how to ?? Run a scan with drives connected to PCH

[JDGJr]

I want to keep my USB HDs connected to my PCH and run the YAMJ scan script and have the files on the internal and external HDs remain on the index.

I'm running the script on Windows XP PRO and can't figure out how to install and configure either NFS or SMB and get it to work.

Repeat - i don't want the PCH to access files on my computer, i want the scanning process running on the PC to see the drives in/attached to the PCH.

Can anyone point me to threads that can help?

tia,
john

[excal]

i think if you map the drives as networks drives you'll be able to see them for use in the windows script

[earlybath]

1. Connect your Popcorn Hour to your network. Presumably by wiring it to your router (though you could do this wireless or via a PC).
2. Add the popcorn hour to your workgroup. On your PC 'Right-click on My Computer, select Properties and then the Computer Name tab to see what your workgroup is currently set to. On the PCH put the workgroup name into your network settings.
3. You should now be able to find the PCH and its drives in your network neighbourhood.
4. Since you've got more than one drive on the PCH I guess your best bet is to set up a mapped drive for each on your PC. Right-click on My Computer and select Map Network Drive. Type in \\ip address of pch\share (I think) the user id is nmt and the password is 1234. I don't know what the external drives are shared as, hopefully you might be able to browse to them.
5. Set up YAMJ to read from your PCH drives. Since you have more than one source drive then you'll need to edit the Libraries.xml file. You'll need to work out where your PC finds the movies, put that in the "file" bit, and where the PCH finds the files locally, put that in the "nmtpath" bit (note the PCH is extremely case sensitive in this area). do that once for each mapped drive.

Then when you run YAMJ you do...

moviejukebox.bat Libraries.xml -o jukeboxRoot

One recommendation is to set it to write the jukebox output to the PC i.e. use a c:\jukebox and then copy that down to the PCH once it's finished indexing. It runs extremely slowly if you index direct onto the PCH

[JDGJr]

(11-11-2008 09:48 PM)earlybath Wrote:  3. You should now be able to find the PCH and its drives in your network neighbourhood.

BTW: i've changed to my Vista machine so i can configure it more.

I'm stuck on step 3. Do i need to do anything on the PCH to be able to see HARD_DRIVE from the computer?

thanks for the detailed resonse!

[Omertron]

This bit assumes that you can open a explorer window and type in "\\popcorn\" (or whatever your PCH name is in network settings) and you get a couple of icons labeled: "share", "USB_DRIVE_A-1" or "USB_DRIVE_B-1".

Then read these two wiki entries
http://code.google.com/p/moviejukebox/wi...aryXMLInfo
http://code.google.com/p/moviejukebox/wiki/NMTRootPaths

and you should end up with a library file that looks something like this:

Code:

<libraries>
  <library>
      <path>\\POPCORN\share\Video\</path>
      <nmtpath>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/Video/</nmtpath>
  </library>

  <library>
      <path>\\POPCORN\USB_DRIVE_A-1\</path>
      <nmtpath>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/USB_DRIVE_A-1/TV/</nmtpath>
  </library>
</libraries>

And I'll add this as it catches everyone out at some point: nmtpath is CASE SENSITIVE