Podcast producer problem

Hi i wonder if someone can help me i have a problem with podcast producer in that it seems to work fine until it tries to post something to the group blog. At least that's where it says it fails in xgrid admin. Also it appears that there is no group blog how do i create it?

needed email service running and had wrong user running xgrid jobs needed to be pcastadmin, also needed to change server.pcast.private/groups/podcast to my own server name, dohhhh!

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We have been running podcast producer to post content to our iTunes U site since shortly after 10.5 came out. Responsibility for the server has recently been passed to me. The problem that we are having, the problem we have had for a very long time, is that "pcast action iTunesU" will fail. The logging is not very verbose so we do not know if it is a timeout issue or what. The problem is inconsistent, sometimes it works (for the same user using the same workflow) and other times it will just fail. Sometimes it will fail early on in the process, sometimes later on. It seems there is no consistency and as yet I have not been able to reproduce the problem from the command line.
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Message was edited by: smpsmp

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306737
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2009-11-04 18:23:59 -0600 - Checking database…
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then i do get it set up. i can log into the wiki. i see my videos. when i go to play them i get the quicktime logo with a ? in it. the problem i think is that it is trying to load the video at http://server.mydomain.org/video.
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Since it's a component of OS X Server, there's a much richer discussion forum for it here:
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Message was edited by: Nick Hoyle

Your 'tunes:summary' in the top section of the feed has several instances of the string
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I thought I would post back with the solution I finally found in case someone else runs across this. I was going crazy!
This link and the comments in reply to the topic show what the problem is. I could not find it in any Apple documentation so I'm very grateful to those who posted at this link, "Mounting a shared file system for Xgrid":
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100609114725470
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Not sure if this will fix your problem, but I was having the same problem until I looked at the specs for XGrid, it has to run on an Intel Mac. This is where you can get the specs:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306737
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Podcast Capture requirements
Any Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iSight camera (built-in or external) or FireWire DV camcorder
Podcast Producer Server requirements
Any Mac running Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard
Xsan for optional cluster file services
Podcast Producer Xgrid rendering requirements
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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard
At least 1 GB of memory (RAM) plus 512 MB of additional RAM per processor core
At least 50 GB of available disk space
Xsan for optional cluster file services
Quartz Extreme-enabled video chipset
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