Escient FIREBALL MP-150 Manuel D’Utilisation

PRODUCT WARRANTY WD014-1-2 

12/22/2003

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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 

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 

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. 

Yes 

No 

No No 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

 Client-Server networking is limited to the same local subnet. You can not stream over 

the Internet.