Synology installation notes

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(21-12-2013 04:45)magister Wrote:  I'm posting these notes in case they help other Synology users get 8.1 running.

Hi, thanks for sharing your experiences!

Quote:As mentioned in the instructions, I received the message about port 9790 not being available. However, the recommended solutions, to wait and then restart if necessary, did not work (despite multiple attempts). I saw that it was "not recommended" to stop or uninstall a previous installation of MinimServer, but I decided to try this since I was getting nowhere. Stopping the server in the Package Center immediately freed up the port.

Does this mean that you got this message concerning the reserved port when you tried to upgrade MinimServer?
Basically it should be no problem to uninstall and install MinimServer. It's recommended to upgrade because it requires less clicks and usually shouldnt't give this port message.

Quote:I initially got directory read errors after upgrading. It turned out that I had to go into Control Panel/User and reset the privileges for the minimserver daemon--these access privileges, which I had set for the previous version, did not survive the upgrade. A restart of MinimServer in the Package Center was then required to get things working right.

When you uninstall/install or upgrade MinimServer, the minimserver daemon-user is deleted and recreated with default privilleges. So, if you have your music in a directory which is not accessible by all users, you have to set the special privileges for the minimserver user again.