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Author Topic: Setting up FTP source on GDC Server Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 06-05-2014 08:35 PM                        I would like to set up a management computer as an FTP source for a GDC server. The purpose would be for ingesting keys without having to insert a USB stick and then move it to the server. The computer in question is already on the network and able to connect to the server and projector. In GDC, I know I need to set it up on the Sources tab under manage content, but I'm not sure what other steps to take.  |  IP: Logged Trenton Thompson Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Poteau, Ok, USA Registered: Jul 2012 posted 06-05-2014 10:43 PM                     It's pretty easy. Make sure you have a Filezilla server or some FTP server running on the PC you want to use. I have the same exact setup that you're wanting to run. On the GDC under manage content go to sources tab like you said. Click Add source. For Source Name it can be anything you want, Ours is KDM Storage Source Type will be FTP Source IP will be whatever the IP is of the computer running the FTP Server in our case its xxx.xxx.172.25 Source Path will typically just be blank I believe. In my case my FTP server starts in the C drive but I wanted it to point specifically to the keys folder I have so in my case its documents/kdm in this box. Username will be whatever you set it to on the FTP Server Password will be whatever you set it to on the FTP Server As you can see you'll need to setup some user accounts on the FTP Server. In filezilla its easy just click add users and give permissions as well as point to which folder you want. PS: One trick I used in my setup is dropbox. It'll allow you to drop the keys from any computer over the internet and then if the dropbox software is installed on the management computer, the keys will autodownload to a specific folder and you can point the servers there. Just drag and drop then head up to the server to ingest or do it remotely.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-06-2014 12:11 AM                     Would there be a protocol where the KDM, that are being sent by the depots via email, be automatically extracted from the emails and unzipped prior to being inserted in Dropbox? Then, the KDM content in Dropbox be automatically captured by the FTP client and sent to the proper target? I'm doing just exact - extracting KDM's from emails, using Explorer to open up the zipped files to be saved on a thumbdrive, or a dedicated directory in the TMS where I use the GDC/TMS/Content/Key Ingest tab to ingest the keys in the LMS, then to be networked to the 15 GDC portable storage drives - each attached to a BARCO with the SX-3000 IMB installed. Where, when I was with REGAL, it was automatically done by the depots to assigned location - we didn't have to do any of this manually. thx-Monte  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 06-06-2014 04:57 AM                     http://gearmage.com/maildownloader.html Our Sony has a 'hotfolder' option for KDMs. You can point it to an FTP or SMB target on the network and it will automatically ingest any KDM it finds there. At some time, I have seen KDMs not coming as attachments, but only as download links in emails. But that vanished quickly - probably because it's not compatible with TMS needs. I still prefer the 'old school' way of ingesting them manually one by one. I need to check KDMs anyway, so I can just as well ingest them in no time. A system of two or three separate applications to get the KDMs from email to server could also fail at multiple points. Still, would be a nice feature for DropBox if files could be created automatically from email attachments. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Tim Sherman Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: North Ridgeville, OH, USA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 06-06-2014 08:15 PM                        Justin i thought you were using the Cinedigm LMS? Or is this for th e Drive-In?  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 06-06-2018 10:00 PM                 It has been 1461 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 06-06-2018 10:00 PM                        I am connecting our drive-in network to our cinema network. I'm wondering if it's possible to set up one GDC to be content source for another GDC. Ultimately we're hoping to get DCDC to set us up so that content can be pushed from our Kencast to our drive-in rather than always having to receive hard drives. In the mean time it would be nice to be able to transfer content from a Cinema GDC server out to the drive-in GDC server. For what it's worth, the servers will all be on the 10.194.185.x subnet.  |  IP: Logged Jason Raftery Film Handler Posts: 72 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: May 2011 posted 06-06-2018 10:48 PM                     Yes, that can be done if you have a fast enough connection between the two servers and a network route between the cinema and drive in media networks. On the destination server, set the source type to FTP in Content Manager > Source, then enter the ETH2 IP address of the server you want to pull content from. The source path field can be left blank and you will need to enter GDC's username and password for content transfers. Also check the box labeled 'Show ingest content annotation text' so as to be able to easily identify different packages when figuring out what to transfer. The DCDC server can also be added as an ingest source on the GDC in a similar fashion.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 06-06-2018 11:18 PM                        Thanks Jason. We just installed a fiber optic line between our cinema and drive-in, so we should have plenty of speed.  |  IP: Logged Annli Com Expert Film Handler Posts: 140 From: ShibuPaul-India Registered: May 2014 posted 06-08-2018 02:40 AM                        In AAM Screenwriter TMS Just configure your email account , The kdm automatically Unzip and transfer to All Connected servers.  |  IP: Logged

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