Malechai Veteran Posted May 2, 2003 Veteran Share Posted May 2, 2003 I don't have windows 2003 but I do have a question regarding the windows media 9 services in it. Maybe it's basic but.. With these services, are you able to use the box to stream music? (along the lines of a radio station I guess) If so, how do you go about it and set it up? Along those same lines, what are the minimum req's for 2003 server? My gf's old compaq is sitting around doing nothing but its pretty weak on ram and CPU power. if i had to guess i'd say its around a p2 300 with 128mb RAM (if that) is there any way I could get win2003 installed on that just to use it exclusively as a music streaming box? PS. hope this is more along the lines of what xstaindx wants to see in this forum lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted May 3, 2003 Veteran Share Posted May 3, 2003 first of all, thanks for asking a question actually relating to the "server" part of the OS. ;) yes, WMS (windows media services) streams asf (same as wma/wmv, just different extension) or mp3 files. for a "radio station" you would want to run a multicast (as opposed to unicast, which is one connection for each person) publishing point. this means that the server is sending out the music constantly. when someone connects to the "station," it just adds their ip to the list of multicast addresses that pick up the signal. play with it for a day and you'll have figured out most of the stuff. with a machine like that, you could run a broadcast (multicast) publishing point, but i might get some more ram. and you need a fast upload connection to the internet too (of course). if you disable all services that you don't need and the only server role is a WMS server, it should run fine on that machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicYouthXY Posted May 3, 2003 Share Posted May 3, 2003 i think if you go to the microsoft site for windows server 2003 you can get the system requirements. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003...qs/default.mspx if you just want to run it as a media server (wchich does require IIS 6 and some ASP components) i would think you can get the web edition. with the other versions, just configure windows server 2003 using the Application Server and Streaming Media Server roles. you can additionally use the DNS Server and Domain Controller roles if you need these servers. sonic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted May 3, 2003 Veteran Share Posted May 3, 2003 WMS does not need iis, though if you want to have users access the station through asx files, they will have to be stored on that server or another one. the asx file(s) point to the WMS server through the MMS or RTSP protocol. and as far as i know, windows server 2003 web edition does NOT have WMS in it. of course, there is always tweaknt... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malechai Veteran Posted May 4, 2003 Author Veteran Share Posted May 4, 2003 thx for the valuable info gameguy. i've copied your post into a txt file so that i can refer to it later when i try to get all this setup :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted May 4, 2003 Veteran Share Posted May 4, 2003 glad i could help :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowdart Posted May 4, 2003 Share Posted May 4, 2003 i think if you go to the microsoft site for windows server 2003 you can get the system requirements.http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003...qs/default.mspx if you just want to run it as a media server (wchich does require IIS 6 and some ASP components) i would think you can get the web edition. Win2003 Web does NOT include the streaming software. Nor does the Windows Media server need IIS installed, or ASP (in fact running IIS on a WM server is not a good idea if you want HTTP streaming) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted May 4, 2003 Share Posted May 4, 2003 Spyder, go install the Enterprise Eval, you'll be able to use WMP9 Services. IIS is only required if you want to do web administration to the WMP9 Service configuration from a remote location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted May 4, 2003 Veteran Share Posted May 4, 2003 For WMS Component Requirement / Recommendation Operating system Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition or Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition Processor 233 megahertz (MHz) 550 MHz or higher Memory 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM or higher Network interface card Ethernet card and Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Same Free hard disk space 21 MB (6 MB for system files and 15 MB for installation); adequate disk space for content storage 21 MB (6 MB for system files and 15 MB for installation); 500 MB for content storage IIS is only required if you want to do web administration to the WMP9 Service configuration from a remote location. If you're using multicast (which is common) then you need IIS installed. The multicast and advertisement logging agent is an IIS application extension that uses the Wmsiislog.dll to collect information from players. This Wmsiislog.dll is installed in the %systemdrive%\WMPub\Wmiislog folder. If you don't have IIS installed then no logging and advertising can take place. As for Administering Windows Media Services for the web that requires an SSL certificate for secure transmission of data and IIS combined with ASP enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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