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Hi Tech Guy, Sy Electronics are pretty good for converters, splitters etc. Dont work for them and not on commission, but we do use them quite a lot. Leilani Navaho

Hi gshaw, The thing about having an all in one unit is that you could be compromising on quality, also if you need to fix it/ upgrade, you would need to take the whole screen apart. There are many systems out there with dedicated units that are pretty small so can easily be mounted behind the screen or in a floating ceiling. With the MediaCAT you can be sure you are getting a fully operational dedicated digital signage solution that is compatible with pretty much all display systems - Projector, LCD, LED and Plasma (although not recommended). It is also easy to schedule the MediaCAT to turn LCD screens on and off automatically. I would hate for you to compromise on quality for the sake of having an all in one unit. PM me if you would like some more info.

Ummm, do a quick search on the MagicInfo on this site, should help you you choose the right solution.

Not sure if you have seen our post yesterday? the powerpoint aspect is easily resolved by simply saving the presentation as a slide show and then uploading to the MediaCAT, works perfectly.

Hi Enjay, we have recently released the new MediaCAT 4 with all its new features, so if you would like a free demo of the new unit just PM me. Regarding the powerpoint aspect; all you have to do is save the presentation as a slide show and upload to the MediaCAT, then It will play fine.

Navaho's MediaCAT offers an easy to manage, real-time Electronic Notice/Message Board/Digital Signage solution featuring a complete design & content system. A one-off fee with no minimum contracts involved. http://www.navaho.tv/applications/education.html From experience, we have found that our educational customers prefer the flexibility of designing, creating and uploading their own content as and when required and therefore the MediaCAT's "scenes" feature provides the perfect solution for them. However, from reading through this thread, it appears that some of you are keen to have content provided as a service for you and a system that is managed on your behalf. Is this the case - we would really appreciate some feedback from this.

Just a quick point - if you don't like using a command line, Webmin might be a useful alternative to a full GUI install. I haven't used it for some time, but I found it useful before I became confident enough to just use a command line.

You need to "mount" the server share - once you've done that, you'll be able to access it as though it were a local directory (this is more-or-less the *nix equivalent of mapping a network drive to a drive letter). To mount Windows shares, the CD uses Samba There is a directory named /mnt which is traditionally used as a base for mounting network shares. System Rescue CD has had a bug in the past (don't know if it's fixed now) that meant you shouldn't mount things directly in /mnt, but in a sub-directory. Create the directory where you will mount your Windows share. Open a terminal and type: mkdir /mnt/win Then, to mount the share, type something like: mount -t smbfs -o "lfs,username=WindowsUser,password=WindowsPassword" //1.2.3.4/share/ /mnt/win/ or (if you don't need user/password): mount -t smbfs -o lfs //1.2.3.4/share/ /mnt/win/ The "lfs" option enables large file support, which is needed to handle files larger than 2GB. Once that is done, you can simply run partimage and set the image file to something like /mnt/win/Windows_Image.img

Aha. All is well now

Hmm. Should be green!

This is Dos_Box testing out an account for Navaho who are going to be the new *nix forum sponsors, and jolly nice people to boot!