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Title: Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux / JRiver question
Post by: fataxeman on September 04, 2018, 09:03:28 pm

Hi everyone,
I am getting ready to order a mini pc with Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux on it.  I work on a help desk and am decent on a pc but I know almost nothing about Linux.

We did use command line Unix years ago.  It was a manufacturing application called "the VAX".  Anyway, it was all command line with numbered options but I remember maybe 3 commands from those days.

I have a Linux/Mac/Windows JRiver license.  Will I be able to just "install" JRiver or will I have to do a lot of configuration/setup to install the application?  If there are multiple steps, does anyone have a good resource for beginners?

I have not really searched here and every time I look up anything Linux related, all I am greeted with is programming code.  I am not a programmer.

Hopefully, I am not making a gigantic mistake.

Thanks for your time.

Title: Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux / JRiver question
Post by: Awesome Donkey on September 05, 2018, 03:08:21 am

I'd recommend following the tutorial from here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,115349.0.html

Title: Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux / JRiver question
Post by: fataxeman on September 05, 2018, 11:57:54 am

Thank you for the link.

Title: Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux / JRiver question
Post by: fataxeman on September 07, 2018, 09:39:30 pm

I have followed your instructions and JRiver MC 24 is installed but I cannot get to my media.  I went to Terminal in Ubuntu 18.4 and cannot ping my NAS file server.  It comes back 100% packet loss.  On my Windows machine it is working fine. 

I have used both the file path (name) and the i.p. address and neither work.  In JRiver on a new Azuell Byte 3 that I received today, inside JRiver when I go to Tools>Import>Import A Single Folder, I do a browse and cannot even find the NAS on my local network?

I tried an Auto Import and that did not work either of course.

Any ideas?  I am barely limping around in Ubuntu having no experience with it.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux / JRiver question
Post by: Scobie on September 08, 2018, 02:40:40 am

Have you set up networking on your Linux machine? If not it may not be on the same IP network as the rest of your setup.

Open up a console and type "ipa a" (no quotes) and verify it is on the correct network. If not you'll have to configure the static IP details or point it at the same DHCP server as your Windows machine.

Title: Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux / JRiver question
Post by: Zhillsguy on September 08, 2018, 06:58:34 pm

I haven't used Ubuntu in a while, but have a little laptop here with Lubuntu on it and it runs MC great. I can't browse the network and see my network share (on a Win 10 server) but mount it at boot. You will need to figure out how to "mount" the NAS share at boot. There are different ways of doing it. Through a lot of experimentation I figured out what works for me using the etc/fstab file and it works here with all of the Debian variants.

Do some research on the Ubuntu forums for mounting NAS shares at boot.

Title: Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux / JRiver question
Post by: Awesome Donkey on September 09, 2018, 06:24:04 am

In Ubuntu, there's the Discs app which might help with mounting a NAS (or any hard drive) at boot. Or fstab if you're familiar with it.

Title: Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux / JRiver question
Post by: Scobie on September 09, 2018, 05:12:52 pm

I find fstab works well in Debian. The command to mount for an nfs volume will be:

<ipaddress>:/<folder>   /<sharename>   nfs   rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr

For nfs set up file security on the NAS itself, allowing access from your JR host machine.

Otherwise replace nfs with cifs and setup a user account and password.