LinkStation FreeLink, HOWL, and DAAPD

[haralds]

Not a problem, just a fix:

I noticed that I had a shared server “ghosting” my named music server with a generic linkstation daapd server – that did not connect.

After about an hour of hunting (I have multiple LinkStations, Macs and Windows boxes,) I discovered that FreeLink in its full configuration installs mt-daapd AND howl, and the howl configuration file has its own entry for daapd. Commenting the line in howl fixed the problem.

— Harald

[rpedde]

@haralds wrote:

Not a problem, just a fix:

I noticed that I had a shared server “ghosting” my named music server with a generic linkstation daapd server – that did not connect.

After about an hour of hunting (I have multiple LinkStations, Macs and Windows boxes,) I discovered that FreeLink in its full configuration installs mt-daapd AND howl, and the howl configuration file has its own entry for daapd. Commenting the line in howl fixed the problem.

— Harald

What did you install? I’m assuming it was some kind of metapackage or something, as my freelink install was just a bare “sarge” install.

I’ll add that to the faq, though.

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