Joined: May 31, 2011
Posts: 2631
Location: Fort McMurray, AB
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 4:55 am
Okay. I consider myself pretty good at sorting this stuff out, but this one has me stumped. I know we ahve some network administrators her, so here goes:
The house I'm in has 2 ISPs providing service. One for me, one for the rest of the house. I wish to share media between the two. Each connection has a dedicated wireless N gigabit router, and I will have a spare router before long, which I'm planning to use as a repeater. Unless I find a better use for it - such as solving the problem to follow:
There's my LAN, which I'll call LAN1. My HTPC - containing all my media - is hardwired to LAN1, and has no wireless (though I DO have a spare 802.11N card, if the need arises) and the other, we'll call LAN2, is hardwired to the large media source via hardwire. This second source also has a wireless card. I can pull media from LAN2 (via wireless) to LAN1 (hardwired) easily enough, but the part that's been tough is getting the Boxee, hardwired to LAN2, to pull media from my HTPC on LAN1, while only connecting to LAN2, directly. The Boxee is certainly able to switch to wireless to access LAN1 easily, but I'd rather have the Boxee see all media without having to switch connections.
At first, I was hoping to Map the shared drives on LAN1 on the media source on LAN2, and share that mapped drive so LAN1 (and the Boxee) could see it. Turns out, I cannot find a way to share that mapped network drive. Shortcut links to the LAN1 network drives are not seen my the Boxee. The Boxee has to see my HTPC hsared drives/folders as actual folders. LAN1 runs on a Dlink DIR-825 with DD-Wrt firmware (which is awesome, btw), and LAN2 runs on a horrid CISCO modem/router. LAN1 will be using an ASUS RT-N56U in the next few weeks.
So, any ideas? I'm aware that I would be able to have a single SSID for all routers, but i wish to keep the outside traffic separate. Although I have 2x 100-foot ethernet cables, I'd really rather not have to drill 10 holes through the house to achieve this Great Share.
The wired connection on the LAn2 media source stays connected to the WAN, while its' wireless will stay connected to LAN1 wirelessly.
Is there a remedy? Can I share mapped network shares from LAN1, on the media source for LAN2, and have teh Boxee see the media from LAN1? Is this all to convoluted?
No NAS (this is on my lsit, tough(, adn both media sources are running Windows 7. The Boxee runs a version of Android, but it's not capable of doing much: like running both LAN and WLAN together.
-- Of all the soles I've ever tasted, his had the most ....cumin. --
The house I'm in has 2 ISPs providing service. One for me, one for the rest of the house. I wish to share media between the two. Each connection has a dedicated wireless N gigabit router, and I will have a spare router before long, which I'm planning to use as a repeater. Unless I find a better use for it - such as solving the problem to follow:
There's my LAN, which I'll call LAN1. My HTPC - containing all my media - is hardwired to LAN1, and has no wireless (though I DO have a spare 802.11N card, if the need arises) and the other, we'll call LAN2, is hardwired to the large media source via hardwire. This second source also has a wireless card. I can pull media from LAN2 (via wireless) to LAN1 (hardwired) easily enough, but the part that's been tough is getting the Boxee, hardwired to LAN2, to pull media from my HTPC on LAN1, while only connecting to LAN2, directly. The Boxee is certainly able to switch to wireless to access LAN1 easily, but I'd rather have the Boxee see all media without having to switch connections.
At first, I was hoping to Map the shared drives on LAN1 on the media source on LAN2, and share that mapped drive so LAN1 (and the Boxee) could see it. Turns out, I cannot find a way to share that mapped network drive. Shortcut links to the LAN1 network drives are not seen my the Boxee. The Boxee has to see my HTPC hsared drives/folders as actual folders. LAN1 runs on a Dlink DIR-825 with DD-Wrt firmware (which is awesome, btw), and LAN2 runs on a horrid CISCO modem/router. LAN1 will be using an ASUS RT-N56U in the next few weeks.
So, any ideas? I'm aware that I would be able to have a single SSID for all routers, but i wish to keep the outside traffic separate. Although I have 2x 100-foot ethernet cables, I'd really rather not have to drill 10 holes through the house to achieve this Great Share.
The wired connection on the LAn2 media source stays connected to the WAN, while its' wireless will stay connected to LAN1 wirelessly.
Is there a remedy? Can I share mapped network shares from LAN1, on the media source for LAN2, and have teh Boxee see the media from LAN1? Is this all to convoluted?
No NAS (this is on my lsit, tough(, adn both media sources are running Windows 7. The Boxee runs a version of Android, but it's not capable of doing much: like running both LAN and WLAN together.
-- Of all the soles I've ever tasted, his had the most ....cumin. --