by captain paranoia » Thu Nov 06, 2014 5:59 pm
Thanks for the additional responses. It's interesting that it tries to look for A&B, since File Monitoring is turned off, and I can't think if any other setting that would make it keep looking for drives, other than where the library is held. And there's nothing in the library on A:...
There's only one account on this PC: 'User', which is also Admin. I used this account to install MM, and used this MM to install the Server, using the Tools/Options/MediaServing dialogue. I gave it the User password.
The MediaMonkeyService.exe is running when MMW UI is not running; it's visible using Task Manager, and the Computer Management Tool. This seems to suggest that the service is installed correctly, and has the correct password.
I added a Windows Firewall Exception for both MediaMonkey.exe and MediaMonkeyService.exe, and those permissions are both active. This allows the tasks to communicate with devices on the network, and not get blocked by the Firewall; I discovered the need to do this quite early on this week. It seems a pretty essential step, but that may be a legacy in XP, and it may be managed better on more recent Windows.
MMW UI runs as a task owned by User, as is to be expected, since the UI version is launched from a logged in User account.
When MMW UI isn't running, MMW and MMS are running as tasks owned by SYSTEM. Since they're services, this is what I'd expect them to run as (just as the iPodService and AppleMobileDeviceService run as SYSTEM tasks). SYSTEM tasks ought to be available to all users, I think.
In CM/S, I enabled the 'Allow service to interact with Desktop', and re-started the service. This brought up a 'clean' version of MMW UI... Not what I wanted, so I turned that setting off, and re-started the Service.
The ultimate goal for this is to understand how to make MMS run standalone on an XP platform, and then install it on a small, Atom-based XP Embedded device that will run all the time and act as a music server. It's rather galling that there are two other Media Servers on the network; a Twonky server in the WD NAS I have (bough mainly as a cheap 4TB disk), and a server on the router provided by my ISP (A Technicolor 582n, which seems to be pretty capable). Sadly, the Twonky server doesn't seem to talk to anything, and the router server only serves media from a USB port, and only seems to support FAT32, with NTFS as an 'option' which doesn't seem to be installed on mine... FAT32's 4GB file size limit doesn't sound a good idea for a media server... I my end up buying a 4TB USB disk, formatting it as FAT32 64KB clusters, sticking it on the router, and ditching the WD NAS, or relegating it to backup, as the router seems to be able to do just about everything the NAS does. The problem of impulse buys and not planning acquisitions...
Thanks for the additional responses. It's interesting that it tries to look for A&B, since File Monitoring is turned off, and I can't think if any other setting that would make it keep looking for drives, other than where the library is held. And there's nothing in the library on A:...
There's only one account on this PC: 'User', which is also Admin. I used this account to install MM, and used this MM to install the Server, using the Tools/Options/MediaServing dialogue. I gave it the User password.
The MediaMonkeyService.exe is running when MMW UI is not running; it's visible using Task Manager, and the Computer Management Tool. This seems to suggest that the service is installed correctly, and has the correct password.
I added a Windows Firewall Exception for both MediaMonkey.exe and MediaMonkeyService.exe, and those permissions are both active. This allows the tasks to communicate with devices on the network, and not get blocked by the Firewall; I discovered the need to do this quite early on this week. It seems a pretty essential step, but that may be a legacy in XP, and it may be managed better on more recent Windows.
MMW UI runs as a task owned by User, as is to be expected, since the UI version is launched from a logged in User account.
When MMW UI isn't running, MMW and MMS are running as tasks owned by SYSTEM. Since they're services, this is what I'd expect them to run as (just as the iPodService and AppleMobileDeviceService run as SYSTEM tasks). SYSTEM tasks ought to be available to all users, I think.
In CM/S, I enabled the 'Allow service to interact with Desktop', and re-started the service. This brought up a 'clean' version of MMW UI... Not what I wanted, so I turned that setting off, and re-started the Service.
The ultimate goal for this is to understand how to make MMS run standalone on an XP platform, and then install it on a small, Atom-based XP Embedded device that will run all the time and act as a music server. It's rather galling that there are two other Media Servers on the network; a Twonky server in the WD NAS I have (bough mainly as a cheap 4TB disk), and a server on the router provided by my ISP (A Technicolor 582n, which seems to be pretty capable). Sadly, the Twonky server doesn't seem to talk to anything, and the router server only serves media from a USB port, and only seems to support FAT32, with NTFS as an 'option' which doesn't seem to be installed on mine... FAT32's 4GB file size limit doesn't sound a good idea for a media server... I my end up buying a 4TB USB disk, formatting it as FAT32 64KB clusters, sticking it on the router, and ditching the WD NAS, or relegating it to backup, as the router seems to be able to do just about everything the NAS does. The problem of impulse buys and not planning acquisitions...