Apple QuickTime Streaming Server (Administrator’s Guide) User Manual

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Managing Your Streaming Server

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To configure QTSS to host streams from multiple media directories:

1

For each individual user, make a local movie library in each user’s home directory. For
example:

/Users/user1/Movies/

/Users/user2/Movies/

/Users/user3/Movies/

2

Set each directory to be owned by its user, and give each user read/write access to his or her
own files.

3

In your QTSS media directory, create symbolic links that point to each user’s private movie
directory. For example, in Terminal, enter:

cd /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies

ln -s /Users/user1/Movies user1

ln -s /Users/user2/Movies user2

ln -s /Users/user3/Movies user3

This will produce the following:

/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user1 -> /Users/user1/Movies

/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user2 -> /Users/user2/Movies

/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user3 -> /Users/user3/Movies

4

Ask users to upload their hinted QuickTime movies to their own movie directories. For
example:

/Users/user1/Movies/sample.mov

/Users/user2/Movies/test_abc.mov

/Users/user3/Movies/xyz.mov

Users can use RTSP URLs such as the following to stream movies from each user’s private
movie directory:

rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user1/sample.mov

rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user2/test_abc.mov

rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user3/xyz.mov

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