A General CS Tutorial

A General Cardshare Tutorial that should answer most of your questions

1. Introduction
ATTENTION! All this information is for test purpose and should only be used within your own household.
No one except yourself is responsible for any damage this can cause or any law you might break.

2. Hardware
What hardware you’ll need is based on how your house looks like, where you want to watch TV,
how big server you want to have and so on.
What we all need is a Dreambox of some kind.
A computer with internet connection.

3. Hardware installation
Put your Dreambox in a suitable place by your TV.
Connect the cable from your satellite dish (if you use a satellite dish) to your Dreambox tuner.
Connect the network cable to the Dreambox.
Switch on.

4. Setup your network
To be able to share with another CCcam server or even many servers you need to set up an network.
4.1 Fixed IP PC
First of all you need a static ip in some way. Either you have one from your ISP or you can set one up for yourself.
4.2 Network setup Dreambox
Now you are ready to setup the ip of your Dreambox.
You should have all information needed if you did step 4.1.
For example
PC ip = 192.168.1.141

Dreambox ip =192.168.1.142
subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
Default gateway = 192.168.1.1
DNS Server = 216.104.63.7
Remember to switch DHCP OFF
4.3 Port forward router
Now you need to port forward all traffic trough one port to the Dreambox ip.
see>>> www.portforward.com
Default port is 12000 but this can be changed in the config (CCcam.cfg).


5. Software installation Dreambox
Now we need to have the software to make the Dreambox work properly.
5.1 Flash imageThere are different images to choose from and it’s up to you what you prefer.
But let’s chose a PLI image for this guide.
Search this site for the newest image.
When you have downloaded the newest image you need to flash it to your Dreambox.
5.2 Install CCcam
Next step is to install CCcam
Remember that this might change on newer images but the basics will probably be the same.
In the today’s most recent image:
Go to menu/plugins
Click green button
then click softcams and chose CCcam and install.
Remember to change your default cam to CCcam.

6. Software installation (PC)
There aren’t really any software that you have to install but there are some that makes everything easier.
6.1 DNS Updater
This is more or less an must have.
An DNS Updater is a software that constantly checks your public ip and links it to your static ip.
Many ISP have dynamic ip’s which means that you’ll get a public ip that will change once in a while.
It doesn’t mater if you’ll set a static ip in your PC, you’ll still have a public ip that will change.
Therefore you will use a DNS Updater to fix this problem and always link your DNS servername which you will register for to your static ip.

There are a few to chose from but I will recommend two:
www.dyndns.com
www.no-ip.com

6.2 Dreambox Control Center (DCC) or flashfxp or any free ftp client
You can use this to edit your CCcam.cfg.
This is pretty easy, just open the program and insert the ip for your router and Dreambox.
You can change the language to English.


7. Find someone to share with
When you have found someone to cardshare with you need to exchange C- and Flines.
Let’s go through the basic with Flines and Clines.
8. Flines and Clines the basics
The CCcam.cfg file is located in your Dreambox.
You can access it from your PC with DCC.

FTP to location:
Code:
var/etc
Right click on CCcam.cfg and chose edit.
Fline
The Fline is basically the same as creating a user account on your server.
The Fline consists of a Username and Password
In your config you have a Friend section that is the part where you should add the Flines.

Cline
The Cline is more like a connection string that you give to your peers so that they can connect to your server.
To be able to connect they need to have an account on your server (the Fline).
Here is a basic Fline
F: [username] [password] additional info
F: myfriend abc123 3 0 0 { 0:0:3 }
The part behind the password is privileges and restrictions.
3 0 0 { 0:0:3 }
This user gets all cards at a maximum of 3 hops away from us,
and get's to share them down two further levels beyond his own level.
Here is a basic Cline
C: [server] [port] [Fline username] [Fline password] additional info
C: myserver.dyndns.org 12000 myfriend abc123 no { 0:0:3, 100:3, 100:4 }
no { 0:0:3, 100:3, 100:4 }
no = don’t receives friends emus
{ 0:0:3 = how many hops down you want to receive cards from that server
, 100:3, 100:4 } = here you can block cards from that server
Summary of Clines and Flines
in your config
F: myfriend abc123 3 0 0 { 0:0:3 }
C: the Cline that were sent to you.
In your peers config
F: an Fline that match the Cline that was sent to you
C: your.server.org 12000 myfriend abc123 no { 0:0:3, 100:3, 100:4 }

Feel free to ask questions
I hope this will help those of you that decide to try cardsharing