Tony,
Please understand that I respect what you are doing here. My comments in no way were meant to offend. Quite the contrary. My attempts at expressing my opinion in an informative way were misconstrued. I took offense to the tone in this thread that I was a Mac fanboy, a n00b, or otherwise disgruntled. None of these apply to my feeling about what is a really great effort on your part.
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I doubt that you really believe we would advertise a broken feature. The description of NASLite-M2 states as follows: "DAAP clients such as iTunes and other hardware and software-based music players can now stream media from the NASLite-M2 server without the ability to natively mount exported volumes." That feature is not only supported but is fully and stably implemented.
I don't think anyone who goes to this much effort would intentionally advertise a broken feature. However, your contention that M2 is fully and stably implemented causes me to question what your definition of that might be. Since there is no mention in your documentation of how a user goes about implementing the video part of media streaming (I assume you meant video as well as audio or you would have used "audio" in your description instead of "media"), then I would not agree that DAAP is fully (although stably) implemented.
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I think that it is fair to say we've done our due diligence to try and help you out with the problem you posted. Streaming video using DAAP is indeed possible and does work with the current implementation. It may work much better after some work, but it will never be as good as native iTunes.
And the help is appreciated. I do not expect an iTunes clone. But I would hope that the limitations of NASLite-M2 would be either addressed or documented. I was disappointed to find that NL would not stream to Front Row (which uses iTunes as its back end). I understand the problems dealing with a dynamically changing app like iTunes, especially when it seems that Apple is trying to stifle competition by releasing updates designed to break compatibility with 3rd party apps. But, if I understood Ralph correctly, he was aware of the quirks with iTunes 8.0.2 and there was no inclusion of this fact in the user docs that I could find. Nor was there any indication that video streaming would work differently than an iTunes to iTunes share.
I am disappointed that video will not stream without clicking on the album artwork pane or switch to full screen but I can live with the limitations because NL performs great as a NAS and DAAP audio share. I simply took exception to what I perceived as a hostile responses from mikeiver1 and PieterB to my honest posts about the limitations I experienced and lack of adequate documentation explaining those limitations.
On another note: When formatting a storage volume that has NL installed on it, the warning fails to notify that the boot partition will not be reformatted. In fact, I believe it says that all partitions will be removed, leading one to believe that formatting Disk-0 would delete the hard disk installation in the process. I noticed this on both NL-2 and NL-M2. Not a criticism, really. Just might want to make that clear in the next version for those who are new to configuring NASLite. The warning tends to contradict the manual.
Cheers