mherger;434226 Wrote: > > > > I'm an "advanced" user so > > I would also like the opportunity to setup the start mode to be > system > > start and to enter the user id and password. > > Sure. But as you say: you're an advanced user. The new customer who > does > an initial install usually doesn't even know about this feature (or > that > he wants it...). > > > that the cp had also reported scanning 2 albums (the sample ones in > the > > random windows directory). > > This is a very interesting point. What you consider "the random windows > > directory" is (according to MS guidelines) the place where music should > go > on a Windows system. But nobody seems to be following MS directions... > > > 2 albums). The only way I could get SbS to use the unc paths was to > use > > the web ui settings page. > > You mean you were not able to browse them using the Windows folder > selector dialog? > > > Along the way I noticed the multiple SbS processes running with > > differnt user IDs when saving from the SbS CP. > > This should be fixed now. > > > I also, at one point, > > noticed that I had about 6 scanner.exe processes running. I > manually > > Must be another bug. > > > 5) I don't think that is the case. I had changed the mode/user and > > restarted it. It was running under the other user. When I saved > again > > Whatever happened there, please give it another try. The restart and > startup behaviour setting should be handled much better now. > > > Most of this is user feedback on the install ease of use, etc. so > I'm > > not planning on filing any bugs (unless you tell me to). > > Please do so for the mulitiple scanner issue. > > Michael
Aggeed to the "advanced user" point - why I mentioned it. However, there are 2 different kinds of advanced users - one who knows Squeeze* products and one who knows Windows/other OS lines. Even the first time I installed SlimServer I would have known that I would have wanted it to run as a Windows Service. It doesn't matter too much as long as the actual SbS process is not auto-started by the install. Then it just gets in the way and makes things more complicated. In fact, if the flow is: 1) final install screen with a checkbox to start the control panel 2) Hitting the "Finish" button with the checkbox checked. 3) Ending the install process and starting up the SbS CP process with the initial screen (and probably the squeezetray.exe as well?). 4) Entering the basic information. 5) The full SbS CP screen comes up and allows the user to modify settings. At least I think that this is what I heard you state it was going to do. The only suggestion I'd have with this is that I'd move the "initial" screen to the first sheet/tab of the control panel and not have 2 UIs/programs. The 2 programs is a bit complicated/confusing to the user. They would never have to go to the other tabs since you can start/stop from the first/basic screen so they shouldn't have to deal with the complexity. Another thought would be to have an "advanced" button if you still want to have 2 UIs but then I'd also always have 2 UIs - consistency is important. On the music location - agreed that it is the Windows place to put them but other things put stuff there so it isn't clean. Also, the recommended location changes over time and I just plain have difficulty in finding them. Look at how many recommended places there are currently for downloads, too. Between "public", current user, different user, etc. I get lost. Plus I'm using a NAS for music storage (something that will become more and more common, I think). It is a great default, but quite often not used by a large percentage of people. On the UNC paths - In the SbS CP I could browse and pick the unc path. I could save it and load it back up again in the SbS CP. However, the actual SbS didn't see it and still was trying to use c:\... instead. This was after several restarts of both SbS CP AND SbS. The only conclusion that I could come to was that they were looking in different places for the location. I wasn't able to reproduce the multiple scanner issue this weekend - I think that it was most likely a result of some of the other things going on. When I do some new install and upgrade testing I'll keep an eye out for them again. -- dwilliams01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64497 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
