Running MinimServer on your QNAP NAS

[simoncn]

(05-06-2012 08:35)psme Wrote:  well... it gets even confusing!

I just got my qnap 212. after setup the buildin twonkymedia server, then of course install minimServer too. The pasted weekend I helped a friend install minimServer on his 210, actually my friend already installed the java component/package so I just install the minimServer, and minimWatch on his PC.

Now I need to install java on my own 212, so I follow the guide on minimServer web. It's very confusing! There are many java versions. The link on minimServer web point to a forum thread, and those posts point to another thread with more posts, and more links! After reading a while my head hurt so I simply follow the first link in the first post, and my java installation seems ok.

I'm going to clean up this part of the MinimServer documentation to make it easier to find the right links for installing Java on the QNAP.

Quote:Then the installation of minimServer package on the qnap is very easy and straight forward.

On my Windows PC, I already has a minimServer running. I only run the minimServer. So after installed everything on the qnap, I figure I need to run minimWatch on the PC. Before running minimWatch, I has 1 minimServer icon in the tray area, which is correct. After I run minimWatch for the first time, I had 4 minimServer icons in tray! All 4 minimServer icons are the same and show as "minimServer". I don't know which is minimServer or minimWatch! Or are they the same?

This is fixed in the next release of MinimServer. Each icon shows the displayName of the MinimServer instance that it's controlling.

Quote:So I open those 4 minimServer icons one by one and 1 shows my qnap server name so I set the contentDir in it and do a "restart" on that icon. Afterward I can browse and play through qnap minimServer so the setup works.

Finally I close all minimServer icons. And run only 1 minimServer (the minimServer on the PC), and 1 minimWatch. The result is 3 minimServer icons in tray. 1 shows the contentDir on my PC, 1 shows the contentDir on the qnap, and the third shows "/Users/tech/Music/flac" in contentDir! In the meanwhile I will just leave it that way...

I don't know where the third icon came from. This path for contentDir sounds like something from Mac OS X. Can you select "About" from this icon to see what host and port it's running on? Is this the same host and/or port as the second icon for the QNAP?