index not linking from hdd to nas

[rcrh]

I generate a number of jukeboxes using YAMJ and decided that I'd build a custome index.htm to point to them. That way the first thing I see when I start the pch will alway stay the same and only the jukeboxes will get rebuilt each night.

But, I seem to have a problem with my shares and the syntax needed to point to files back on my server (Windows Home Server).

Here is my set up and some sample code from my index.htm

shares:
TV
Movies
Music
Photos

PHP Code:

<td valign="top">
            <center>
              <a href="file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/TV/Jukebox/new/index.htm" id="thumbimage">
                <img src="resources/plasma-tv-256x256.png"/>
              </a>
            </center>
        <center>
               <font color="#FFFFFF" size="6" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">New TV</font> 
        </center>
        <center>        <div class="navigationline"></div>
          </td> 


PHP Code:

<td valign="top">
            <center>
              <a href="file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/Movies/Jukebox/New/index.htm" id="thumbimage">
                <img src="resources/Movie Jukebox.png"/>
              </a>
            </center>
        <center>
               <font color="#FFFFFF" size="6" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">New Movies</font> 
        </center>
        <center>        <div class="navigationline"></div>
          </td> 


Finally, I've also tried putting in code to go out to the file browser so that if something is wrong with YAMJ I can still play files.

PHP Code:

<td valign="top">
            <center>
              <a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/Movies\New/?filter=3">
                <img src="resources/icon_playlist_[80%].png" onfocussrc="resources/icon_playlist_on_[80%].png"/>              
          </a>
            </center>
        <center>
               <font color="#FFFFFF" size="6" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Movies</font> 
        </center>
          </td> 


All three of these examples fail with an error saying:

REQUEST CAN NOT BE PROCESSED.

I've tried all kinds of combinations of syntax and I just can't seem to get this to work.

Any help out there?

Thanks in advance.
Richard.

[rcrh]

A Bit more info on this. I found Kdoske's index customizer and tried building an index with it and none of the likes will work.

I've also reboot my pch, cleared the cash, and completely unplugged it.

Any ideas?

[rcrh]

And still more on this:

it appears to be something with mounting the shares.

If I go directly to one of the shares and then come back to the local drive & run my index.htm I can get one of shared indexes to load. But, the others fail. I then manual navigate to another share; and then back to the local drive the first share will fail but the second one will work.

I guess I have to start reading about how to mount shares.

[rcrh]

And then I found threads about mono.wrapper.

But, after reading through most of the 19 pages I determined that it will only work if the entire jukebox is on the local harddrive.

That's great if you're jukebox is pretty static, but what if it changes frequently?

I like to rebuild my jukebox often and therefore keep it all on the server where the data files are.

So, I'm back to asking,
Anybody got any ideas?

thanks in advance.

[journey4712]

if your jukebox changes frequently i would suggest a script in which your server transfers the jukebox to the NMT after finishing the build every night. the script just nuke the folder over samba, and then copy over the newly built jukebox automatically. Some ftp clients can be automated to mirror a directory structure over to the popcorn. If the nmt is not turned on when the builds occur then i'm not sure what you could do. Also not sure which platform your server is but linux or macos should be fairly easy to set this up, windows a little harder but still possible.

journey4712

[rcrh]

Thanks Journey, I'm going to look into this

I guess the first thing I need to confirm is that the jukebox doesn't have to be built differently on the assumption that it will be run from the HDD.

I'll also have to look at the size of the thing. I only have a 5gig CF card in there.

[journey4712]

The jukebox shouldnt need any modifications, the same jukebox you load over the network can load via nmt.

journey4712

[rcrh]

(08-10-2009 10:31 PM)journey4712 Wrote:  The jukebox shouldnt need any modifications, the same jukebox you load over the network can load via nmt.

journey4712

That's what I'm seeing. I'm just surprised that it doesn't load faster. I guess all of the delay is from the browser and the weak processor in the pch.

hmm?