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MC without a GUI
Stream:
Bingo. It's working now. I just rebooted as a headless PC and it appeared in MC running on Windows. I can stream audio to it perfectly.
Major step!
bob:
Thanks for the debugging help!
InflatableMouse:
Can I run MC on my server as a service (daemon) and still run the MC client like on Windows? In other words, the client doesn't 'connect' to its local server but opens the local database natively. But MC client isn't needed for serving media to the rest of the network.
Reason I ask is that a daemon can run at a certain runlevel and doesn't require me to login.
bob:
--- Quote from: InflatableMouse on December 05, 2013, 01:06:15 pm ---Can I run MC on my server as a service (daemon) and still run the MC client like on Windows? In other words, the client doesn't 'connect' to its local server but opens the local database natively. But MC client isn't needed for serving media to the rest of the network.
Reason I ask is that a daemon can run at a certain runlevel and doesn't require me to login.
--- End quote ---
The preferences are all user based and when MC is run with the /mediaserver switch from the command line it needs to be run as a user (note the line running it as a user in rc.local in the top post).
If I was going to try to do this, I'd use a different user account for the MC that's going to run as a server only. Configure it so that it's not rendering or controlling and run it from rc.local.
The only caveat with this approach is that an xserver of some kind, real or dummy needs to be running first.
On the MC running as a client you could just turn off the DLNA server and change the base media network port under advanced options to, say, 52198.
InflatableMouse:
But the client frontend then connects to its locally running mediaserver am I understanding that correctly? It would connect as if it were running on another box and stream media.
Also running that way would have the same restrictions with tagging, importing, renaming and moving as it has on Windows with a client connecting to a server which is not handy. How would I deal with that in this situation? Would I have to logout and back in as the user that mediaserver is running under?
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