Escient Fireball E-2, User Manual

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12/22/2003
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FireBall Client Server Products
Servers
A FireBall Server is a Fireball media management system that is capable of “serving” media to
other FireBalls over a network. Currently there are three FireBall products which can serve
media to other FireBalls.
FireBall (40GB with HPNA networking)
FireBall E-40
FireBall E-120
Clients
A FireBall Client is a FireBall that can play media from a FireBall Server over a network.
Currently there are three different FireBall products that can play media from FireBall servers:
FireBall (40GB with HPNA networking)
FireBall MP-100
FireBall DVDM-100
Client Server Combinations
The original FireBall is a client and a server at the same time. It uses a peer-to-peer client and
server networking scheme that allows 2 or more FireBalls to automatically synchronize their
MP3 music libraries so that the contents of both the client and server appear in the Music
Guides of each FireBall. You can create a rather large network providing each room access to
the combined FireBall music library.
The FireBall-E servers are only servers and can not act as clients to other FireBall servers.
The newer FireBall clients (the MP and DVDM) use a standard client-server networking
scheme. The following table indicates which servers are compatible with which clients.
Server
Client
FireBall FireBall-E 40/120
FireBall Yes No
FireBall-E 40/120 No No
FireBall-MP Yes Yes
FireBall DVDM-100 Yes Yes
Limitations
Client-Server networking is limited to the same local subnet. You can not stream over
the Internet.