This guide its to help newbies to setup 2 boxes for Card Sharing in
Lan or Wan.

You need :

2 dreamboxes (???? of course)network conected
1 Network cable

a) If you connect the 2 boxes direct you need a cross network cable
B) if you connect the to boxes in a hub with other network devices then you need straigth network cable
(both of them easy to find in computer stores)
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Network setup:
Go in DreamBox setup-expert setup-network settings and put ip address (something like this)
dreambox1 : ip 192.168.0.1
subnet 255.255.255.0
gateway (ip address of the router)
DNS (ip address of the router)
If you dont have Internet connection leave Gateway and DNS blanc

dreambox2 : ip 192.168.0.2
subnet 255.255.255.0
gateway (ip address of the router)
DNS (ip address of the router)
If you dont have Internet connection leave Gateway and DNS blanc

Check the enable Networking chekbox

If you have a PC thats connect to internet (dialup or adsl) then you can put the pc's ip
as Gateway and DNS server in both boxes to give them internet access

IMPORTAND????
If you have a router for the internet the ip of the 2 boxes MUST be in same
network as your router.
Examples:
If the router's Ip address is 10.0.0.1 then your boxes ips MUST be 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.3
If your router's IP address is 192.168.1.1 then your boxes MUST be 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3

Now your boxes are connected... and with internet access (if its present)
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EMU and CardSharing How to:

Install in your boxes one of new images.
I prefer PLi Diamod as gives you the choise to have separate server and client EMU.
In this example we will use as cardserver EMU the NewCS and as client EMU Newcamd
So download and install in the boxes the 2 EMUS (NewCS and Newcamd). If only 1 DreamBox
it will act as a server then in the second one you dont need to install NewCS, only NEwcamd

Now we have to to configure the files for the sharing
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Server configuration of the file Newcs.xml (/var/tuxbox/config)
(in the supplied zip there is a Newcs.xml file for this example)

Open the file with a plain text editor (i use UltraEdit)

Find the section <debug>
and then <udp_host>192.168.0.1</udp_host>
Here you put your server box ip

Then find <udp_port>10000</udp_port>
Here you put servers port

Find the section <newcamdserver>
and then the <name>testserver</name>
Here you put the name of your server (testserver)
Then find <deskey>01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14</deskey>
Here you put a login key for your users in this format
Then find
<user>
<name>username1</name>
<password>userpas1</password>
<au>on</au>
<spider>No</spider>
</user>
and put user name and password for your users
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Server and client configuration of file Newcamd.conf (/var/tuxbox/config/newcamd)

(in the supplied zip there is a Newcamd.conf file for this example)
Open the file with a plain text editor

Find the line:

CWS = 192.168.0.1 10000 username1 userpas1 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 lan testserver

Line parts in plain English
1)192.168.0.1 --- ip address of the server (DreamBox acting as server)
(the same as the one defined on newcs.xlm)
2)10000 --- port of the server (the same as the one defined on newcs.xlm)
3)username1 userpas1 --- username and pass of the client (the same as the one defined on newcs.xlm)
4)01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 --- access code (the same as the one defined on newcs.xlm)
5)lan -- leave this as lan
6)cardserv - name of the cardsharing server (the same as the one defined on newcs.xlm)
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IMPORTAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Entrys in newcs.xml must be the same in the newcamd.conf
(ip addresses-servername-username-password-deskey)
All this is case sensitive (username it is not the same with UserName)

After saving transer the 2 files in your <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamBox" target="_blank">DreamBox</a> and restart your boxes...
In lan setups this is ready to work
In wan setups you need a router or a DreamBox plugin with DynamicDNS capabilities

Thats all guys
You are ready to CARDSHARE


colossus_r
Share the NowHow

Thnx for adding this to our knowledgebase.

FreeSat

Great post Collusus. Thank you for sharing.

@ Collosus
If the server has to have both Newcs.xml and Newcamd.conf with the servers details in them then how can the server share the clients card or is this just a one way share trip from server to client.

SERVER Newcs.xml

Find the section <debug>
and then <udp_host>192.168.0.1</udp_host>
Here you put your server box ip
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SERVER & CLIENT Newcamd.conf

1)192.168.0.1 --- ip address of the server (DreamBox acting as server)
(the same as the one defined on newcs.xlm)

The server can only have the one Newcamd.conf so how can he share the clients card when Newcamd.conf contains only servers details.

Jap

If i get the question then..
The server box has to share the cards to its self and to clients.
Thats why in the newcamd.conf (of the server) you must have the server ip address (or use "localhost" )

Let me now if i help

colossus of rhodes

Sorry if it sound confusing.
Where does the clients details go in servers config files. You only mention setting up servers details in both files. Does the client have to set up a server also to share his card with you.

Q: Does the client have to set up a server also to share his card with you.
A: Yes. If the "client" has to share a card (then its a "server") you have to configure the same way as the server and the client

q: Where does the clients details go in servers config files.
A: The only client details that you need in server config files are: Username- password -DesKey

Let me now if its ok


colossus

Hmm still not working. I think that the problem could be with the newcs.xml file. I am using a cerebro card from external phoenix at 6mz from server. In the file that you supplied there is only mention of upper and lower slots. Could this be the problem?

Hi japseye
Yes thats the problem. If you use external card reader you cant use that newcs.xml as it has section only
for internal slots.

Is there a special reason to use external reader in your DreamBox????

If no use DreamBox internal slots and it will be ok.

If yes then:
In the newcs.xml file of this post:

<a href="http://www.satfree.nl//index.php?showtopic=3567" target="_blank">http://www.satfree.nl//index.php?showtopic=3567</a>

there is an example for external readers.
Use that section in your xml file.
Its something like this

<readers name="Card Readers">
<device>
<name>phoenix</name>
<type>Phoenix</type>
<node>COM1</node>
<mhz>357</mhz> &#60;!-- or 357- 600 --&#62;
<parity>none</parity>
<export>yes</export>
<enabled>yes</enabled>
<blocksa>No</blocksa>
<blockua>No</blockua>
<blockga>No</blockga>
<boxkey>0000000000</boxkey>
<PTShandshake>yes</PTShandshake>
<crypto-special>yes</crypto-special>
<carddetect>no</carddetect>
<newcamd_port>10010</newcamd_port>
<priority>hard</priority> &#60;!-- round - hard is default --&#62;
<sid>
<allow>
&#60;!-- valid value for id are:
4 numbers, if the service id is 3 numbers, add a 0 infront of it. --&#62;
<id></id>
</allow>
<deny>
&#60;!-- valid value for id are:
4 numbers, if the service id is 3 numbers, add a 0 infront of it. --&#62;
<id></id>
</deny>
</sid>
</device>


</readers>



Be ware of the Newcamd_port to be the same as your client

Also beware of this: <node>COM1</node>

The serial port of the DreamBox is "/dev/sciX"

x is 0 or 1 or 2

Let me now the results

colossus