Hi! I have the same netdrive and decided with 6.x to try and move the
server to my mac mini (see other thread in this forum) - one reason was
that the stability on the netdrive has really dropped with 6.x

5.4.1 works just fine, but 6.x exhibits the problems you mention - the
server dies really often and I can never reliably connect to radio
stations (often result of attempting is a server crash) - btw, I fixed
the slimp3 name thing by updating the  startup script to look for
slimserver.pl instead, so _that_ works. I assume also each time you
patch in the Prefs.pm change to look in /tmp or wherever for the
preferences path ?

Sure would be nice to connect with others in the martian (debian linux
I think?) world, and also have some sort of mechanism for having the
server automatically track for file updates which I never found out a
way to do (is there a way?).

Then I'd have my itunes library point to my martian drive, and then
have the slimserver there periodically check it's file tables for
updates.

One other downside I've noticed with the martian (other than having to
file transfer all my stuff via ethernet rather than access as
firewire/usb which would be way more convenient) is that the SMB
implementation on the Mac still sucks enormously in terms of
reliabilty....Oh yes, and the fact the company shut up shop so there is
no way to get support :-)


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gocam
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