It's also possible to run multiple SqueezeCenter servers on the same Windows computer without virtual machines. It takes a little work, but it's doable.
I won't go into all the details, but the basics are: - Bind multiple static IP addresses to the computer's network card. Each server must run on a separate IP address. - Unless you want to run more than one version of SqueezeCenter, you'll only need one installation of the server. - Create a folder for each instance of SqueezeCenter with prefs, cache, logs, music, and playlists subfolders. Ideally, create these outside of the SqueezeCenter program installation folder. Copy your slimserver.prefs file into each prefs folder. - Use shortcuts within the music folders if you want to share any (or all) music folders between SqueezeCenters. Or, just put the separate libraries into each one. It's a lot more flexible to use shortcuts. - Install your own MySQL server and create a database for each instance of SqueezeCenter. Each server needs its own database. They can't all use the installed MySQL as it comes configured with SC, since each one would try to bind to 127.0.0.1. Running your own MySQL server lets you run just one MySQL server and makes it easy to manage all in one place. - Specify the database to use for each instance by editing the slimserver.prefs file in each server's prefs folder. - Also edit the slimserver.prefs file to set the music and playlists folders. - Run each instance of SC server on a separate IP address by using command line options. - Tell each instance of SC server to use its own prefs, cache, and logs folder by using command line options. - If you like, you can run them all as Windows services by using instsrv and srvany from the Resource Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49548 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
