How to: Installing Squeezecenter 7.2 on Windows Home Server
These step by step instructions will allow you to install Squeezecenter, the software that streams digital music to Logitech’s Squeezebox range of players, on a Windows Home Server. The hardware in question was a Tranquil PC T7-HSAi but any WHS will do.
1. Use MSDTC to connect as Administrator to your WHS.
2. Download the latest version of the software from here. You want the Windows 2000/XP/Vista version. You should save it on the Desktop of the server. If you don’t you will need to unblock it by right clicking on the file and selecting ‘Unblock’
3. Run the .exe, ignore the security warning.
4. Just keep the defaults for everything i.e. keep selecting ‘Next’. There are some opinions around that say don’t install anything on the C: drive, but it’s small enough not to matter.
5. Select All Programs, Squeezecenter, Squeezecenter startup option from the Start menu. Select ‘Start Squeezecenter automatically…’ and enter ‘Administrator’ as the user and your administrator password. This will allow Squeezecenter to run as a service so will be available when you log off.
6. You can now log off the WHS. If you try and run Squeezecenter using IE on the server, you will get errors as IE is running in a secure restricted mode.
7. Use the browser on your PC to point to http://<WHS name>:9000
8. The setup wizard should start, just follow it through, pointing the Local Music Folder to ‘D:\shares\music’ which appears as Music under shared folders on your PC. Any music in there will then be scanned and added to the library.
9. Connect your hardware i.e Duet, Classic etc. and point it to the WHS.
That should be it. The only reason you should need to log back into the WHS via MSTSC is to do an upgrade, which is exactly the same process as this minus a few configuration steps.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
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