Squeezebox & Windows Home Server, anybody done this?

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Hi martin

I've just looked at the spec for that machine and it looks like a bargain. It should certainly do what you want to do........but

why do you want to remove slim from the equation after all its sole aim in life is to look after a squeezebox?????

If it were me then I'd load ubuntu on that server with slimserver, whichever version you like.....its all toatlly free and you're unlikely to get any more performance from anything else.......and why would you want any more performance......fwiw that server is a minimum 30 times more powerful than mine and I have no complaints whatsoever.

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I might be missing something, but how are you going to load a new OS on that?
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Ignore that burst of daftness, the DVD-RW in the title gives it away a bit :-)
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Computer ignoramus here ! :oops:

What do you actually get for your £130 ?

And what would you need to add to get it working with a squeezebox ?

Would it intergrate with my home PC ?

Have i any idea what i'm waffling on about ?
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What do you actually get for your £130
It looks like all of a PC without the display. One you had it set up, it wouldn;t need the display anyway.
And what would you need to add to get it working with a squeezebox ?
Operating system and slimserver, I would (like Ed) put Ubuntu on it.
Would it intergrate with my home PC ?
What do you mean by Intergrate?

Ubuntu would let you use Samba to use it as a file server. You could use it as a web server, email server, just about anything.
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Nick wrote:
What do you mean by Intergrate?
I expect he means "integrate"... :D
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I expect he means "integrate"
I suspected as much :-)

But its still as much a vague question.
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Would it intergrate with my home PC ?
If you mean 'will they make babies' then, No!
but they will have long, boring conversations.
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This is the same PC I use with XP and Slimserver, I think I recommended it a few months back. It's a good machine, fast, quiet and low power.

It come with keyboard and mouse...no OS or monitor...

You could go the linux route and ubunto is a more 'windows user' sympathetic linux than may others :wink: you could go with DSL and use a liveCD to run slimserver or install it straight to HDD:

http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?n ... gorie=slim

WHS....not sure there is any benefit to it for what you need to do.
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