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<berkyj@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ok,
>
> Here's the latest update - sorry its taken me a couple of
days to post
> this.

No problemo :-)

>
> I sent an email to CA support about this issue as well and
received a
> response

Geez you're lucky.  They stopped talking to me.

 indicating that because my XP machine was part of a Domain
> that this may be the cause of it not connecting. Anyway I
thought I
> would step it right back to basics.
>
Always a good start.

> Firstly I removed the XP box from the Domain and brought
the 640H into
> where the XP box is located. I set up a small hub and
plugged the two
> network cables into this. Voila, after some messing around
it worked
> but here was the strange thing; it would only work if I
set the gateway
> to the IP address of the XP box, if I set it to the actual
IP of the
> router (the proper gateway) it didn't want to know about
it. At least I
> was getting somewhere.
>
Now you are mixing two different network types.  A hub will
allow other machines to connect to a *server* where as a
router *is* the server.  You need to be very clear on this
and I'm no network expert at all.

So a hub would connect to a server that had say an IP
address of 198.1.1.5.  On a domain through a router the
router would be 198.1.1.1 (the first address) and then the
XP machine could be 198.1.1.5 BUT you would set the range on
the router as 198.1.1.1 - 198.1.1.100 if you wanted 99
machines to connect to it.  I hope I have this right and if
I haven't someone here will surely correct me ;-)

> Next I moved the 640H out to where the main network switch
is located
> (another room) and plugged it in there and tried the same
thing - no
> problems. Connected fine and found the share.
>
> When I moved it back to the lounge room where I want it to
live it then
> couldn't find it. I checked all the cabling with a cable
tester to make
> sure there were no dead pins or switched pins and it all
worked fine.
> The only thing I can think of is that it doesn't like a
cable run that
> long (it's only about 20metres tops but longer than the
other runs I
> was testing it on).

Mine is over 30m so that is not an issue.

>
> Anyway, primary problem solved - the 640H will not work
within a
> Windows Domain environment,

Yes it will.  I'm sorry to say.

 it obviously doesn't have the necessary
> networking components needed to access the share (strange
considering
> my laptop which is not part of my home Domain could see
the share with
> no problems).

It must have fluked a vaccant IP address ;-)

>
> I have a spare machine I will build up as a dedicated mp3
box and it
> can sit closer to the 640H and hopefully that will work.

Really no need.

>
> Overall, I'm a bit dissapointed in how the 640H handles
networking
> considering it sells it as one of its features. I just
think some more
> effort needed to be put into it or hopefully will be in a
future update
> (depending on how regularly they are released).
>
I (and others) have found it very easy and I usually
struggle with networking

> Thanks for your help at anyrate.

I have tried.

>
> Berk
>

Tip:  I am using XP Professional and  I have heard of some
people that have problems with XP Home and the CA 640H.
Funny thing, one of them was my dealer that sells them and
he even paid a network pro to come out and solve it :-))
Which he couldn't :-))    I laughed anyway :-))

Professional seems to have better networking abilities.
Anyway you need to have another good look at what you are
doing.  It will work.



Cheers TT