Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Administrator’s Guide
- Contents
- QuickTime Streaming
- Getting Started
- Managing Your Streaming Server
- User Interface
- Working With Streaming Server Admin
- Viewing Streaming Status
- Starting or Stopping Streaming Service
- Working With Connected Users
- Changing Server Settings
- Controlling QuickTime Broadcaster Remotely
- Working With General Settings
- Working With Port Settings
- Working With Log Settings
- Viewing Error Logs and Access History
- Media
- About Instant-On Streaming
- Preparing Prerecorded Media
- Preparing Audio
- Streaming Media Files With Multiple Sources
- Streaming File Formats Like .avi, .text, and .wav
- Exporting a QuickTime Movie as a Hinted Movie
- Improving the Performance of Hinted Movies
- Session Description Protocol (SDP) Files
- Streaming Live Media
- Viewing Streamed Media From a Client Computer
- Setting Up a Web Page With Streamed Media
- Creating Links to MP3 Playlists
- Bandwidth Considerations
- Playlists
- Relays
- Security
- Resetting the Streaming Server Admin User Name and Password
- Controlling Access to Streamed Media
- Creating an Access File
- What Clients Need to Access Protected Media
- Adding User Accounts and Passwords
- Adding or Deleting Groups
- Making Changes to the User or Group File
- Installing SSL
- Using Automatic Unicast (Announce) With QTSS or DSS on a Separate Computer
- Executing a Command With sudo
- Streaming on Port 80
- Firewalls and Networks With Address Translation
- Problems
- Streaming Server Admin Is Not Responding
- The Server Doesn’t Start Up or Quits Unexpectedly
- The Streaming Server Computer Crashes or Is Restarted
- Media Files Do Not Stream Properly
- Streaming Performance Seems Slow
- Users Can’t Connect to Your Broadcast
- Users See Error Messages While Streaming Media
- Users Can’t See Live Streamed Media
- You’re Having Problems With Playlists
- Advanced
- How do I bind the Streaming Server Admin computer to a single IP address if my machine is multiho...
- How do I bind QTSS or DSS to a single IP address if my machine is multihomed?
- How do I kill and restart the QuickTime Streaming Server processes in Mac OS X Server?
- How do I kill and restart Streaming Server Admin processes in Mac OS X Server?
- How do I get QTSS to re-read its preferences without killing or restarting the server?
- How do I configure QTSS to host streams from multiple user media directories?
- User Interface
- Setup Example
- Glossary
- Index
Managing Your Streaming Server 43
Alternatively, use sudo to execute the command as root. See “Executing a Command With
sudo” on page 44.
2 Enter a new password for the user. The password you enter replaces the password in the file.
Installing SSL
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It’s a protocol that provides encrypted communications
on the Internet.
Before you enable secure administration in QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) or Darwin
Streaming Server (DSS), you must get a valid certificate signed by a certificate authority such
as VeriSign or Thawte. Install the certificate in /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/
streamingadminserver.pem (for Mac OS X) with the information from your certificate file. For
Windows, install the certificate in c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming
Server\streamingadminserver.pem. In other supported platforms, install it in /etc/streaming/
streamingadminserver.pem.
Using Automatic Unicast (Announce) With QTSS or DSS on a Separate
Computer
You can broadcast from QuickTime Broadcaster to QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) or to
Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) running on a separate computer using the Automatic Unicast
(Announce) transmission method. You’ll need to create a broadcaster user account on the
streaming server. This will allow an SDP file to be created on the server. The user name and
password that you specify will be entered through QuickTime Broadcaster.
You will need to upgrade your streaming server to QTSS or DSS 4.0 or later if you have an
earlier version. If QuickTime Broadcaster is running on the same computer as QuickTime
Streaming Server, a broadcaster user account is not required.
To create a user account on the streaming server:
1 Create a file named qtaccess in your streaming server Movies directory.
2 If you wish to let anyone broadcast to your server, enter the following lines in the file:
Warning If you enable SSL support in Streaming Server Admin, your browser must also
support SSL. If it doesn’t, you will not be able to access Streaming Server Admin. If there
is a firewall or proxy between the computer on which you are running your browser and
Streaming Server Admin, make sure that the firewall or proxy allows SSL requests to pass
through. Also, make sure that any routers or NATs (Network Address Translators) between
your remote computer and the streaming server allow port 1240 communication.
You need to install the OpenSSL library and Net::SSLeay to support the security functions
of DSS. You can get OpenSSL from www.openssl.org. You can get Net::SSLeay from
www.perl.com.
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