Open Local Area File Sharing

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for OLAFS

A) Installation instructions for Windows

Prerequisites:

1) We need a Java Virtual Machine. This version has been tested with java 1.3 (j2se 1.3.x). You can either download the software development kit (sdk), or the runtime environment (jre) from http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html

2) For convenience reasons set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to the appropriate java virtual machine directory. That is not the bin directory where the executables can be found. It's that directory that contains bin.

Install:

There is no work to do. You have done a good job by downloading OLAFS. That's enough. Ok. You need to decompress the downloaded file. All necessary libraries are already at their place.

Quickstart:

There are currently three ways to start the software:

1) Go to the distry directory and call

gui <local music direcory>

where you exchange <local music directory> with the directory you want to listen/share. It is better to quote ("...") the direcory to support directory names with spaces. This starts the gui with player and network connection. If you append the optional parameter "debug", the GUI will start with a command line window where log messages are displayed.

2) Go to the distry directory and call

dbclient <local music directory>

where you exchange <local music directory> with the directory where your music is stored. Please note the hint regarding quotation marks in 1). This only starts a command line server without any gui or player.

3) Start

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -jar OLAFS.jar -h

and follow the instructions. You can configure OLAFS as you like.

B) Installation instructions for Linux

For now, I have no special install instructions for Linux. Have a look at the A). If you have written a start script, mail it to me. You find my email address in the authors file.