07-09-2014, 22:43
More as an experiment than for immediate production use, I havin installed MinimServer under Ubuntu Linux . I can get it working, thanks to the customarily clear installation instructions, but, with my very basic knowledge of Linux, have encountered a couple of issues.
The machine I am using is a dual boot Windows 8/Ubuntu desktop, and the main music folder is on the NTFS Data drive also used by Windows 8. It can be accessed quite normally in Linux. However, when I first started MinimServer, the folder id logged as invalid. Here is a typical log.
MinimServer 0.8.2 update 42, Copyright © 2012-2014 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_55-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is UTF-8
Language setting is 'eng'
starting MinimServer[Wootton-Ubuntu]
MinimServer: content directory is not valid: /media/david/Data Drive/Music
Language setting is 'eng'
starting MinimServer[Wootton-Ubuntu]
MinimServer[Wootton-Ubuntu] is running
The only thing that happened been the unsuccessful start and the successful one was that I accessed the music folder (without difficulty) in the Ubuntu File manager. What was happening was that the NTFS drive was not mounted by default at boot time, but was only mounted when the file manager accessed it. Fortunately, there is a very good Ubuntu help page on this issue, and with that and a bit of patience, I was able to get the drive to mount automatically on startup, and so resolve the problem. In the course of this process the drive mount point (which is essentially a file path) changed slightly, so I changed the contentDir setting in MinimServer to suit. MinimServer now boots with Linux, and can be accessed through MinimWatch on other machines on the network. So that problem is solved; I mention it in case someone else encounters similar difficulties.
My other problem is probably even simpler to fix, but I haven't figured it out yet. Initially, I decided to run MinimServer 'headless' under Linux (to simulate what I would do if I built my own server). I would now like to use startd rather than startc, but I haven't worked out which configuration file I need to change. The minimserver/bin/setup program simply says that desktop integration is not available, and does not give an option to change this. I'd be grateful for a pointer on this one.
David
The machine I am using is a dual boot Windows 8/Ubuntu desktop, and the main music folder is on the NTFS Data drive also used by Windows 8. It can be accessed quite normally in Linux. However, when I first started MinimServer, the folder id logged as invalid. Here is a typical log.
MinimServer 0.8.2 update 42, Copyright © 2012-2014 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_55-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is UTF-8
Language setting is 'eng'
starting MinimServer[Wootton-Ubuntu]
MinimServer: content directory is not valid: /media/david/Data Drive/Music
Language setting is 'eng'
starting MinimServer[Wootton-Ubuntu]
MinimServer[Wootton-Ubuntu] is running
The only thing that happened been the unsuccessful start and the successful one was that I accessed the music folder (without difficulty) in the Ubuntu File manager. What was happening was that the NTFS drive was not mounted by default at boot time, but was only mounted when the file manager accessed it. Fortunately, there is a very good Ubuntu help page on this issue, and with that and a bit of patience, I was able to get the drive to mount automatically on startup, and so resolve the problem. In the course of this process the drive mount point (which is essentially a file path) changed slightly, so I changed the contentDir setting in MinimServer to suit. MinimServer now boots with Linux, and can be accessed through MinimWatch on other machines on the network. So that problem is solved; I mention it in case someone else encounters similar difficulties.
My other problem is probably even simpler to fix, but I haven't figured it out yet. Initially, I decided to run MinimServer 'headless' under Linux (to simulate what I would do if I built my own server). I would now like to use startd rather than startc, but I haven't worked out which configuration file I need to change. The minimserver/bin/setup program simply says that desktop integration is not available, and does not give an option to change this. I'd be grateful for a pointer on this one.
David