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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Windows => Topic started by: masterjoe on April 30, 2015, 01:44:33 pm

Title: How to start MC server BEFORE any user is logged on?
Post by: masterjoe on April 30, 2015, 01:44:33 pm

So the title says it all. How can MC be started as UI-less server BEFORE the user has been logged on?

I tried it with the taks scheduler (which supports this behavior) ans MC20.exe /MediaServer with no success.
The GUI-driven exe can be started by the the scheduler this way - however when you decide to log in then MC is
corrupted so that no video can be played by MC on that machine anymore.

Putting a link into AutoStart does not work either - because a user must be logged on for this.

So - although there is a service for MC it seems that it's impossible to get MC running before anybody has been logged on?

Title: Re: How to start MC server BEFORE any user is logged on?
Post by: JimH on April 30, 2015, 01:53:00 pm

You can't.  Try auto login in Windows.

Title: Re: How to start MC server BEFORE any user is logged on?
Post by: masterjoe on April 30, 2015, 02:16:07 pm

Why can other DLNA servers do this?

Title: Re: How to start MC server BEFORE any user is logged on?
Post by: JimH on April 30, 2015, 02:53:16 pm

They are smarter and more attractive than we are.

Title: Re: How to start MC server BEFORE any user is logged on?
Post by: Hendrik on April 30, 2015, 03:35:26 pm

If you post useful questions, you get useful answers.
Statements like "but xxx can do it" are rarely useful. Noone said it's categorily impossible, just that it doesn't.

MC cannot do it because its not designed for that, and its unlikely to change.

Title: Re: How to start MC server BEFORE any user is logged on?
Post by: mattkhan on April 30, 2015, 03:42:03 pm

Quote from: Hendrik on April 30, 2015, 03:35:26 pm

MC cannot do it because its not designed for that, and its unlikely to change.

same will apply to the linux version?

Title: Re: How to start MC server BEFORE any user is logged on?
Post by: Hendrik on April 30, 2015, 03:45:35 pm

Quote from: mattkhan on April 30, 2015, 03:42:03 pm

same will apply to the linux version?

Linux is an entirely different OS, you need a X environment, and every process needs a user it runs as.
You can automate startup and login just like we do for the Id though.

Linux is usually better as a multiuser OS though so its probably easier to set something up that runs in the background entirely.