Purchased a new PC (basic Dell) with Vista about two weeks ago, as it was time. Vista is definitely proving itself to be buggy with other applications, but nothing like Silserver. I'm a certified Old Guy, and not computer literate by any stretch, but I do worship the slimserver experience, both for the radio listening experience and ease of my CD's having been converted to mp3. This forum is invaluable.
My experience with Vista and Slimserver has been very frustrating, although many thanks to Vdorta's workaround -- I don't know what I would have done without it. Nonetheless, even after downloading 6.5.2 and reinstalling using "Services.msc" the settings (especially for SlimServerMySQL) don't want to stay set. It just seems to change itself, no rhyme or reason to it. What's up with that? Am I doing something wrong? And while I have tried upon installation to set Slimserver to start upon system starting, that setting does not stay checked -- is there a way to do it after installation? Also: when I try to open Slimserver from the system tray I get: "Can't open to write to:\ProgramFiles\SlimServe\SlimServerWeb Interface Url: Permission Denied." Even after getting that, Slimserver opens -- sometimes -- from the desktop icon. Or if neither will open Slimserver, sometimes it nonetheless opens remotely by a wireless laptop. And like others have experienced, sometimes the Computer says Slimserver is running, but it's not-- confirmed by using the Services.msc drill, and, of course by the squeezebox itself. Rebooting, etc. doesn't seem to help, and often seems to make a mess of thing by changing my settings on "automatically start" to something else. As to firewalls: I think I'm all set with McAffee. But with Windows Firewall I guess I must be OK (since it's working now), although I confess I do not see SlimServer come up when I look for inbound rules. Does anyone have a suggestion on that-- i.e., how to make sure I'm OK with that. Microsoft's guidance is simply Greek to me, I confess. And I would welcome a step-by-step on making sure IE7 is set properly, if someone would be kind enough. Will this get better? Matt Silver Spring, Maryland -- mbr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mbr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11360 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32578 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
