I got my SB3 a few days and also had problems connected to slimserver. Don't know if this will help your particular case, but it might help someone in the future, so I'll post it anyway.
Symptoms - SB3 seemed to set itself up fine both via ethernet and wirelessly. It obtained a proper IP address. I could ping it from my Slimserver PC. But it wouldn't link up - it just hung on 'Connecting to Slimserver'. From the router lights I could see that it was talking to the Slimserver PC (and slim.exe was using increased CPU time) but it just wouldn't connect. Strangely, it connected to Squeezenetwork quite happily. I tried every combination of everything I could think of, turned off all encryption, deactivated my PC's firewall, my router's firewall, etc. Still nothing. Searched the forums for any clues. Was tearing my hair out. About 5 torturous hours later, I stumbled across a post by (IIRC) Michael Herger where he mentioned the 'blocking' control on Slimserver. I'd installed SS on my new server a couple of months ago, well before the arrival of my SB3, and being the sort who verges on paranoia over such matters, had enabled the 'block access except for these IPs' setting. *Of course, I'd completely forgotten to go back in and add the IP address my new SB3 was now occupying.* Which is presumably why SlimServer was ignoring my SB3's repeated plaintive entreaties to connect. Oh, how I laughed hysterically! In hindsight, it wasn't such a bad thing, because I underwent a crash course in wireless networking (first time I'd tried it) and configuring my router - irrelevant as it all turned out to be, it was good to learn a bit about such things. However, given this is a rather elementary yet maddening mistake, I wonder if it might be worth including in the SS FAQ, or something? I suppose I should add it to the Wiki myself. Has anyone contemplated doing some kind of 'Troubleshooting wizard' for all this sort of stuff? (PS - thanks Michael, you saved my sanity that night ;) -- oktup ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oktup's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1117 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22184 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
