How to: Run scanner on a separate hardware

> The goal is to avoid the scanneg 'hog' the server on poor hardware and
> big libraries, in an ideal world I would like to have only the
> streaming server running on 'main' system, the library management
> (database, web server and scanner) on another (I.e. the NAS). Don't know
> if it's possible, but al least scanner should be.

Sounds like an interesting academic exercise :-). But though I think it
has been done before (some user running LMS in his car...), I wouldn't
want to waste the time. You'll have to have absolute identical file
paths for caches, music files, playlists etc. for the scanning machine
as well as the music server. Then make sure you copy the files to the
right places etc. If you have a NAS capable of running the scanner, why
not run LMS on it, too?

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Michael