Update: Followed the Samba approach and had mixed success. Had errors with command... -d <device_id> was apparently named incorrectly... Process ran .. had Mount errors.... permission denied... finished ... dcerouter rebooted... and nothing...
While researching what needed to be in place of <device_id> ... out of the blue,,, "FOUND WIDOWS SHARE" comes up on the Media Director.... OK.... Never had a F**k up work before... go to manage drives on Media-director... Nothing... Quick reload router... BINGO.....
go back to manage drives, open windows share... Nada.... hmmm possibly a permissions issue... Oh yea.. Now a Windows Share shoes up in my A network as LINUXMCE but am not able to access it.
Update2: Read this poll
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5752.0 Firewall port settings.... opened port...
Wow .. this seems to have been a touchy subject...
Would have never believed that network subdividing would ever be so political.
I have 2 independent networks that need to share resources and services in the name of preventing redundancy and overall cost of implementation.
I see the need for a home automation system to not be loaded down with competing tasks.
At the same time I have a network dedicated for my business and personal that I do not need a home automation system in...
These 2 networks have successfully ran side by side for near a year now... and I am just upgrading all of my software for both networks..
Network A is already configured and operational after upgrade.
Network B is in beginning stages of configuration.
To not have to duplicate Data is a financial an logistic endeavor
I do agree that completely opening up your system by disabling your firewall is an inherently bad idea... Your firewall is a tool... Use it.
I have subnets all over my A network already and they all work fine...
Would you have an AP guest walking around in your system files when all they needed was INTERNET access?
Or maby you have a office worker that only needs a desktop terminal that is set up for nothing but what they need to see and use?? and the same network is in the same structure...
You see I have 3 independent ethernet systems.. My workers can plug into my LTSP port with their personal laptops and there system PXE boots into the server... I don't have to worry about administering multiple platforms... I don't have Software issues ... I don't have browsing and privilege issues... I don't have people playing solitaire or updating their facebook pages... I don't have to physically touch the devices that are being used as terminals... and I don't even need them to be in the same building (SSH VPN)... And I don't have to worry if my server is going to start adding client resources to my setup. All I have to do is add a new user and bam... it works! The MCE way of handling resources and clients is a more permanent approach and requires setting up each individual device manually. I can just edit and update my LTSP and all my clients behave exactly the same. I have at one time booted 7 laptops at the same time that have never been on my system before and it only took 3 minuets.
I have plenty of Media (some of it backed up from previous MCE (710) install) , and space already on my Network A server...
My Core on network B has only 120 gigs of space available... and I really don't want to have media for either network spread between each other.
Like Thom said in that post "Why are you people butchering your setups?!"
Well I don't want to butcher a perfectly good LTSP setup that works flawlessly for it's intended design and the two networks will need to share data that makes no sense to duplicate. ( 2.8 TB)
yea don't think so.
I am willing to try any suggestions as to how to implement within MCE design intentions...
I see no reason that anyone couldn't run the two networks beside each other and share data.
As far a worrying about windows shares.... I only run one windows box in order to debug compatibility issues with Microsoft Office and Quick books files... Don't really care other than I have a windows mobile device (HTC Touch Pro 2). But it has its own web server set up to access files so I know that works allready.
If you are running a business you will aways have to contend with Data produced from Microsoft Products!! YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE!!!
But I am a true Linux believer to the core!
Long Winded if you can't tell
But I hope someone can either contribute to or learn from this post!
Update3: Opening firewall and rebooting systems had no effect..
I believe the problem to be in the Core router setup because I cannot load the mce shares or Vice versa. I cannot bring
up the Web Admin page from the external network either... I have seen postings about this as well as wiki info so I will start with the Web Admin issue first and work backwards... hopefully this will revile the misconfiguration in the process.
Update4: Retried my original known error with command
/usr/pluto/bin/Configure_1837.sh -d <device-id> -i '<ip-address>' -m '<mac-address>
Even though I did not find any docs on the net about use of this command I deducted that since it was in the pluto file system then <device-id> must be the device-id given to the file server child device IE "32" ... well it worked to some degree... Now I still have a
failed w/return code = -13.... AKA Permission denied... I know... Password issue...
Wow.. system trying to access every file... Maybe I need to ^C this thing... but never liked interrupting a process that I am unfamiliar with.
So... I'm sure there is documents as to what Password should be... Just not found it yet.
But ... before this task even finished... "Still going"... I was able to access MCE from external network... Even Web Admin.
I don't think this had to do with the port forwarding options I set in Physical routers... As it would have taken an hour on its own.
I will change the routers back to original settings to see if that actually disrupts it or not... Better to know what actually makes the difference.
ended up rebooting everything
command got Core tty2 stuck in loop !!!
my bad..
Nice to have web admin on External Net..
I think I am Missing something obvious though.... Everything I have done so far and by trying to follow the MCE documents is different from How I go about setting up my other network... Maybe I am looking at MCE in the wrong context.
Well after reboot... media director went through the process of p&p auto detect and doubled up the listings in the manage drives section. but only has single entries in the core directory tree under web admin.... $h*t.... didn't mean for that to happen... Can Access files from Network A to LMCE but not vise versa... MCE sees shares but cannot access... (permission denied.) (Cannot get share list)
Ok... How do I repair my listings in the manage drives settings so i can try this routine again?
