Hmmm - then try and map a network drive to:
//foxsat-hdr/media

If that does not work then replace foxsat-hdr with the HDR's IP address.

Presume you mean \\fox... rather than //fox...
Tried both (incl the IP address) and no joy

yes I did mean \\foxsat-hdr\media or \\ip address\media.
Have you checked that samba is installed and running? (web-if service management),

It would be very strange if it is running and the mapping a network drive to the ip address does not work.

"no joy" is not very specific - please explain what the result / difficulty was.

Very strange it may be but that is exactly what seems to be happening - samba working OK according to the web-if service management page (I have tried restarting it from this point) but not mappable from Windows Explorer or visible when I do a network scan (although it is visible as a media player).

I am using 200Mbps Powerline adapters - I don't think these are the problem as FTP seems to connect OK and other packages (channel guide, media list etc) work fine.

Oh and, by the way, many thanks again for your time and effort in trying to help me out

OK - on your PC run cmd.exe and post the results of each of the following

net view
ping foxsat-hdr
ping ipaddress

Lastly try again with mapping the ip address - Don't search for it just choose a drive and enter \\ipaddress\media.

Will do - when I get home tonight...

sorry to hijack this post but......

... I have just downloaded the raydon package.
i get the part about upgrading the box and getting to the web interface.
But reading the readme.txt is says there are various programs that can be downloaded

Tinyftp

VSFTP

Telnet

Dropbear

Twonkymedia

Mediatomb

Samba

what do these programs do?
Are they all required?

all i want to do ( at the moment) is copy sd files from my humax to my laptop and enable watching of programs from my laptop over the network.
which is the best (easiest) option to do this

Thanks

These programs can be installed from the web interface after you have flashed the firmware. See the ReadMe.txt (part of what you downloaded) for more details.

No they are not all required - Start with samba (match the windows workgroup to samba's in the web interface settings page). possibly twonky might also suit depending on what elase you have in your network.

REPASSAC

thanks for that.
i will give that a go
the only thing i have on the network is 1 hard wired pc with a shared drive and 3 wireless laptops

Try turning any firewall you have off completely. I know other aspects of networking are working OK, but sometimes you can get weird effects, with some port numbers being blocked and others not. It's easy to do and worth a try.

Today I tried to load the bundle

I downloaded the media and file server bundle.
I formatted a usb pen drive as FAT 32 in acronis disc director

I then followed the readme.txt and the dummies guide (for version 3)

This is exactly what i did
put the usb in the front ( box switched on)
switched box off (from the front)
held the standby button on ( on the box not the remote)
the Humax flash screen cam up on the tv and the led display said boot
Held the standby button
after a few seconds the screen flicked on BBC2 for a second then switched off

variations i have tried

putting the usb in whilst switched off
powering down from the back

2 different usb sticks

I am at a bit of a loss asto what i am doing wrong so if anyone hhas any ideas i would be most grateful

Thanks

What size USB memory are you using?

There are known problems with USB memory larger than 1GB. I use a 512MB.

I have 4 different sticks all 4GB, all work fine with both a HDR Foxsat and a HD FOX T2.

Does the hdr acknowledge the stick if inserted when the box is booted. After this and pressing media is there a usb1 icon at the top of the media list ? If not try a different stick.

Found one that works, reformat from windows (right click in Explorer). Copy the .hdf to the pen. Check the filename carefully (make sure it's not xxxx.hdf.hdf, windows suppresses file extensions unless you turn off the feature)

Graham
the file on the stick is named
FOXSAT-HDR_upgrade.hdf

all 3 sticks are seen in the medial list

reformatted again and away we go!!!!

loaded samba and all is brilliant

just one thing, when you click on the video file to watch from the laptop is appears to download is this correct?

What do you click on - a samba share or a twonky or mediatomb link?

it was when i was in the web browser I think ( but be buggered if i know how)
But using samba i can access it really quickly so its all good

what a fantastic piece of software

thanks to everyone for their help

OK - 24 hours later than hoped I got a chance to do this

Net view - just hung after typing this in

Ping results:

Pinging foxsat-hdr [192.168.2.9] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.2.9: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.9: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.9: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.9: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.2.9:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 5ms, Maximum = 13ms, Average = 7ms


Pinging 192.168.2.9 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.2.9: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.9: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.9: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.9: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.2.9:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 5ms, Maximum = 8ms, Average = 6ms

Tried mapping drive again - came up with "Attempting to connect..." and just hung with this displayed (5 mins so far)

Windows 7..
Probably due to MS dumbing down the interface and "hiding" what's really happening.

I have several W7 boxes here, but my main machine refuses to let me add a network place for the Hummy.
FTP - fine
Telnet Fine
Ping - fine
Web interface fine.

All the other boxes immediately identified the Hummy, even though it wasn't in the same workgroup.
Checked / crosschecked all the network options - no differences in the other boxes.

Spent hours on it.

Given up now as FTP will do the job (OK it downloads the files rather than seeing them as "local").

So my message it it may not be you - probably some hidden parameter lost in the depths of Mr. Gates labyrinthine software.

Interesting that it's not just me but I can't help feel that there must be a reliable solution somewhere!

Many thanks for your help

You problem is very odd - I am especially puzzled by your lack of response to a windows net view command. I think this implies a network connectivity problem - what happens if you just leave the command running (it must time out some time)

Here's my result:

C:\Users\cmdadmin>net view
System error 53 has occurred.

The network path was not found.

C:\Users\cmdadmin>

The only thought that remains is security / firewall software on the PC.

Does the command work with both HDR's off?

I only have the one HDR, Repassac.
The command works fine when it's off.

Can't see anything obvious with Firewall (std Windows) or security (MS Security Essentials) settings

Running out of idea's now - can you try removing and re-installing samba. (Check the workgroup settings after th reinstall). This is a longshot but you never know - It could be a download problem.

Firmware release 4.0.6 now available.
Webif 2.5 now available.

see another place.for details.