Identifying a client by IP not MAC?

[granis]

Greetings Gurus!

Is it possible to register a media receiver by IP address?
As far as I understand only the MAC address field on the web GUI is writable.

OK, this is probably not a problem in the most situations but as twonky is not available on Solaris my setup becomes a bit odd running Twonky in a Linux zone. The Twonky Server is not able to correctly find out the MAC address of its clients and thus does not list them on the Media Receivers page. The receivers are however found and presented as active by IP address on the Server Status page.

Twonky Server 6.0p6 is running on CentOS 5 in a Branded Zone on top of OpenSolaris build 134.
Web GUI is run from a Mac with Firefox

TIA

[PeeBee]

I think you will just have to manually add the MAC addresses.

PB

[granis]

Tried that. Didn't work. The server does not connect the IP address with the MAC.

Cheers

[PeeBee]

The MAC and IP get written into the clients.data file in the twonky installation folder but I don't think it will be possible to manually edit that file as it holds more than just these 2 addresses.

If your setup will work I don't know how to achieve it.

PB

[granis]

Thanx PeeBee! It worked.

Had to add the following to /var/twonkymedia/twonkymedia/clients.data:

010Philips TV
017<MAC address>
015<IP address>

A lot of other stuff was added by the server afterward.