NigelC Wrote:
> I have been running a version of 6.5 from late Feb quite successfully
> (mainly for Ben's excellent 770 skin). I have just tried the lastest
> 6.5, to get the latest 770 skin improvements, but the server keeps
> stopping for reasons I have yet to fathom.
>
> It would be really useful if I could install the new version into a
> seperate folder, so I could revert to the previous install if I
> encounter problems, but then have the option to run up the new version
> to do some testing/debugging.
>
> (or even better, to run two versions of Slim concurrently)
>
> Any ideas on if/how this can be achieved
>
> (Im running WinXP)
It's doable. Sort of... To do this on a single machine you need to
give the server more than one IP address and then run each instance of
SlimServer on a different IP address. But there are a number of issues
why it doesn't work as well as it should.
- If they're running on the same machine then your Squeezeboxes will
become horribly confused because each instances of the server will
identify itself using the machine's host name. See bugs 3591 and
3592.
- You won't be able to use the Windows installer for both of them if
you want them to both run as services. This is because there's no
provision in the installer to name the SlimServer service, so the
second Windows service installation would overwrite the first. But
you can work around this by manually installing one or all instances
of the service yourself using instsrv.exe from the Windows Resource
Kit. Requires some meddling about in the registry as well, where
you'll need to add the appropriate startup options to slim.exe to
tell it to use a particular IP address.
- The second service may refuse to start up because the other one is
running. I've seen this problem lately and don't know why this is an
issue if they're running on different IP addresses.
Until bug 3591 is fixed, don't waste your time unless you have two
machines on which to run the different versions.
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JJZolx
Jim
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