new user network media access

[mfacer]

hi there...

I have just installed linux mce (for about the 5th time!)  and am having trouble understanding network shares. On my previous installation, it found my PC share and network drives. I looked under the top level devices in the admin interface and the network drives were there - with the right usernames and passwords etc. but in Linux MCE i cannot access them.

All I want to do is to rip my DVDs and save them to the network drive!

I have one network card in the Core machine (After trying with two and failing!). It's IP is 192.168.0.2, the router is 0.1 and the network drive is 192.168.0.11

I have tried mounting the drive and that didnt work either.

Where am I going wrong? I feel like I've tried alsorts and had no luck!!

Thanks for ANY help!!!!!

[colinjones]

First - don't ever mount your drives manually. LMCE does this automatically - if it does NOT, then there is something else wrong that needs to be fixed first, mounting manually will almost certainly break your installation unless you know LMCE and autofs, etc intimately.

If you have 2 NICs available to you, go back and try again getting that working. Networking is almost certainly your problem, and going to single NIC will make that worse unless you know exactly what you are doing (or you are following the Wiki article on single NIC installations!)

LMCE expects to have its own "internal" network available to it that is controls and provide DHCP for. If it has this, then the network PlugNPlay will work much more reliably, as you initially found out.