that folder is the dongle.bin.config file with one line
mvpmc --startup emulate --emulate 192.16.10.17 --em-wolwt 30 &

but it still wont kick the server into life

[mvallevand]

Hi Martin,

When I do the Ls command its showing the mvpmc folder as empty, the config file is in the etc dir. I did a reboot and it brings up the mvpmc screen but going into emulation mode just runs through the trying to connect to server and then drops me back to the menu

This sounds like you shutdown your gbpvr machine after loading the dongle but before running emulation mode.

The shared directory "mvpmc" is in the c directory and according to windows is shared. I set it up using the shrpubw command and set shares to admin write and others read as per intstructions, in that folder is the dongle.bin.config file with one line
mvpmc --startup emulate --emulate 192.16.10.17 --em-wolwt 30 &

but it still wont kick the server into life

1) I'm a bit confused what the ip address of your gbpvr server is, you are now showing a forth different address. If it changes because you use dhcp you have to use the option --emulate ?

2) If you telnet to your mvp issue this command (I will assume you are on a 192.168.10 subnet).

nbtscan -r 192.168.10.0/24

It should show the pc's with windows shares available to you. If your gbpvr machine doesn't show up it is possible you haven't enable netbios over tcpip in your advanced tcp/ip settings or you have some firewall preventing access.

3) From the Command prompt on your gbpvr machine type this

net share

Do you see output with something like this?

Share name Resource Remark
------------------------------------------------
movies C:\movies
mvpmc c:\mvpmc

The command completed successfully.

Martin

[anneb]

Change of ip address is due to a change of pc, I was going to change to this machine anyway and it seemed a bit silly to get this all set up and have to change it again. so the ip address is 192.168.10.17
I ran net share and c:\mvpmc is showing

I ran nbtscan and this pc shows on that too

I'll reboot the mvp again when I get a chance but there will be a mutiny if I interupt tv again tonight

Are you saying that I need to reboot the mvp and go through all the set up screens and go into emulation mode before I let the gbpvr hibernate?

[mvallevand]

Change of ip address is due to a change of pc, I was going to change to this machine anyway and it seemed a bit silly to get this all set up and have to change it again. so the ip address is 192.168.10.17
I ran net share and c:\mvpmc is showing

I ran nbtscan and this pc shows on that too

I'll reboot the mvp again when I get a chance but there will be a mutiny if I interupt tv again tonight

Are you saying that I need to reboot the mvp and go through all the set up screens and go into emulation mode before I let the gbpvr hibernate?

Yes you must go into gbpvr once to get the mac address. That should be fairly automatic with a --startup emulate anyway.

As for your guest account there's also the cacls command, check yours, it should how output something like

C:\mvpmc\dongle.bin.config Guest:R
BUILTIN\Administrators:F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F
XPHOME\Martin:F
BUILTIN\Users:R

If is isn't then you might need to modify the ACL using this as an example
cacls dongle.bin.config /E /G Guest:R

I recommend reading about the calcls command before using it.

Also a good Microsoft KB article might help

http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...-us;304040

Sorry I can't help much more than this. If this all fails maybe someone else can add something.

Martin

[anneb]

Ok Martin,

I'll give that a try later. Thanks for your help and patience