[SlimDevices: Beta] Latest v 7 won't start

[Michael Herger]

> I have installed the 2007-09-04 build on my Vista machine.  Slim server
> won't actually start.

What does the Windows event viewer say about it? Do you see it mention the crash of the service?

Can you start it from the command line (slim.exe)?

> The installer doesn't ask me where my music
> files are stored (the 6.5 installer does),

That's by design: there's now a wizard built into slimserver itself which takes into account that slimserver, run as a service, doesn't see the same drives as you do. The installation wizard's selection box often was misleading as it showed eg. mounted network drives which were inaccessible to the server.

> Do I need to do anything special to install on vista (eg Run installer
> as Administrator) -- though that did not seem to help.

Installers should always be run as administrator. SlimServer tries to install itself as a service which is run when Windows starts. Only administrator are allowed to do this.

Michael