[rewster]

I got it to work finally. I guess rushing through things never works right, even though the error message is a bit misleading. I basically had not scanned the image for multicasting. One I recreated it and scanned it for multicasting it seemed to work. It seems it NetRestore Helper scans for ASR and Multicasting or something like that. Now all I have to do is play with the data rates. My test computer is a very old G4, but most of the computers I have out in our labs are High end G4-G5s.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Andrew

[rewster]

Greetings,
I have been trying to get this to work in my test environment before I unleash this on the network. I am behind a Linksys router. I also have DNS running as I have test Windows 2003 domain controllers. Anyway, I am a bit fuzzy with the settings. I am assuming that the Multicast Address is the address of the server that will be broadcasting, in my case 192.168.0.10? If so, when I add that to the .plist, and then run the ASR Multicast Server, I get the following:

Multicast server configuration:
Multicast Address: 192.168.0.10
Data Rate: 6000000
DNS Service Discovery: false
Ignoring bad URL
Ignoring bad URL
Ignoring bad URL

The Ignoring bad URL repeats its self over and over until I kill it. If I replace the 192.168.0.10 with the DNS name: od.adtest.usb.edu I get this:

Multicast server configuration:
Multicast Address: od.adtest.usb.edu
Data Rate: 6000000
DNS Service Discovery: false
Usage:
    asr -h | -v
    asr -source <source> -target <target> [<options>]
    asr -source asr://<host>/ -file <file> [<options>]

I know this is new and all, but the man page does not provide much info except on how to use it. Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely,

Andrew

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Andrew W. Johnson
Instructional Support Assistant
Department of Instructional Computing
Division of Information Technology
Stony Brook University
Melville Main Library, Room S1464
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3350
Tel: (631) 632-1824
Cell: (631) 767-9946

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