Well I really must give a big thank you to everyone thats helped me to finally get music streaming here in my office .. now I can happily listen to Zappa all day :-)
I just hope that the IT wrecking crew don't start poking about and tell me to switch it all off. A few points that were not clear when I started this adventure, that did cause me some confusion, so I guess I'll share them here to help others that might try this route. 1) To view your home SlimServer via your tunnel or VPN, TURN off local proxy or such like settings, that sure did waste a few hours of my time. Not sure how I can switch them on/off in IE, but when the system is set up and running you don't need to log onto SS as much. 2) Make sure you actually read the IP of you SlimServer on your home network, I assumed that it was X.X.X.1, but as it turned out it was setup on X.X.X.3 - I should have spotted that sooner, but I don't really understand the wierdness of networks or routers. 3) Load LAME.exe and LAME.DLL into program files\slimserver\server\bin BEFORE you head back to work and trying to stream ... (I must have walked the 500 meters between my office and home 10 times trying to set this up.) 4) When adjusting you bitrate settings, I found I needed to close SoftSqueeze down to make the settings take effect. Couldn't get any headway without a shutdown. 5) If you can't get onto http://HOME_PC:9000 straight away - don't muck about - go for a SSH tunnel, it works and it was the easiest of the options I've had to setup this week (took about an hour) All I need to do now is tag about 1,000 live shows ... and also pray that my misses has actually bought me a SB3 for my birthday (which is this weekend) as I can't tell you how many helpful hints I've dropped this last 2 weeks :-) BT BTW (little plug) check out www.zappateers.com - trust me! -- BigTony ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BigTony's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10638 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33543 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
