Try disabling the XP firewall. Turn it off completely. See if the problem goes away. If so, then the firewall is the issue. Do you need it? If you are behind a router, chances are you don't...

Jon

i tried disabling the firewall completely and still ahd the problem. I should mention that sometimes the music stops and the entire program hangs. I am using Wireless-G network. I ran the Slim Server network test at 3000kbps with the below results indicating that the network dosen't support that bit rate.
< 10 : 2 : 0%
< 20 : 3 : 0%
< 30 : 0 : 0%
< 40 : 1 : 0%
< 50 : 2 : 0%
< 60 : 0 : 0%
< 70 : 0 : 0%
< 75 : 2 : 0%
< 80 : 2 : 0%
< 85 : 3 : 0%
< 90 : 11 : 1%
< 95 : 151 : 14% ######
< 100 : 838 : 76% ######################################
>=100 : 81 : 7% ###
max : 100.000000
min : 2.097902
avg : 96.029735

I am rerunning the test at 500kbps overnight. So far it has run for several minutes with no dropouts. Perhaps my problems are due to intermittent connection errors. Unfortunately there is no way torun a wire between my server and the PB without major reconstruction.

Try a powerline adapater. SlingMedia has come out with their Sling Link Turbo: http://us.slingmedia.com/page/slinglink_turbo.html

It has 4 e-net ports on one side for devices like the Photobridge, and other things. Then on the other side it has a single port for connecting to your router. Works over your house wiring.

Wireless is always iffy unless he signal strength is really good. Just because you have a "G" network doesn't mean you are linked at 54 Mb/sec.

Jon

Update to my challange...
I now am able to run WMC and SS 6.5.x on the same PC w/o crashing. What I have to do it open a "CMD" window (Start-Run-"CMD") and then launch slim server with the switch --noupnp and it works great. YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE CMD window open for it to work.

So inmy case I typed
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe --noupnp

Hope this is helpful to someone, matt

Burkhardi wrote:

Update to my challange...
I now am able to run WMC and SS 6.5.x on the same PC w/o crashing. What I have to do it open a "CMD" window (Start-Run-"CMD") and then launch slim server with the switch --noupnp and it works great. YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE CMD window open for it to work.

So inmy case I typed
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe --noupnp

Hope this is helpful to someone, matt

Hrmm.. wonder why it didn't work when I tried it before. Take a look at this post for a way to potentially run it without needing the cmd window: http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.php?p=60148#60148

TheEndless

TheEndless wrote:

Burkhardi wrote:

Update to my challange...
I now am able to run WMC and SS 6.5.x on the same PC w/o crashing. What I have to do it open a "CMD" window (Start-Run-"CMD") and then launch slim server with the switch --noupnp and it works great. YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE CMD window open for it to work.

So inmy case I typed
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe --noupnp

Hope this is helpful to someone, matt

Hrmm.. wonder why it didn't work when I tried it before. Take a look at this post for a way to potentially run it without needing the cmd window: http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.php?p=60148#60148

TheEndless

You may have done what I did wrong the first time. I had the switch running off of SlimTray and it will not work that way. Perhaps that was it?
I'll check that post out too, thanks!!

For those still keeping score, SlimServer 6.5.2 came out of beta and went mainstream.

i've been running with SlimRoku 1.6b all day and its working fine, no lockups or anything.

Burkhardi wrote:

So inmy case I typed
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe --noupnp

Hey Matt,
Have you tried just modifying the "Target" line (right-click, Properties) under the icon you use to launch SlimServer? Seems to me you should just be able to add the --noupnp to that line rather than having the pain of launching it via a CMD box. And if that worked, then you can add that to your Startup folder and it would launch that way at every boot of your machine.

mjt5282 wrote:

SlimServer 6.5.2 came out of beta and went mainstream.

Well dang, after I just went through the pain of getting the 5/22/07 nightly of 6.5.2 to run on my Mandriva box...

mjt5282 wrote:

i've been running with SlimRoku 1.6b all day and its working fine, no lockups or anything.

Cool! Just wish my PB wasn't dead right now...

The latest build of SlimServer seems to have fixed the issue with WMC causing SlimServer to crash if SlimServer is running on a PC running WMC.

Regards, Matt

Hi The Endless,
I’m having a problem that hopefully you can help me solve. I’m running Roku 2.0.36, SlimServer 6.5.4 and have tried 3.7, 3.6 & 3.5 versions of SlimRoku and have the same problem all 3 versions. On-screen Roku has the SlimRoku icon but when I select it, it takes several minutes to load. When it finally comes up it is functionless with no song info. I have had this working properly in the past. When it was working properly, when selecting SlimRoku, it loaded within a few seconds.
The problem started when I moved my drive with the shared music folder from my lap to my desk top. I have uninstalled and reinstalled SlimRoku, selected the folder in the new location from Roku and rebooted computers and Roku but have not been able to get this to work. Any help is appreciated.

Are you using a REV-A or REV-B unit? If it's a REV-A can you confirm that there is a swap file running when you goto System Info Via Setup in the built in menu?
SlimRoku's lastest build is 1.6beta (before that was 1.5beta3 and 1.5beta2 and 1.5beta1).
Have you always used fw 2.0.36 or did you run 2.0.35 before this?

On the other PC, do you have SlimServer running? I wonder if SlimRoku can't see the server?

Gregavi wrote:

Hi The Endless,
I’m having a problem that hopefully you can help me solve. I’m running Roku 2.0.36, SlimServer 6.5.4 and have tried 3.7, 3.6 & 3.5 versions of SlimRoku and have the same problem all 3 versions. On-screen Roku has the SlimRoku icon but when I select it, it takes several minutes to load. When it finally comes up it is functionless with no song info. I have had this working properly in the past. When it was working properly, when selecting SlimRoku, it loaded within a few seconds.
The problem started when I moved my drive with the shared music folder from my lap to my desk top. I have uninstalled and reinstalled SlimRoku, selected the folder in the new location from Roku and rebooted computers and Roku but have not been able to get this to work. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for the reply. Here's my update. My mistake on the SlimRoku version on my previous post, I am running Roku 2.0.36, SlimServer 6.5.4 and SlimRoku 1.6. When I try to start SlimRoku from my desktop it says ‘please wait’ for about 2 minutes and it will finally load but there is no function, songs are not loaded even though SlimServer has loaded songs. Then SlimRoku will shut off and the menu screen with the “SlimRokuâ€

Tuff one..
You said you were able to start and use SlimRoku on your laptop, I assume you mean SlimServer or do you have a remote UI for the HD1000 on the laptop?

lets back track, it was working at one time, what have you changed since then? Were you running the 2.0.36 firmware then too?
I would try (if not already) to assign your HD1000 a static IP address, but you should not have too, I use some of my HD1000 in DHCP mode and SlimRoku works fine.
You might also try to use firmware 2.0.35 and see what you get, but that will erase everythign and you ahve to start over as far as setting and such on the HD1000. Can the built in player on the HD1000 (called "listen") play music off the shares?

You kept the file structure the same in the folders (slimroku) right?

I can try to kill SlimServer tonight on my PC running it, and then try to run SlimROku on the HD1000 and see if I see what you are seeing or what.

[quote="Gregavi"]Thanks for the reply. Here's my update. My mistake on the SlimRoku version on my previous post, I am running Roku 2.0.36, SlimServer 6.5.4 and SlimRoku 1.6. When I try to start SlimRoku from my desktop it says ‘please wait’ for about 2 minutes and it will finally load but there is no function, songs are not loaded even though SlimServer has loaded songs. Then SlimRoku will shut off and the menu screen with the “SlimRokuâ€

Hey Thanks Burkhardi. I solved the problem. It was firewalls. When I shut down my Zone Alarm FW I didn't realize the windows FW would startup automatically.

Thanks again.