Could you use the Disk ID Field since each one has a uniqe ID number and disk title from dvd profiler ?

Royw: Question are you gonna handle box sets in version 2 and is there a workaround now in version 1 that can be applied ?

   Yep media is dropped and i get the cif error messages when i dmesg on the core, shares are being dropped i have to click disk online  and quick reload to see media at mds.  Clean core NO CHANGES WHERE MADE just connected the internal lan.  Now where do i go from here ?

Ok well after redoing a clean install of Quick DVD 710 rc2 to the core and connecting it directly to one of my storage boxes, the storage box was detected with no problem, The only difference was that i did not manually assign the ip address for the nic on the storage box and set it to auto obtain instead.  Now when i sync with media sync it does find media and still reports the disks as being of line and the check box under devices still is not check for disk online !!!!!!  But the media is still seen and can be played, gonna connect all mds and do a few reboot to see if the media gets dropped...

I did change the range of my dhcp as not to include the ipaddress that i had assigned to the storage boxes any how almost done with a whole new and clean setup... report back soon

Royw:  Having acouple of issue with the Lmce_manager database when i try to rake after updating my collection and copying over a new xml etc....  i get errors in the rake,  i will post but im redoing my core cuz of some other issue but what i had to do as a work around was to blowout the data base with reset and build again and all was well just a note,  still waiting on version 2 cant wait.  Wish you could get chapter info some how, that would be great anywho keep up the good work man

Well just for Sh-ts and giggles i decided that im gonna redo my core and set my storage boxes to auto on the nics, do i feel if this is gonna fix my problem, no but to rule out any config issues im gonna do that, also gonna disable the second nics in the storage boxes as so the only network that its connected to is the lmce.  Ill post back when im done long story short i will have 2 xp machines with sharing enabled connected via gigabit to the internal of the core with mds on the internal all set to auto config on nics,    Oh and just so i understand correctly when the file server is detected and i go under devices and look at the shares the disk online box should be checked, thats gonna be the first thing i look for !!!!! here goes

on the internal side of the core it is running dhcp which the mds get there address from and any orbiters but the storage boxes have the ip address assigned by me to 192.168.80.2 and 192.168.80.3 for the second box this should not be a problem just because dhcp is running dosnt mean you cant hard code an ip address to a computer,  After a lease is up on an ip address sometimes a new address can be assigned this is eliminated by me manualy setting the ip

The xp machines have 2 nics for a reason,  first the gigabit network which is the lmce network cannot be seen or touched by any other wireless or wired pc on the 192.168.1.X network.  So theres no need to worry about if the core is translating to clients over the network etc... or some one browsing and deleting files from the core. This allows the core to controll and streams along a dedicated backbone to the house.  The second nic gives me access to the storage boxes over the 192.168.1.X which is where all the everyday computers reside on but never to the 192.168.80.X lmce network allowing me to dump to the storage boxes from any wireless or wired pc on that network which has nothing to do with the lmce network.  Long story short if my 192.168.1.X network goes down the 192.168.80.X network is not effected and still controlls the house, if my core goes down this doesnt effect all the every day computers in the house, I know what i am doing when it comes to networks etc... Its what i do for a living and yes i did try the cable and that is not the issue it still drops and i still get the 

CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -11


Thanks again

My Lmce is a dedicated core not hybrid and uses
Intel Pentium 4 processor (800MHz FSB)
Hyper-Threading enabled
2GB DDRII 400
1 x 64-bit 133MHz Full-height / half length PCI-X Slot
2x Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit LAN Controllers
Support for IPMI 2.0
One 3.5" IDE 120 Gig drive
1 U case
on the core 1 nic is internal and the other external, the internal is connected to an 8 port D-link gigabit switch and the external is connected to wireless router


Storage box 1 has 2 nics running xp pro, gigabit nic connects to the D-link with a hard coded ip address of 192.168.80.2 and the second 10/100 nic connects to the wireless router hard wired with an ip address of 192.168.1.102 System has 12 500 gig sata drives on a 3ware card with each drive having a windows share like "MOVIES_A-B" with no spaces etc...

Storage box 2 has same setup but gigabit nic has ip address of 192.168.80.3 and the 10/100 nic is 192.168.1.103 also with windows share but sharing out Music

so there is 2 seperate collision domains because of the two different networks and all my MDs connect only to the D-link gigabit switch, This setup allows my regular computers and my wireless laptops to access the storage boxes over the 192.168.1.X network and allows me to dump iso to the drives, while the lmce core has full access to the storage boxes also but over the gigabit network within the 192.168.80.X

Hope this helps but i dont see this being any issue with the errors under dmesg, gonna check on the BCM5721 Gigabit LAN Controllers thats built into the core.  thanks in advance
   

Thanks for the fast responce....  Im using RC2 and i tryed changing from cifs to smbfs and that still didnt help i saw this when i dmesg

[27014.528802]  CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -5
[27014.657321]  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5
[27018.620834] smb_add_request: request [e9f5af00, mid=6] timed out!
[27042.969475] smb_add_request: request [d355df00, mid=7] timed out!
[27042.969489] smb_lookup: find //.check_mounted failed, error=-5

not sure where to go from here ?

ok so i changed back to cifs and now the dmesg says
[  373.312632]  CIFS VFS: Error 0xffffffed on cifs_get_inode_info in lookup of \.check_mounted
and loops it ?

I commend you on your work, Bloody thing rocs 
oh windows user for dvdprofiler is documents\dvd profiler\databases\default\images <--- Vista that is

I end up with an error unkown database 'lmce_manager_developent'  when i start to rake the system
 


Just solved my problem with "rake db:reset" to create a new database 

Can any1 help me with this problem....  I cant be the only one having issues like this ..........

I have 2 xp computers that i use on the network that i have enabled sharing.  I use these computers for all my .ISO etc and each share uses the pluto structure, now here is the problem the drives seem to drop all the time from the linuxmce system.  I have enable the ping and the disk online check box but the disk online check box dosnt hold after a system reboot etc...  I can see the drives and files if i recheck disk online and do a quick reload then all my movies are back but the system reverts back after awhile.  There are no spaces in my share names, Firewall is disabled on both xp boxes, power managment is disabled on both nics in each of the system, even bought a new gigabit switch so that rules out the physical layer, i am convinced that its a bug  <--- hope not and just something that im doing wrong.  Any help would be apprciated......

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