[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine
... If I'm running windows -- hcanning hcanning's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6172 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25238 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine
... If I'm running windows Ok, that document is rather Linux specific. But you'll basically have to either bind slimserver to one IP address (you can create more than one per machine) or use different ports (which will require to manually configure the players, too). Run slim.exe --help for a list of runtime parameters. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine
FYI I tried to do exactly that and had very little luck. Setting up a couple of interfaces and starting the servers correctly was easy, but the Squeezeboxes got very confused seeing two servers with the same hostname but different IPs. As Windows doesn't allow different interfaces to have different hostnames (does Linux?) it was basically unusable. There's a bug filed about this somewhere... -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25238 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine
There's no way for SlimServer to have two libraries. You need to run two instances of the server and connect the SqueezeBox to one or the other. Theoretically, you should be able to easily run two instances of the server on the same machine by using different IP addresses. In practice, though, it doesn't really work. See bug 3591. It's being worked on. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3591 -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25238 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine
OK I don't have any problem whatsoever connecting my Squeezeboxen between multiple physical servers... But how on earth would I make Slimserver run twice on windows? I can easily enough whack another network card in and have another interface -- hcanning hcanning's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6172 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25238 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine
If you had enough memory in your server one easy solution would be installing the free VMWare player and run SlimCD on it (128-/160MB for the VM could be enough). It would look like a second machine on the network. I'm doing this all the time when developping. The SB sees both servers and you can select from it. No special configuration to any slimserver needed. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine
hcanning Wrote: OK I don't have any problem whatsoever connecting my Squeezeboxen between multiple physical servers... But how on earth would I make Slimserver run twice on windows? I can easily enough whack another network card in and have another interface You don't need more than one network card. You can easily have multiple IP addresses bound to one card. In Windows XP, go to: Control Panel Network Connections Local Area Connection Properties Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties You have to set up the IP addresses manually - you can't use DHCP. Select 'Use the following IP adddress' and enter an IP address, subnet mask, and gateway. You'll also have to manually enter the DNS servers. Then go to Advanced IP Settings, where you can enter as many additional IP addresses and subnet masks as you like. To run SlimServer on a particular IP address (you'll have to do this for every instance of SlimServer running on the machine) you use command-line parameters to specify the IP address: Code: C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe --playeraddr 192.168.9.4 --httpaddr 192.168.9.4 --cliaddr 192.168.9.4 --streamaddr 192.168.9.4 I haven't played with it enough to know whether or not you can run two instances of SlimServer from the same physical files or whether you must have two completely separate installation directories. There's another command line option that tells SlimServer where the prefs file is, so I think that you might be able to use the same install and just specify different prefs files. Within the prefs file, you'd point at different database files. Copy the original and edit it manually. --prefsfile C\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slimserver.pref --prefsfile C\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slimserver2.pref Now, if you want them both to run as Windows services, you'll have to install at least one of the services yourself using Microsoft's Resource Kit tool 'instrv.exe' and then editing the registry. Of course, all for naught until bug 3591 is fixed. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25238 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
