[Announce] SlimNAS 0.1 - SlimServer on FreeNAS

[mjb152]

Hi,

I've installed freenas, slimnas and it all seems to work ok.

I have the Nas box connected to an adsl modem/router with 3 other PC's and a squeezebox, and Nas works fine.

The squeezebox is working ok for my music, but all internet radio stations failed.

I changed the IP from DHCP to a static IP address, added my modem router as the default gateway, also entered that as my DNS server .. and I still get the errors below.

The strange thing is that some internet radio stations work, whilst others don't.

For the 3 pc's connected to the modem router, the DNS works perfectly, I've no problems at all.

Does anyone have a similar setup to this and can advise how I should configure this to make the radio stations work ?

Martin

Slim server log file
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2007-05-02 10:04:01.9383 There was an error while checking for updates to SlimServer:
Failed to connect to http://update.slimdevices.com/update...=6.5.1&lang=EN (Couldn't resolve IP address for: update.slimdevices.com)

2007-05-02 12:27:35.4196 ERROR: Async: Couldn't resolve IP address for: www.slimdevices.com

2007-05-02 12:28:39.2206 ERROR: Async: Couldn't resolve IP address for: www.slimdevices.com

2007-05-02 12:29:30.7010 Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x854481c.
2007-05-02 12:30:53.3449 UPnP: Error adding multicast membership, UPnP may not work properly: Protocol not available
2007-05-02 12:30:53.3725 UPnP: Error setting multicast TTL: Protocol not available
Usage: mDNSResponderPosix [-v level ] [-r] [-n name] [-t type] [-d domain] [-p port] [-f file] [-b] [-P pidfile] [-x name=val ...]
-v verbose mode, level is a number from 0 to 2
0 = no debugging info (default)
1 = standard debugging info
2 = intense debugging info
can be cycled kill -USR1
-r also bind to port 53 (port 5353 is always bound)
-n uses 'name' as the service name (required)
-t uses 'type' as the service type (default is '_afpovertcp._tcp.')
-d uses 'domain' as the service domain (default is 'local.')
-p uses 'port' as the port number (default is '548')
-f reads a service list from 'file'
-b forces daemon (background) mode
-P uses 'pidfile' as the PID file
(default is '/var/run/mDNSResponder.pid')
only meaningful if -b also specified
-x stores name=val in TXT record (default is empty).
MUST be the last command-line argument;
all subsequent arguments after -x are treated as name=val pairs.
mDNSResponderPosix: Unexpected argument '/mnt/nas3/slimnas/var/slimserver/mDNS.conf'
Usage: mDNSResponderPosix [-v level ] [-r] [-n name] [-t type] [-d domain] [-p port] [-f file] [-b] [-P pidfile] [-x name=val ...]
-v verbose mode, level is a number from 0 to 2
0 = no debugging info (default)
1 = standard debugging info
2 = intense debugging info
can be cycled kill -USR1
-r also bind to port 53 (port 5353 is always bound)
-n uses 'name' as the service name (required)
-t uses 'type' as the service type (default is '_afpovertcp._tcp.')
-d uses 'domain' as the service domain (default is 'local.')
-p uses 'port' as the port number (default is '548')
-f reads a service list from 'file'
-b forces daemon (background) mode
-P uses 'pidfile' as the PID file
(default is '/var/run/mDNSResponder.pid')
only meaningful if -b also specified
-x stores name=val in TXT record (default is empty).
MUST be the last command-line argument;
all subsequent arguments after -x are treated as name=val pairs.
mDNSResponderPosix: Unexpected argument '/mnt/nas3/slimnas/var/slimserver/mDNS.conf'

[supertrogg]

I have installed slimnas 0.4. Whilst the streaming to a squeezebox 3 is fine, streaming over the internet isnt. Mostly songs are cut short after about 3 seconds of playing. This length sometimes can be as long as most of a track or less but is totally random. The selection of those songs is also random as it jumps backwards and forwards through the playlist. The playlist isnt a stored one just the one created by selecting to play an album.
freeNAS/slimNAS is running on a VIA VB6002 with a Pentium-M 1.86Ghz and 1Gb of RAM. freeNAS is installed on an IDE flash module. Music is on an IDE HDD. All music is flac so LAME is being used over the internet.
Anyone any ideas what may be going wrong?

[curly]

Hey all!

Really fantastic work, Michael. So far SlimNas (SlimServer_v6.5.2) on FreeNas 0.685b seems to work even better than Slimserver on my Ubuntu LAMP server, although, the Ubuntu issues could very well be due to a bajillion possible bad things in my Ubuntu install likely caused by me.

The main issue with SlimNas is trying to figure out how to get Sox to work. Sometimes .ogg's don't play and the (music)server stalls. I have to go back to the web page and skip or stop and restart but eventually it finds something to play. The same with certain mp3's. Monkey's support would also be really neat but I'm not holding my breath on that one. It seems it should be easy enough, though.

I'm building a FreeBSD box almost just for the purpose of compiling other audio packages to slip into the SlimNas directory. I don't even know if this is going to help or hurt but I'm learning something while maybe moving the LAMP over to FreeBSD in the process.

I'd appreciate any suggestions, comments, questions, insults, etc. as I feel like a one-legged man in a sack race.

Thanks for all the great contribs!

curly

[lafontaj]

I have read all the messages here, some of you had the same problem.

I have reinstall many time in different configuration and the slimnas is still not working. The integration in freenas is ok.

the last thing i have tried is in the advanced tab of the freenas the option startup,

i have copied this:
/usr/local/bin/php -f /mnt/data/slimnas/usr/www/services_slimserver_init.php

to the command in diagnostic and i executed it, i have as result:

$ /usr/local/bin/php -f /mnt/data/slimnas/usr/www/services_slimserver_init.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.1
Content-type: text/html


Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=24) state=1 in /usr/local/bin/php on line 998

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /usr/local/bin/php on line 998


Now i dont know where to look, please i really want it to work properly.

My system:
p4 P4PE
1 pata 30 gigs for the os
4 sata 300 (try it softraid and standalone)
1 promise sata tx4300 raid controller (the raid was working right)
1 LG dvd writer (3 differents download of freenas burn on 2 different writer with nero and alcohol 120)

I have reinstall everything 8 times.

I thing i will go back to ubuntu soon...



Sorry for my bad english.

[lafontaj]

Problem resolved,

When doing the download from IExplorer, it try to rename slimnas.tgz to slimnas.tar

I then change the name back to .tgz and continue the download. The download ended ok but i did not notice that the size of the file was a lot smaller than it should be.

When i realized that, i download again the file but i did not change the name that Iexplorer just put .tar.

After the download i change the extention back to .tgz and i verified that the size was now ok.

I then reinstall the slimnas on the freenas and now everything is going well..

The only problem i have is that i want the time and date in french on the squeezebox but it show only in english even if the slimserver is set to french.

do you have a solution?

[Furry]

Hi

I've just installed Slimserver on my freeNAS, on which I have a 150GB RAID (I'm wondering if I 'needed' to buy a Qnap after all, although the old PIII I'm running freeNAS on is a bit noisy).

It runs fine, I can browse to the SS web interface, and I can listen to internet radio etc. from my SB3.

But, I can't get SS to recognise a music folder, wherever I put it - it doesn't recognise any directories as valid. I'm confused re. where to put this, and how to describe the path it so that SS will find it.

My freenas is called 'freenas', and I have the structure /NAS/slimnas/slimserver.

TIA,
Dave.

[lafontaj]

You must tell slimserver to look in your mount point.

the root folder of my data disk start at Musique but the mount point start /mnt/zoneraid5 you have to tell slimserver to look in the mount point not the folder of the disk.

My share name is "zoneraid5"

so my mount point is: /mnt/zoneraid5

and my music slimserver directory is /mnt/zoneraid5/Musique/slimserver

and my playlist directory is /mnt/zoneraid5/Musique/slimserver/playlist

in the directory slimserver i put all the subdirectory that i want to be seen by the slimserver

i hope that it will help!

[Furry]

You must tell slimserver to look in your mount point.

the root folder of my data disk start at Musique but the mount point start /mnt/zoneraid5 you have to tell slimserver to look in the mount point not the folder of the disk.

My share name is "zoneraid5"

so my mount point is: /mnt/zoneraid5

and my music slimserver directory is /mnt/zoneraid5/Musique/slimserver

and my playlist directory is /mnt/zoneraid5/Musique/slimserver/playlist

in the directory slimserver i put all the subdirectory that i want to be seen by the slimserver

i hope that it will help!

Thanks

This is what I have:

$ mount
/dev/md0 on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/mirror/MyRAID on /mnt/NAS (ufs, local, soft-updates, acls)
/dev/ad0a on /cf (ufs, local, read-only)

It seems I was confused about what mount points / shares I had. Then I remembered that I can issue commands (like above) to FreeNAS. I have a folder /NAS/My Music, which I've entered as /mnt/NAS/My Music, and that works.

I find that my FreeNAS with Slimnas (PIII with 384MB) is faster than the Qnap (though bigger and noisier). I'm now a bit 'torn' over which to put all my music on...

BTW, thank you Michael!

Dave.

[lafontaj]

Hi

I've just installed Slimserver on my freeNAS, on which I have a 150GB RAID (I'm wondering if I 'needed' to buy a Qnap after all, although the old PIII I'm running freeNAS on is a bit noisy).

It runs fine, I can browse to the SS web interface, and I can listen to internet radio etc. from my SB3.

But, I can't get SS to recognise a music folder, wherever I put it - it doesn't recognise any directories as valid. I'm confused re. where to put this, and how to describe the path it so that SS will find it.

My freenas is called 'freenas', and I have the structure /NAS/slimnas/slimserver.

TIA,
Dave.

Everything is working well exept the internet radio, i'm unable to connect with freenas but it working fine with my server running on UBUNTU. I put the DNS ISP IP but it still not work.

Please help me the freeNAS interface is great and everything else is working great.

[mherger]

> Everything is working well exept the internet radio, i'm unable to
> connect with freenas but it working fine with my server running on
> UBUNTU. I put the DNS ISP IP but it still not work.

Make sure you've correctly configured the gateway in FreeNAS as well. IMHO there's still a problem setting it using DHCP. Just make sure everything (address, mask, DNS, gateway) is set up in FreeNAS.

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4152389

Michael