Why:
Why not
A better reason is the way I use MP.
I boot my computer from a compact flash card and wanted it to have my installation as light as possible.
How:
The most common way is to start Media Portal from a network share.
The advantages are:
A less Common way is to use an iSCSI target.
This sounds expensive and you think you probably need a lot of hardware to do so, but the truth is, it is for free and you do not need extra hardware.
The advantages are:
The way to start MP from a network share is described in the https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-talk-45/media-portal-frontend-compact-flash-tutorial-howto-38610/
This Howto will describe the iSCSI target.
LETS START
On The Server:
Download the Sanfly iSCSI target software.
Or nicely register yourself on the emBoot Sanfly download page:
On the Client:
Ben
Why not
A better reason is the way I use MP.
I boot my computer from a compact flash card and wanted it to have my installation as light as possible.
How:
The most common way is to start Media Portal from a network share.
The advantages are:
- Quite easy to configure
- Easy to use
- Just easy to setup
- Network not always ready when starting up
- same problem as previous ;-)
- You have to fiddle around to get security working (.NET applications will not start from a network drive by default)
- etc
A less Common way is to use an iSCSI target.
This sounds expensive and you think you probably need a lot of hardware to do so, but the truth is, it is for free and you do not need extra hardware.
The advantages are:
- iSCSI mounts a real drive onto your computer (at least, all software thinks it's a real drive)
- This drive is available, the moment windows starts
- No .NET security issues
- A bit more complicated to setup
- ???
The way to start MP from a network share is described in the https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-talk-45/media-portal-frontend-compact-flash-tutorial-howto-38610/
This Howto will describe the iSCSI target.
LETS START
On The Server:
Download the Sanfly iSCSI target software.
Or nicely register yourself on the emBoot Sanfly download page:
- Install it on your XP/Windows2003/2008 Server
- Startup Sanfly
- Create a iSCSI Target by right clicking on the sanfly icon in the left pane
- Only define the name of your iSCSI target (press next)
- Create a new Disk file (press next)
- define the size of the iSCSI target disk (1Gbyte will do fine) and select the place where you want the iSCSI target to be saved.
On the Client:
- Download the iSCSI initiator from Microsoft (it's free and it works) (Always look if there is a newer version)
- Install it onto your Client
- Start up the iSCSI initiator
- Add a target portal and enter the IP address of your Server
- Go to the tab Targets, and you will see your created target on the sanfly iSCSI target
- Press Logon, and select the checkbox: Automatically restore this connection when windows starts
- Press OK
- Now right click on "My Computer" and select Manage
- Select Disk Management
- Select the newly created disk and format it
- Afterwards, you will find a new disk when you open "My Computer"
- Install MP onto this newly created drive and voila, you will have a Media Portal, starting from the network.
Ben