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Users / PXE Not Working -- Other Minor Issues
« on: September 03, 2010, 10:03:13 am »
Looking for a whole house DVR setup has led me to this package, which appears to have the brawn to do just about everything I need to have done for house automation and DVR with a few minor wrinkles. I've done some forum searches and tried to hack my way through a few configuration files to no avail, so I'm hoping I can get some more in depth information. Tomorrow I will be attempting a full reinstall from DVD to see if that magically fixes everything.
My setup:
Dual Opteron Core/Hybrid attached to living room TV
Intel Mini-ITX diskless system for remote testing
Windows XP Machine with Shares for Movies/Music (will migrate to a file server eventually)
ISP Provided Modem/Router
Because the file server is another roommates computer, it won't be up 100% of the time, but usually is. Also because of this I am flattening the two networks, using the Core/Hybrid as the DHCP server (authoritive is a wonderful option) and the Modem/Router as the gateway. There doesn't seem to be an option for this in the advanced menu, but if everything else is set through it, the startup scripts do not appear to modify the gateway option in dhcpd.conf. My network is set up 192.168.1.0 with 100-150 reserved for MCE devices and 150-244 open to anything. Eth0 is disconnected, and I just use Eth1 with the firewall off (its behind the hardware firewall of the router)
I have done /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_BuildDefaultImage.sh to set up the initial image, and it has done a setup for the MD specifically, but after wards does little but timing out. I've tried the two scripts I've found on the forums (one is the diskless initial setup and the other a restart for the MD function of the Hybrid/Core) and neither solution has worked.
As a big believer in not using the microsoft reinstall way (despite trying this tomorrow) does anyone have any words of wisdom or things to try? Should I worry that the intel mini-itx board has a wonky chipset? It doesn't appear to be an issue with network wiring or issues, even though I've had to tweak on the Dhcpd a bit. I'd really like to get this working.
Other issue I've been having is the mounting of the windows shared directory for media. I've gotten a manual mount point (located in public/data/movies/[hard drive]/rem-movies) to show up once or twice, but it will randomly unmount itself or the MD can't 'see' the files in the folder. After trying to add it as a Device, the media finder can see it from the admin panel, but the MD cannot. I'm hoping this too will get solved with a reinstall, but has anyone faced similar with non-dedicated media servers?
My setup:
Dual Opteron Core/Hybrid attached to living room TV
Intel Mini-ITX diskless system for remote testing
Windows XP Machine with Shares for Movies/Music (will migrate to a file server eventually)
ISP Provided Modem/Router
Because the file server is another roommates computer, it won't be up 100% of the time, but usually is. Also because of this I am flattening the two networks, using the Core/Hybrid as the DHCP server (authoritive is a wonderful option) and the Modem/Router as the gateway. There doesn't seem to be an option for this in the advanced menu, but if everything else is set through it, the startup scripts do not appear to modify the gateway option in dhcpd.conf. My network is set up 192.168.1.0 with 100-150 reserved for MCE devices and 150-244 open to anything. Eth0 is disconnected, and I just use Eth1 with the firewall off (its behind the hardware firewall of the router)
I have done /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_BuildDefaultImage.sh to set up the initial image, and it has done a setup for the MD specifically, but after wards does little but timing out. I've tried the two scripts I've found on the forums (one is the diskless initial setup and the other a restart for the MD function of the Hybrid/Core) and neither solution has worked.
As a big believer in not using the microsoft reinstall way (despite trying this tomorrow) does anyone have any words of wisdom or things to try? Should I worry that the intel mini-itx board has a wonky chipset? It doesn't appear to be an issue with network wiring or issues, even though I've had to tweak on the Dhcpd a bit. I'd really like to get this working.
Other issue I've been having is the mounting of the windows shared directory for media. I've gotten a manual mount point (located in public/data/movies/[hard drive]/rem-movies) to show up once or twice, but it will randomly unmount itself or the MD can't 'see' the files in the folder. After trying to add it as a Device, the media finder can see it from the admin panel, but the MD cannot. I'm hoping this too will get solved with a reinstall, but has anyone faced similar with non-dedicated media servers?