Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Linux music over SAMBA on Win 7 machine

2012-11-28 Thread maggior
SlimChances wrote: > Not sure if it is because I am using Linux and Windows machines together > but I am not able to get the web Interface on my laptop just the > Squeezeplay interface which is fine. The web interface works on my > desktop which is where my music is stored. Not a big issue, but t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Linux music over SAMBA on Win 7 machine

2012-11-28 Thread SlimChances
Not sure if it is because I am using Linux and Windows machines together but I am not able to get the web Interface on my laptop just the Squeezeplay interface which is fine. The web interface works on my desktop which is where my music is stored. Not a big issue, but thanks very much for your hel

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Linux music over SAMBA on Win 7 machine

2012-11-27 Thread maggior
You can still use the web interface even though the server is running on another PC. Think of squeezeplay as making your computer work like squeezebox hardware. The squeezebox hardware is separate from the server - it's a true client server setup. I'm actually doing this right now - laptop in m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Linux music over SAMBA on Win 7 machine

2012-11-27 Thread SlimChances
Thanks maggior, that works fine. I removed LMS from the Win 7 PC and I have it nearly as I wanted it. I prefer the LMS web page to Squeezeplay interface but it still has virtually the same functionality SlimChances's Prof

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Linux music over SAMBA on Win 7 machine

2012-11-27 Thread maggior
You don't need to run lms on both machines. You can run lms on the linux machine and just grab the windows version of squeezeplay to run on the window machine. In this configuration, you would only need samba setup so that you can manage/organize your music files with your windows PC. I have

[SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Linux music over SAMBA on Win 7 machine

2012-11-27 Thread SlimChances
I am trying to play music through my Win 7 HTPC over SAMBA from my Ubuntu 12.04 computer. I know the music will play on the WIN 7 computer through SAMBA in XMBC but I am having problems with LMS. I installed the latest stable versions of LMS and Squeezeplay to my Win 7 HTPC and in control panel id