United Kingdom
Hi,
Sorry if this is the wrong forum but it's possible this could be something that other people might've come across when setting up their LANs for TV Server.
I've reinstalled MediaPortal and TV-Server with the latest SVNs to my main server, and installed the same to all the PCs on my home LAN. I'm using MSSQL Server 2005.
On almost every machine including the server itself, TV Client works exactly as it should.
But I have one machine that cannot connect to the SQL instance for love nor money - and I just want to know if this could be related to the fact that it is the only machine I've got that's loaded with XP Home rather than Professional.
I can PING the server, and map drives to it, from the XP Home machine; the local SQL Server instance works OK, and the named pipes and TCP/IP connections on both that PC and my server are set up fine - but I can't connect to one from the other.
Oddly enough, for any other form of IP connectivity my issues are all one-way - I can map drives to the server or any other PC on the network from that one, and surf the web on it, but even a PING test to that PC from the router's admin console fails, and none of the other machines on the network can see it in the workgroup, or map drives to it.
I've gone through the IP and SQL Server configs on both the server and this PC with a fine toothed comb (same NETBIOS, WINS and subnet info on all machines), and can't see any reason why it doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas? At this moment in time I'm seriously considering nuking the install and replacing it with XP Professional but thought I'd check here first just in case there's a really obvious explanation.
Sorry if this is the wrong forum but it's possible this could be something that other people might've come across when setting up their LANs for TV Server.
I've reinstalled MediaPortal and TV-Server with the latest SVNs to my main server, and installed the same to all the PCs on my home LAN. I'm using MSSQL Server 2005.
On almost every machine including the server itself, TV Client works exactly as it should.
But I have one machine that cannot connect to the SQL instance for love nor money - and I just want to know if this could be related to the fact that it is the only machine I've got that's loaded with XP Home rather than Professional.
I can PING the server, and map drives to it, from the XP Home machine; the local SQL Server instance works OK, and the named pipes and TCP/IP connections on both that PC and my server are set up fine - but I can't connect to one from the other.
Oddly enough, for any other form of IP connectivity my issues are all one-way - I can map drives to the server or any other PC on the network from that one, and surf the web on it, but even a PING test to that PC from the router's admin console fails, and none of the other machines on the network can see it in the workgroup, or map drives to it.
I've gone through the IP and SQL Server configs on both the server and this PC with a fine toothed comb (same NETBIOS, WINS and subnet info on all machines), and can't see any reason why it doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas? At this moment in time I'm seriously considering nuking the install and replacing it with XP Professional but thought I'd check here first just in case there's a really obvious explanation.