I am trying to access MythTV from my Vista machine. The purpose is to drag/drop some files back & forth between the two machines. I had this working a week ago, between my old XP machine and my Mythbox. I went to the following page and followed the steps.

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=UsingSambaHowTo



This info explained how to turn on Samba, etc. MythTV showed up as a network location in my "network neighborhood" and it worked fine. However, in my new Vista PC's network neighborhood, MythTV shows up as "MythTV AV Media Server". I can not double-click this location to access the Mythbox directory. So, it seems going to Vista will require a new technique.

Any ideas on networking Vista & my Mythbox?

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R5.5; PVR-250; FX5200; Dell 4300 with Intel Pentium 4 (1.5 GHz);
BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD

What you are seeing is probably MythTV's upnp server. Vista probably just hasn't discovered it yet.

Try using the run command in Vista to open the network location directly.

ie \\192.168.0.100 (whatever IP is of KnoppMyth box)

It works! Thank you so much.

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BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD

Hmm. This used to work. However after the R5F27 upgrade, the above recommendation doesn't work. I'm aware of tjc's comment:



I realize I can no longer use


However, I did expect this to work:

What should I try next?

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BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD

If you have samba up and running on your mythbox, I don't see why you can't connect via \\ipaddy\ from your windows box... I don't/won't use vista so I can't help that much. Does it have some firewall blocking connections perhaps? Can you ping the mythbox from your vista machine?

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In this current scenario, I'm trying to see the Mythbox from the Vista PC. However, I also use my laptop & Putty to get a remote X-window going. So, if I can access the Mythbox from the laptop PC, I assume Samba is working correctly.

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BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD

ok... if you can connect to it via ssh from another PC, your vista machine is the cause of your problem. Is there a firewall running or some moronic built-in "security" feature blocking the traffic I wonder....

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Using "ifconfig", I confirmed the IP of the Mythbox. When I ping the Mythbox from the Vista PC, it succeeded with 4/4 packets returned OK. (My earlier comment about a failed ping was incorrect)

There could be some "security" feature blocking the access, however this setup worked fine before the R5F27 upgrade. I have done nothing to Vista to change any network/security setting.

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BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD

I can't explain it.

So you CAN ping the mythtvbox from Vista... can you connect to it via ssh or can you connect to mythweb?

Are you sure you're typing the IP address of the mythtv box correctly in your vista box?

\\192.168.1.12\myth for example

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Samba != SSH

Is Samba running on your KM system? ps -ef | grep mbd. AFAIK Samba is not up and running out of the box, you need to configure it to start at bootup with update-rc.d samba defaults

Me != Smart

You were right. I needed to re-run the "update-rc.d samba defaults" code, after my R5F27 upgrade. Silly mistake.

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BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD

My new laptop has media center. I was able to add to my library the myth box's pretty folder. It presented a table of icons to launch the MPG files, but I can not view the videos. I do get sound, but no video. Some mpg that I ran autodetect on were viewable.

What do I need to get vista's media center to play my myth media.

Thanks in advanced.

This problem is very difficult to solve. Windows Media Player's mpeg codec has an inability to properly read files created by Hauppauge hardware MPEG tuner cards. Nobody's exactly figured out why the problem occurs (to my knowledge). One solution is to install an alternate mpeg codec, but figuring out how to make Vista use that codec over the default one has been tricky. I haven't figured it out.

Although this doesn't solve your problem, I would recommend using MythTVPlayer for viewing in Vista. It even allows watching live tv.

Good luck. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

Glad to hear it's working for you... be sure you check out this samba speedup thread and verify your samba is running @ it's max xfer rate.

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