Comments on: Review: HP MediaSmart Server EX487

By: Otto A

Otto A — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:32:53 +0000

Q: Any way to install or add Windows Media Center/Windows Media Player?

Live video stream can broadcast to Tome TV over PS or XBox

Thanks

By: Alex Kuretz

Alex Kuretz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:01:59 +0000

I do not believe it supports iSCSI but I’m not an expert on that so am not certain. You can map it’s shares as shared drives on your client PC.

By: Thomas Y Hansen

Thomas Y Hansen — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:44:55 +0000

Hi and thank you.

Does it suport iSCSI? Can i map it as an exsternal disk….? And use it as an main HD for all my computers…?

Thank you

By: Alex Kuretz

Alex Kuretz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:30:21 +0000

Hi Chris, thanks for posting in the forums, we’ll get you sorted out there.

Alex

By: chrisweir

chrisweir — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:01:25 +0000

Hello all,
I am hoping you can help me. I have just completed the HPMSS 2.5 upgrade for the second time, long story. I am running WHS on an HP Proliant server and with a few hours of playing have managed to get all but a few small functions operative, the main being HP media collector which is why i re-installed and which i cannot get work AT ALL! (frustration levels rising).

Anyway, following last nights re-install in a foolish and big headed know it all way i made a mistake. When i was testing all features, as i had the first time, an error came up when testing the photo viewer, media streamer and photo publisher tabs.

I resolved this last time by editing the config files in the C>Programme files>Hewlett Packard…..files. Last time i deleted a certain line in all three of the services and it worked fine. In my hast i did this again but believe i have deleted the wrong line as cannot now access the Photo viewer remotely or on the actual machine desktop.

Would anyone be able to copy the text from their webconfig text file and send it to me PLEASE so i can see which line i have deleted in error and resolve.

I am loathed to re-install for a third time.

Thank you in advance to anyone may help

By: Alex Kuretz

Alex Kuretz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:26:31 +0000

Please post in the forums for troubleshooting assistance.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:26:02 +0000

full log…

203
0
2
203
101
0×8000000000000000

20847

Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational
DPC-PC

-
\DPC-mediaAgg
{12735E40-D427-4C93-8EAA-79B26284C953}
C:\Program
2147942402

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:21:58 +0000

Tks. tried but still an issue. When I checked Media Status Colletor tool gave me the following: Media Collector did not have read/write access to the server

also when i checked the task, had this recurring error message… thoughts? still not collecting music/pictures

Task Scheduler failed to launch action “C:\Program” in instance “{12735e40-d427-4c93-8eaa-79b26284c953}” of task “\DPC-mediaAgg”. Additional Data: Error Value: 2147942402.

By: Alex Kuretz

Alex Kuretz — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:08:20 +0000

Hi Stephen,

Congrats on the purchase of the MSS, and sorry to hear you are having difficulties. If you’ve not seen it yet, check out this Wiki entry, in particular the troubleshooting section. If that doesn’t resolve the problem, then please post in the forums and we’ll try to help you.

Thanks,
Alex

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:04:54 +0000

Alex, I am having a considerable amount of trouble with the Media Collection feature. I have about 28GB of music and wife has probably a similar amount but spread over mp3, video and pictures. I keep getting the error message. I have pored over the instructions and searched on web, but still unable to ascertain why it will not work. I have had the MediaServer up and running for about a week at this point.

I have the EX487 and 1.5TB of storage (SATA Hard Disk Seagate 1.5TB 3.5” 7200.11 ST31500341AS) and will be adding a second. I have set-up the guest account with no password and made sure all settings allow guest full access (to my chagrin).

Is it just that it will need to process the files over time. The password on my laptop is the same as the login for the server. I am the Administrator on my computer. sorry if this is the incorrect forum but driving me a bit nuts. if you could kick me in the right direction….