Back to the first issue, I have an old EPIA Eden machine running as my slimserver, and as I listen to the BBC I use Alien BBC so have to stay down this route. The machine is quiet and lower power. It itself connects to a Bufflo Terastation which is fine, but the slimserver software would not do a thing with it where as the MP3s share was connected as my M: drive and via Media Player or WinAmp plays my MP3's fine. sheesh, even the TwonkyServer I was using for the Netgear MP101 was working fine. I tried the workgroups, user ID's and everything else. In the end I looked at the services again mainly to check that the Windows Firewall was disabled - it was. I saw that the SSDP discovery service was disabled and thought, nothing to loose I'll restart it. Voilia, all working and the slimserver is now working via a UNC address too.
To be honest, with lots of the small NAS devices, a 200Mhz or greater PPC or MIPS processor can easily do these tasks. RISC processors can run at far lower speeds and CISC processors. Sheesh, Look how long it took the PPC range to get to GHz speeds after the Intel/AMD race. The late G4 processors in Macs easily outperform a high end PIII. Not sure of the speed of the PPC derivatives in the Xbox, PS3 and GameCube, but they may just about reach 2.3Ghz, no more which is way down on the x86 speeds which they have moved away from. -- poyntzj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ poyntzj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2628 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22820 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
