-Which install file for Minimserver 2 Pi3b+ with Ubuntu

[MDF]

Hi, I have been running Minimserver2 on a linux laptop but now wish to move it to a headless rasberry pi to enable it to be left running. I have 2 questions;

1. Which install file is the correct one for the rasberry pi 3b+ running ubuntu server 20.04.1, arm 64, arm hard float or arm soft float?

2. Is there a guide to installing minimserver2 and minimstreamer on a headless system, I think I can probably install the files with my limited command line skills but I am a bit unsure how to get the files on the pi in the first place? Is the best way to mount the pi home directory to my linux laptop, would that have the right permissions to move a file? I suppose there isn't a remote GUI for ubuntu that I can run on my desktop pc? I have tried loading xubuntu before from my other pi3 which I use as an audio renderer but it would not play with my hdmi monitor which stayed blank. If I can do this headless it would be preferable to a load of monitor troubleshooting first.

I don't want to buy a license until i know I can get all this up and running. I guess I can do that via minimwatch on my pc?

Any help from a pi ubuntu expert would be very much appreciated.

[simoncn]

You need the MinimServer arm64 download.

To install and run MinimServer on a headless RPi, you should login to a terminal window on the RPi using either ssh on your Linux laptop or putty on your Windows PC, then follow the instructions on this page for installing and running MinimServer on a headless system (ignoring everything about graphical desktop).

You need to download the MinimServer install image to your PC or your Linux laptop (the download process requires a web browser). You can then copy the image to the RPi using either putty/pscp (for Windows) or scp (for Linux). There is no need to use a remote desktop GUI or mount a remote directory.

When MinimServer is up and running on the RPi, you can configure and control it from MinimWatch running on either your Windows PC or your Linux laptop.

[MDF]

Thanks for such a quick reply.

[MDF]

Well that went badly. After a lot of error messages I worked out I have ubuntu server 32bit running on the Pi and arm64 was the wrong install file, my fault as I didn't specify in my post. I uninstalled minimserver arm64 and loaded the arm version. All went ok then. It took me ages to get the command line smb share right for my NAS to mount into the designated music library on the pi. I got there in the end but the same code (below) wont load on startup from etc/fstab. Not sure why, does it have to be different?

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.70/ML1 /home/ubuntu/Music/ml1 -o username=admin,password=password,uid=1000,vers=1.0,sec=ntlm

Does the mount path need to be different in fstab?

[simoncn]

I checked the download page for Ubuntu server 20.04.1 and I saw only 64-bit versions. Apologies for the misunderstanding.

If I understand this correctly, you want to use a music library on your NAS accessed remotely from MinimServer running on the RPi. Is there some reason why you don't want to run MinimServer on the NAS?

For mounting CIFS shares using fstab, you might find this article useful.

[MDF]

No problem. It's an old Buffalo linkstation which won't allow it, otherwise I would. Can't replace it at the moment although I would like to get a qnap or something. Instead I have mounted the shares from it into sub directories of the minimserver music directory on the pi using CIFS. It all works ok with bubbleupnp server, android bubbleupnp and my other pi which is on the HIFI as a renderer running an Allo Boss Dac Hat and archphile. What I can't seem to do is get the same shares to load at startup of the pi using commands in etc/fstab.I have to manually do it every time it reboots which is infrequent but annoying. It's the same code in the file that I used manually to load them successfully which is odd. Either fstab is not loading, it's trying to load them before the system can or you have to change the command line somehow. My limited linux knowledge doesn't help here.

[MDF]

I realize this is a linux issue not a minimserver issue of course