Hi James. You could do the file transfer the other way? Create a folder in the Linux machine /home/username ... call it "shared" for want of a better name. Right click on it using Konqueror or nautilus... change the properties to "Read-Write" for owner...group... and others. Now right click again and enable sharing on the folder. It might want to install a program called "samba" if it isn't already installed.
Now go to the winxp machine... and browse the network (my network places) on explorer (it will probably show up on a network group called workgroup)... find your shared folder... right click on it and "map" the drive on winxp. Give it a Drive letter that isn't going to clash with anything else on that machine... eg usb stick cdrom drives etc. It will now show up as an extra drive in my computer. So now just save the files on whatever drive letter you created. NB If the map option doesn't show up in "My Network Places" ...click on the "Tools" menu along the top...and then "Map Network Drive"... you might have to browse the network. And again give it a drive letter that isn't going to clash with anything else. Many thanks Geoff Barkman On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:39 PM, James Laurence <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've largely run out of ideas on this one, so thought I'd see if anyone out > there can point me in the right direction. > > My Rivendell system is set up to occasionally take mp3 input from a Windows > PC, using the 'Download' feature of RDCatch. > > Up until now the Windows PC has been running Win95 (yes!), but the PC is > finally on its last legs and I'm intending to change it over to one running > WinXP. > > For years the download has been running perfectly using the URL > "smb://host/path/filename" protocol. > > However I am not able to get exactly the same thing running when > sourcing the same mp3 file from a *WindowsXP* machine. The download starts > (and is logged as such in the RDCatch log) but then drops out after about > 2secs, without finishing. > > In Konqueror I am able to see the file I want (across the network, using > smb://host/path/filename in the address-window) and can import it manually > if I wish, or move it around wherever I want. So I'm satisfied the > networking aspect is all correct. Plus I've given the Windows PC > more-or-less unlimited security clearance in the meantime, so that there are > no issues. > > I've even called the WinXP machine exactly the same name and IP address as > the old one, but to no avail. > > It would seem that, although Linux/SuSe is able to access/view/move the file > okay, *Rivendell* itself cannot. > > So my question is: > > Does anybody know why RDCatch-Download would work happily on a Win95 (or any > pre-NT) machine, but not on a WinXP or later PC? Is something no longer > supported by Rivendell, or similar? Or is there a configuration-file > somewhere I should be updating? > > It looks like I will have to devise a quite different/workaround solution, > but before I do that I thought I'd put this problem out there in case > someone has a very simple/obvious answer they can offer. > > As always, any/all help/ideas/suggestions much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > James L. > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
