[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine

2006-07-05 Thread hcanning
... 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

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine

2006-07-05 Thread Michael Herger
... 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

[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine

2006-07-05 Thread radish
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

[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine

2006-07-05 Thread JJZolx
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,

[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine

2006-07-05 Thread hcanning
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

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine

2006-07-05 Thread Michael Herger
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

[slim] Re: Multiple libraries (or multiple servers) on one machine

2006-07-05 Thread JJZolx
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