multiple MB servers on same network

[sigfreund 0]

I have 3 HTPC's on the same network all set to sleep when not in use.  Will I run into any problems installing seperate MB servers on each computer?  Do I need to do anything special such as changing port numbers to prevent conflicts?  Any pros and cons of single versus multiple MB servers?  It seems multiple servers more closely mirrors what I had with MB2.

 

Thanks

[Luke 42077]

the cons are no shared user data, such as playstate. other than that it should be fine.

[ebr 16169]

Plus you'll need to maintain separate configurations.

 

It would be best if you could dedicate one of those machines to be the server.

[sigfreund 0]

I took your advice and have one of my HTPC dedicated as a server and have been very pleased, everything is working perfectly.  I am baffled by the negligible performance hit on the server, it is a tiny AMD E-350 and even with the other two machines watching blueray movies the utilization is below 20% and the network useage is way below what the movies require.  All of my media is stored on NAS drives so it looks like none of the data is going thru the server, is this correct?  Whatever you guys did it sure works well.  I have kicked in my third contribution to show my support, Thanks Again!

[ebr 16169]

And thank you!

 

Whether the media is passed through the server depends on a lot of factors including the client being used and the format of the content and how you define your library.

 

All the clients try to decide how to deliver the content in the best possible manner with the least possible need for processing by the server and they are all in the process of fine-tuning and refining those decisions.

[bret1958 27]

I had a PC client take down a server today It was trying to decode rather than just stream the content. Is this a new Feature and how can I avoid the issue I have 2 servers that i need to keep seperate one with 8 tb of storage the other with 20, I want to acsess the second server content without having that server do any decoding is this possible. I have it set up so guests at the vacation rental can watch movies on one server with out over loading the network, yet I still want to accesss the content from another server for my viewing to keep from having to have 2 copies of the movies. I dont want 2 blurays streaming in the network at once.. hence letting them view the content locally. But When I access it from my rig it wants the guests server to decode. I hope i explained this corectly for a response.