[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-20 Thread ModelCitizen
Robin Bowes Wrote: I hope it was more thorough than when you brought that Pentium 166 with 96MB of RAM round to my place and wanted to install Linux on it :) R. Yeah, thanks for reminding me of that Robin! :-) At the time my company were running two FreeBSD based nameservers on 486s with

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-20 Thread ModelCitizen
When the firmware installed correctly I found that SlimServer 6.5 could not access my music. It looks like an old bug may have resurfaced. The only account I seem to be able to run SlimServer on so that it has permission to access my music files across the network (to a Windows Home machine) is

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-20 Thread ModelCitizen
Triode Wrote: When you have a blank screen does the server think ther is a player connected? Which 6.5 nightly are you using? SlimServer had died. I restarted it. I was using the nightly I downloaded last night. So far it appears to be running well, but this is on my main PC that has a

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-20 Thread Triode
ModelCitizen Wrote: Otherwise it is looking promising. I am now uninstalling 6.3.1 from my underpowered music server latop and installing 6.5. I'm keeping my figers crossed that I'll have enoough horses to run it. Cheers MC Sounds promising - let us know how you get on.. -- Triode

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-20 Thread ModelCitizen
Thanks. Will do. I need to delete the 6.5 database from my music server as I have installed 6.5 on it and copied across the SlimServer Program Files from my main machine (so I don't have to set up all the codecs, plugins and config again). Could you possible tell me where it is (on Windows)? I've

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-20 Thread Triode
I think it is the same as on linux - in the Cache dir at the top level of the server along with other caches. You should be able to delete all of the content of Cache without impact. -- Triode Triode's Profile:

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-20 Thread ModelCitizen
Cheers. I have deleted contents of SlimServer directory and restarted SlimServer. It seems to be recreating the stuff now. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-20 Thread ModelCitizen
As I am now reporting back on my experience of installing 6.5 I've continued in the beta forum: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26561 MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread Triode
6.5 has actually had a lot more tuning to improve performance, but it possibly requires a bit more memory. I would recommend trying 6.5 rather than hunting for the cause of delays with 6.31. It is nearing the end of development and so either wait a few more weeks or try one of the nightly

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread ModelCitizen
Cheers Triode. I was nearly at this point anyway. I've installed it on my main machine and will try it. I hope it will run on my underpowered dedicated laptop but do not hold out much hope. Maybe it's time to trash it. I've spent so many hours getting 6.3.* to work correctly that I'll be glad to

Re: [slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread Pat Farrell
ModelCitizen wrote: Cheers Triode. I was nearly at this point anyway. I've spent so many hours getting 6.3.* to work correctly that I'll be glad to see the back of it. I've been running the beta 6.5 for a while, and Triode and others have made great strides at fixing the dropouts in my system.

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread Triode
One thing to point out. 6.5 includes additional features to reduce dropouts on linux if they occur when you are viewing web pages. Pat is running this and it may be an option for your laptop (if you are linux litterate - its probably too big a step otherwise) -- Triode

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread ModelCitizen
Cheers but I tried Linux. Panic, Panic cannot mount root. I tried your (?) Slimserver CD. I couldn't get this to work either. I tried another four versions of Linux... within the time I had to get it right I had no joy. I am sticking with Windows. I do not want to spend time learning new Os's. I

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread ModelCitizen
Groaaann. I tried to get my Squeezebox to connect to my alternative 6.5 version of SlimServer and the box froze at Press Right now to use SlimServer. I've had to power off to recover. I am now trying to balance out the time I take to put CDs in the CDX (and lack of playlists, internet

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread Triode
It should work just the same on window as liunx minus the one feature I mentioned. Post here and we can help you get it up and running. - do you have a firewall on the new machine? - can you get softsqueeze to work with the new server -- Triode

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread ModelCitizen
Rebooted Squeezebox. Asks me to update firmware (why didn't it do this first time around?... yes I know, it's beta). Did that and get some message like bad state or something. I can hear the owls outside now. It's probably a better bet to listen to them for an hour or two. :-) MC --

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread ModelCitizen
The owls have gone to bed. Squeezebox is now pretty much dead. I did, after rebooting three times get a request to update the firmware again. I did this. And now, after going through the network connection stuff again I get Connecting To SlimServer and then a black screen. Can only reboot. I'm

[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread Triode
When you have a blank screen does the server think ther is a player connected? Which 6.5 nightly are you using? -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread Robin Bowes
ModelCitizen wrote: Cheers but I tried Linux. I hope it was more thorough than when you brought that Pentium 166 with 96MB of RAM round to my place and wanted to install Linux on it :) R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help

2006-08-19 Thread Robin Bowes
ModelCitizen wrote: Rebooted Squeezebox. Asks me to update firmware (why didn't it do this first time around?... yes I know, it's beta). Did that and get some message like bad state or something. There was a bug (in slimserver, I believe) that caused the wireless connection to time out before