Podcast producer ethernet address

Hi there trying to get podcast producer to work, it runs jobs in xgrid until about 90% then fails when it is trying to post to blogg i noticed that the mac address in my workgroup manager is giving the the WAN port address and not the LAN address i would have thought it needed as i'm running a NAT network. Just wondered is this important? Also what user should you run jobs as? On the BLOGG it says their is a student group but when i go to it, it says 404 no group is hosted on this server????
Any ideas?

it turned out to be a problem with not binding the cameras or having mail service started and was running xgrid as the wrong user, i had to use pcastadmin

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