Adding Media box/NAS to network

[Andeh13]

Hi Guys, I recently bought one of these (link below) and it is brilliant. The only problem is I am struggling to get it to connect to the network so I can use it as a NAS. I know very little about networks so was hopign someone could point me in the right direction to setting it up?

(instructions didnt arrive with it)

Cheers guys

edit: with the link this time!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3207455542...#ht_1155wt_905

[dave87]

Missing the link? (or I can't see it at least?)

[Andeh13]

I Should add I post this here assuming NAS' are fairly generic things to connect & share to a network? I am on Windows 7 as well!

edit; there isn't a web page interface for it AFAIK.

[Jay]

Does your router have DHCP enabled?

[Larkspeed]

Reading the description I see this:

Support Samba NAS and Bittorent Client (CD Installation Required)

and from another site:

* BitTorrent and Samba application installation from CD required

That implies that NAS needs to be installed so will not work until it is.

I find it really strange for it to not have a web interface.

We have two of these type of things in this house, A popcorn hour A-110 in the bedroom and an AC Ryan PlayOn! HD in the living room.

both of them it was just a matter of turning on the nas feature and plugging them into the network, both also have web interfaces.

take a look at this:

http://www.traxdata.com/download/3/MMS_Manual-EN.zip

[Andeh13]

I have checked my Virgin hub box and it has UNPN enabled, and it is enabled on the box but I still cant find it when I go to the 'network' area of my laptop.

The samba sever, i thought, was only for me sending stuff from my laptop to the Media Box to play?

Instead, all I want is to access the Media box from my laptop to play stuff when I am upstairs in bed.

The manual wasn't too clear to me, from what i can gather it should all be set up automatically, using the whole UNPN feature?

[Larkspeed]

The samba sever, i thought, was only for me sending stuff from my laptop to the Media Box to play?

No because what you describe there is a media server

Samba is the linux network protocol

You need Samba installed and enabled or you will get no network sharing as Samba is the network sharing module.

[directhex]

No because what you describe there is a media server

Samba is the linux network protocol

You need Samba installed and enabled or you will get no network sharing as Samba is the network sharing module.

Samba is a Linux implementation of the Windows file sharing protocol SMB (now CIFS).

[directhex]

I have checked my Virgin hub box and it has UNPN enabled, and it is enabled on the box but I still cant find it when I go to the 'network' area of my laptop.

The samba sever, i thought, was only for me sending stuff from my laptop to the Media Box to play?

Instead, all I want is to access the Media box from my laptop to play stuff when I am upstairs in bed.

The manual wasn't too clear to me, from what i can gather it should all be set up automatically, using the whole UNPN feature?

UPnP is a protocol which, in this instance, covers a UPnP device being able to stream media from a UPnP server. i.e. setting up your PC as a server with all the files you want on it, and being able to view them on the media machine. Or, if this thing can act as a UPnP server, then the files can be stored on it then viewed on other UPnP clients on the network (like XBMC or specifici hardware). You CANNOT upload a file via UPnP - just stream down.

If you want to copy files on and off, you use CIFS, which covers the built-in Windows file & folder sharing.

[Andeh13]

I am really struggling to install Samba. I have put it on a memory stick, gone through the setup to install it but it is coming up with 'HDD no supported'. Tried different formats of the memory stick, tried having it on the internal HDD and yet nothing gets it to be installed!

[Andeh13]

Turns out if you read the instructions and format the HDD correctly...it works!

I have it streaming up down and center now, my only issue is copying and pasting off it (to get a film onto my laptop for example) is limited to a max of 2.5mb/s it seems, is there any way to improve on this?

Cheers guys

[Larkspeed]

Turns out if you read the instructions and format the HDD correctly...it works!

I have it streaming up down and center now, my only issue is copying and pasting off it (to get a film onto my laptop for example) is limited to a max of 2.5mb/s it seems, is there any way to improve on this?

Cheers guys

If you use FTP to transfer files to it assuming it supports FTP then it should go about twice that fast otherwise it's a common limitation even my popcorn hour and ac ryan both suffer from