Ron -- Yikes, sorry to hear of your problems. I recently switched to a Airport Extreme from an Airport Express, too. I had some dropout problems from my microwave, but once I switched to Channel 1 from automatic, they all went away. I did get some strange crashes a while back, but completely erasing every trace of Slimserver and reinstalling seems to have done the trick. So, now everything is working much better (though I do get the odd crash on my G4, but it restarts almost instantly). I connect a Transporter and a couple of SB3s.
It is hard to say exactly what caused my crashes as I installed a new Airport Extreme, and upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4.10 and Slimserver 6.5.4 all at about the same time (so much for the scientific method!) Here's a couple of things to try... 1) Full erase of Slimserver. Just right clicking on the Slimserver icon in the Systems Preferences pane isn't a couple uninstall -- there are a few other files here and there that need cleaning up. In particular, it seems that the cache files can really muck things up. Here's a list of the files that you need to delete along with deleting the Slimserver icon from the System Preferences. These are all in your home Library directory and you can easily navigate to them:/ [username]/Library/Caches/SlimServer (trash the entire SlimServer folder) [username]/Library/Logs/slimserver.log [username]/Library/Preferences/com.slimdevices.slim.plist [username]/Library/SlimDevices/slimserver.pref But wait to reinstall Slimserver until you have done the following Airport Extreme step... 2) Another problem that you may be having is that you are not getting a static IP address for your iMac G5 (or whatever machine you are running Slimserver on). The Slim players seem to be happiest when the Slimserver always has the same IP address (this may not be strictly necessary, but is safer). Also, you should be sure that you have DHCP set up correctly, too. The AirPort Extreme allocates IP addresses in kind of a strange way (from highest to lowest) -- a big difference from the Airport Express. Start the new AirPort Utility, find your AirPort Exreme and choose manual config. Then select the "Internet" tab at the top of the screen. On the first tab, "Internet Connection", make sure that the bottom drop-down, "Connection Sharing", is set to "Share a public IP address" Then, you need to reserve a static IP address for your iMac G5 (and another for your Powerbook if you ever use that). Since I have three possible servers, I have three reserved address (see attached jpeg). Hit the + under DHCP Reservations, and give a Description (ie. iMac G5) and select reserve address by MAC address. On the next screen, fill in the MAC address of your iMac (you can get this by going to System Preferences-Network-Show AirPort and looking at the AirPort ID). Pick an IP address in range (see the attached JPEG as an example). Save these changes and your Airport Extreme will reboot. To be extra safe, unplug all of your Slim players, and reboot your iMac, too (so it picks up the new IP address). Then reinstall Slimserver (a clean install), then power up your Slim players and run through the network setup so that you can enter the correct new static IP address for the Slimserver. Try this and let me know how it goes... muski +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: AE1.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3307| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- muski SB3->Bryston BP25DA->Bryston 4B SST->Wilson Watt Puppy 7 Transporter via XLR->Headroom Max Balanced Headphone Amp->Balanced AKG701s & HD650s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ muski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38395 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
