Synology installation notes

[magister]

Thanks for the reply, winxi.

Quote:Does this mean that you got this message concerning the reserved port when you tried to upgrade MinimServer?

Yes, I tried to upgrade.

Quote:Basically it should be no problem to uninstall and install MinimServer. It's recommended to upgrade because it requires less clicks and usually shouldn't give this port message.

I didn't actually uninstall, I just stopped MinimServer. When Simon wrote "not recommended" maybe he just meant "not necessary."

Quote: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.

This makes sense. I am not experienced enough with Synology DSM to have realized this beforehand -- the whole Linux permissions business is different from what I'm used to on Windows. Perhaps Simon could add a sentence in the paragraph about giving permissions to the daemon-user about the need to do this even for an upgrade.