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[simoncn]

(28-05-2013 19:07)mbovaird Wrote:  Still no luck. My NAS is on 192.168.1.x. So I put the ohnet.subnet at 192.168.1.0 (I'm assuming that was right??). I then launch minimwatch and it tries to launch minimserver on my Windows PC (but not the NAS). It just stays yellow and says "starting"....but nothing really happens.

Which machine are you using to run MinimWatch?

MinimWatch doesn't launch MinimServer. It shows you the status of a running instance of MinimServer. If it shows you a yellow icon, this means there is a MinimServer instance on your network that has been launched (by something else) but isn't yet completely started.

If you have a large library, the initial startup can take quite a long time (perhaps a few minutes) because MinimServer is reading all the files in your library. If MinimServer is reading these files across the network (for example, if MinimServer is running on Windows and accessing audio files on a NAS), the startup time could be 10x greater than with local files.

Putting all this together, it sounds like you have a running instance of MinimServer on the PC that's doing a lengthy startup because it's reading audio files from the NAS. To confirm this, you can select 'Show log' from the yellow icon and set the logging level to Verbose.