2008-11-28, 10:27 PM
Ok... Hopefully someone can get this to work for me. I'm pretty talented at networking (I'm a network engineer!) but for some reason I'm getting nowhere with this.
Basic info
-100Mbit wired network, lots of clients
-Windows Server 2003 with proxy server (no GBPVR, its handing out DHCP addresses, no Active Directory or anything, shouldn't affect what I'm doing)
-Windows XP box running GB-PVR as server in living room (has been working great for 2 years, just installed latest release)
-Windows 2000 laptop client I'd like to get set up for GBPVR, Pentium III 800Mhz. (I know its slow but it can watch video fine over the network using a share directory for recordings outside of GBPVR)
-Windows Vista x64 AMD64 5600+ client I'd like to get set up for GBPVR (Nice fast computer my main one)
-Windows XP Pro Pentium 4 1.8Ghz client it'd like to get set up for GBPVR (Decent machine).
- Windows Firewall disabled on all clients (using security features on proxy server)
- Share for recordings and stream buffer shared as mapped network drive, access tested and OK for full control
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Ok I tried initially to get the GB-PVR client set up on the laptop because my girlfriend seems to enjoy watching TV on the laptop in bed more than in the living room for kicks. Got a bit frustrated as I just couldn't get it working.
So I tried on my main machine (thinking it could be horsepower, DirectX or wireless network) and am getting the exact same problems.
The recording service on the client is connected, it is showing what the server is currently recording while it's recording it and shows green. (NO TV cards on anything but the GB-PVR server).
Launching PVRX2 is where problems begin.
- No list of recordings
- No program guide (actually shows a bunch of stuff like @showTitleSubtitle , @duration, and empty program guide altogether, then flips to a black screen)
- Upon waiting and waiting for the EPG (dox says it may take a while to load the EPG), eventually it returns to the main menu
- Live TV shows a black screen that ends in nothing.
I am monitoring IP traffic out of the client and notice that there is no traffic while it's waiting for live TV or the EPG (well, 250 bytes/sec but thats nothing).
All machines are listed in the same workgroup (2003 server is not running a domain). I can share the files fine and communicate with the server, I can ping it by computer name so I assume GB-PVR can communicate to it by machine name as well.
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Common wisdom would assume that I have the settings correct if the Recording Status on the client is pulling the right capture card and program that it's recording, it's obviously connecting to the server; that info isn't stored anywhere on the client.
So what is the deal with when I launch the PVRX2 and nothing works? I must be missing something here, maybe you guys who have it working have learned a few tricks of the trade? Some obscure setting on the server I must have wrong, or to check?
And again, Windows Firewall is disabled across the board. I double checked. Permissions are OK as well, I just set it to Everyone full control and set it all to pass down to child objects across the whole gbpvr directory. I've been using a mapped drive to watch MPEG recordings manually for quite some time and have been deleting old shows as well, I did a test in the gbpvr dir to make sure I could create a text file, modify it and delete it so permission should be good.
What am I missing here?
Basic info
-100Mbit wired network, lots of clients
-Windows Server 2003 with proxy server (no GBPVR, its handing out DHCP addresses, no Active Directory or anything, shouldn't affect what I'm doing)
-Windows XP box running GB-PVR as server in living room (has been working great for 2 years, just installed latest release)
-Windows 2000 laptop client I'd like to get set up for GBPVR, Pentium III 800Mhz. (I know its slow but it can watch video fine over the network using a share directory for recordings outside of GBPVR)
-Windows Vista x64 AMD64 5600+ client I'd like to get set up for GBPVR (Nice fast computer my main one)
-Windows XP Pro Pentium 4 1.8Ghz client it'd like to get set up for GBPVR (Decent machine).
- Windows Firewall disabled on all clients (using security features on proxy server)
- Share for recordings and stream buffer shared as mapped network drive, access tested and OK for full control
----------
Ok I tried initially to get the GB-PVR client set up on the laptop because my girlfriend seems to enjoy watching TV on the laptop in bed more than in the living room for kicks. Got a bit frustrated as I just couldn't get it working.
So I tried on my main machine (thinking it could be horsepower, DirectX or wireless network) and am getting the exact same problems.
The recording service on the client is connected, it is showing what the server is currently recording while it's recording it and shows green. (NO TV cards on anything but the GB-PVR server).
Launching PVRX2 is where problems begin.
- No list of recordings
- No program guide (actually shows a bunch of stuff like @showTitleSubtitle , @duration, and empty program guide altogether, then flips to a black screen)
- Upon waiting and waiting for the EPG (dox says it may take a while to load the EPG), eventually it returns to the main menu
- Live TV shows a black screen that ends in nothing.
I am monitoring IP traffic out of the client and notice that there is no traffic while it's waiting for live TV or the EPG (well, 250 bytes/sec but thats nothing).
All machines are listed in the same workgroup (2003 server is not running a domain). I can share the files fine and communicate with the server, I can ping it by computer name so I assume GB-PVR can communicate to it by machine name as well.
..
Common wisdom would assume that I have the settings correct if the Recording Status on the client is pulling the right capture card and program that it's recording, it's obviously connecting to the server; that info isn't stored anywhere on the client.
So what is the deal with when I launch the PVRX2 and nothing works? I must be missing something here, maybe you guys who have it working have learned a few tricks of the trade? Some obscure setting on the server I must have wrong, or to check?
And again, Windows Firewall is disabled across the board. I double checked. Permissions are OK as well, I just set it to Everyone full control and set it all to pass down to child objects across the whole gbpvr directory. I've been using a mapped drive to watch MPEG recordings manually for quite some time and have been deleting old shows as well, I did a test in the gbpvr dir to make sure I could create a text file, modify it and delete it so permission should be good.
What am I missing here?