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Installation issues / LinuxMCE network configuration?

« on: October 22, 2008, 08:00:43 am »

I currently have my first nic on my LMCE box plugged directly into my DSL modem as per the network instructions that I was reading on how to set this up. My first question is, isn't this an unsafe practice? I was under the impression that you should always have a router or some sort of firewall directly after the modem. .

My other question is, my second nic is plugged into the internet port on the back of my netgear router and the rest of the computers on my network are plugged into the ports 1 and 2. So my question is, is this correct or should the second nic on my LMCE be plugged into port 3?

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Installation issues / Re: Should I change the workgroup name on LinuxMCE?

« on: October 21, 2008, 11:11:40 pm »

I already know this is going to sounds like a stupid question but.......how do I change my other two computers to draw a dhcp address from the internal address? They are both set to dhcp and they pull a 192.168.1.* Now the LMCE box is also plugged into the same router so how do I just figured that they would all pull the IP scheme. Changing them to the internal network, is that a router setting? Just to clarify all computers plugged into the same router and all computers are pulling dhcp addresses.

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Installation issues / Re: Should I change the workgroup name on LinuxMCE?

« on: October 21, 2008, 12:30:26 pm »

I have one windows PC and one SUSE box both with IP's of 192.168.1.*

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Installation issues / Is Nvidia DualTV Dual Tuner card supported in LinuxMCE?

« on: October 21, 2008, 11:22:48 am »

I have already built a HTPC with the XP media center and I thought it was great.........until I saw the LinuxMCE OS in action. Anyhow I would like to use as many parts from my current HTPC as I can. I cant find any info though with regards to the Nvidia DualTV MCE card, which was all the rage when I bought it. I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can find a list of supported hardware? Secondly does anyone happen to know if my card is supported off the top of their heads? Thirdly while I am on the subject. How about the MSI K8N Neo4 Mother Board? Is that LinuxMCE compatible? Thanks in advance

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Installation issues / Re: Should I change the workgroup name on LinuxMCE?

« on: October 21, 2008, 11:06:06 am »

DHCP is on. The network section indicates this:

XTERNAL_IFACE     eth0
EXTERNAL_MAC    00:13:D3:C8:DF:31
EXTERNAL_IP    192.168.1.138
EXTERNAL_NETMASK    255.255.255.0
EXTERNAL_DHCP    1
INTERNAL_IFACE    eth1
INTERNAL_MAC    00:13:D3:C8:DF:32
INTERNAL_IP    192.168.80.1
INTERNAL_NETMASK    255.255.255.0
GATEWAY    192.168.1.1
DNS1    192.168.1.1
DNS2    192.168.1.1

My MCE box has dual on board nics (not sure if that helps)

What i dont understand is the whole external/interface and plugging it in one as opposed to the other. Could you explain in further detail?
I am scouring the net as I write this looking for answers this forum came about as one of my Google searches

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Installation issues / Re: Should I change the workgroup name on LinuxMCE?

« on: October 21, 2008, 10:30:13 am »

So why doesnt my MCE see my other computers? I have media on my other computers that MCE hasnt indicated that it has found. They are all plugged into the same Linksys router. Any ideas what I should be looking at to fix this issue? Thanks again

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Installation issues / Should I change the workgroup name on LinuxMCE?

« on: October 21, 2008, 10:09:24 am »

I'm kind of confused because I was under the impression that to share files across a network all computers needed to be on the same workgroup. The one is MCE is different from my home network. I also thought that MCE would auto configure itself to access my network and all my shared files on the other computers. So either way if I am supposed to change the workgroup name or not how do I then setup MCE to be able to access my network? Thanks in advance for any help.