(11-01-2013 16:00)Wammer Wrote:  I have ordered a QNAP TS-219PII which arrives tomorrow. I currently run MinimServer on my iMac with my music collection on an attached FireWire HDD (an arrangement I intend to retain as an instant 'backup' solution should the QNAP ever fail). However, I have no experience either of QNAPs or of installing MinimServer on a NAS.

Quote:I have read the instructions on the website and it seems a straightforward process, but I do have a couple of minor queries ahead of the installation. Firstly, The instructions specify the Public folder as the download location for the JRE QPKG, but I am not clear as to where I download the MinimServer installation package.

Quote:Secondly, can I install MinimWatch on my iMac ahead of the QNAP MinimServer installation, and will it interfere with my existing iMac installation of MinimServer?

(12-01-2013 13:42)Wammer Wrote:  Thanks for that, Simon.

While waiting for my disks to arrive I have been downloading the files needed to install Java on the QNAP, and I was wondering whether I should install the JRE6 or JRE7 file, or whether it makes absolutely no difference? I notice the JRE7 version link differs very slightly from the name on your website - "...SoftFP ABI..." rather than just "...SoftFP...". I presume that this is fine but after reading the horror stories from people who have installed an incorrect version I have become somewhat paranoid.

I think Oracle have may have changed their procedure for downloading the files. I wasn't asked to complete a survey and wait for a link to be emailed - I simply had to click a radio button accepting the licence agreement and was then able to download the file.

(15-01-2013 12:10)Wammer Wrote:  Simon

MinimServer is up and running on my new QNAP, but on checking the log I found a number of error messages saying

"Error: incorrect FLAC header 0x00051607 at offset 0 in file......"

and one message saying

"Error: unexpected end of file at offset 333319 in file......"

What do these this mean, and how do I fix them?

Wammer.

(15-01-2013 12:59)simoncn Wrote:  

(15-01-2013 12:10)Wammer Wrote:  Simon

MinimServer is up and running on my new QNAP, but on checking the log I found a number of error messages saying

"Error: incorrect FLAC header 0x00051607 at offset 0 in file......"

and one message saying

"Error: unexpected end of file at offset 333319 in file......"

What do these this mean, and how do I fix them?

Wammer.

It would help to know what the ....... was.

My guess is that these filenames all start with ':2e' and are 4096 bytes long. If so, these files are created by Mac OS X to hold some Apple metadata and are copied to the QNAP when you copy files from the Mac to the QNAP using the AFP protocol. The files aren't visible to programs that are accessing the QNAP as a remote share, but they are visible to programs running directly on the QNAP. They aren't audio files, but MinimServer thinks they are audio files because they end with extensions like .flac etc.

You need to delete these files from the QNAP and stop them coming back again. You can find more information and some suggestions for how to fix this in this thread.

I haven't come across this problem myself, but a few users have been affected by it. If you're able to work out how the files were copied across originally, and how to stop this happening again, I'd appreciate knowing this so that I can add something to the MinimServer user guide.

(15-01-2013 15:51)Wammer Wrote:  The problem will have occurred because I copied the files across from the drive attached to my Mac. From now on I will make changes to the QNAP files and sync the changes in the other direction across to the Mac drive, but i guess I may have to do some housekeeping from time to time.