Difficulty testing Telnet

[szlats]

I am trying to set up my PCH and I am following the mvpmcx2 Installation and Survival Guide. I can see my HTPC and play videos, music and pictures. I got to Part B of the guide, testing Telnet, but I am at a loss on how to open telnet.html from the PCH. Is there any hope for a novice at this?

[mvallevand]

Telnet.hml should show up when you select the rightmost icon on the PCH which is I guess a web page with an arrow.

http://www.popcornhour.com/userhome/onli..._a-100.jpg

Martin

[szlats]

Thanks,

When I do that I get a statement that the "request can not be processed". The PCH is hard wired to a LAN with a HTPC named hometheater. I have a sub-folder named MVPMC in that machines PUBLIC folder. I downloaded the sample scripts and saved the extracted files in the mvpmc folder. I edited telnet.html to replace EditMe with hometheater:public which is what I see on the Media Source page. telnet now reads:
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/[SMB]%20HOMETHEATER:Public:mvpmc/script.cgi">Telnetd</a>
<BR>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/[SMB]%20HOMETHEATER:Public:mvpmc/gbpvr.cgi">GB-PVR</a>.

I edited script.cgi with the IP address of the PCH, changed the username=root, and ,ro to ,rw (I'm using Vista 32 bit).

Any thoughts on where I went wrong?

Thanks

[mvallevand]

mvpmc should be the name of the share instead of public.

Martin

[szlats]

Just so that I'm clear should the url be smb: //hometheater/public/mvpmc in my case?

Thanks

[mvallevand]

No. You need to create a share called mvpmc the same way you created a share called public. If you really don't know how to do this you will have to modify the scripts to use public instead.

Martin

[szlats]

Sorry to be so thick but here is what I did:

I created a directory on the HTPC (named HOMETHEATER) C:\MVPMC and copied the scripts to it. I then made that folder a shared folder on the network. I browsed to the MVPMC folder on the PCH in Setup>Network Share page and came up with a url of smb://hometheater/mvpmc. I then edited telnet.html to read:

<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/[SMB]%20HOMETHEATER:mvpmc/script.cgi">Telnetd</a>
<BR>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/[SMB]%20HOMETHEATER:mvpmc/gbpvr.cgi">GB-PVR</a>

I then went to the media source page of PCH and when I selected hometheater:mvpmc I received a message "NO CONTENT FOUND ON SERVER". What went wrong this time?

[mvallevand]

That will be better once it work, now the guest share is the problem. Since you seem to be starting with screen shot I posted here http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...stcount=11

maybe follow on and see if that thread helps.

Martin

[szlats]

Martin thanks for your help. I've been away for a few daysand not dealing with this bug but it seems that the problem is in the way I set up the share as I can't see it from another computer. So I need to work on that next.

Steve