Getting Squeezeplay working on Win 7

Hi,

Wonder if anyone can help me here. I have a LMS running on Debian, v. 7.7.6 with two duets and a boom. The thing has been stable now for several years, bar the odd reset. I run the whole thing over my wifi LAN, just a generic Linksys wifi modem. All good.

But I have never had luck with Squeezeplay. if I ever could get it to work it was never stable. Today I tried again because my kids would like to access the library, and this would be a cool way without buying more hardware.

I installed the latest (7.8.0 r719) - it sees the library but will not connect. I tried running as admin, turning off windows firewall (laptop runs Win 7 Home). No good. Looked in the log files on the linux box, set log levels to debug for jive stuff, don't even see a line when the player tries to connect. I also run Malwarebytes, but that is not complaining at all (and it shouldn't).

To be clear : it always finds the library, but I always get the little spinning wheel, and then "could not connect". Always the same.

Also squeezeplay does not show in the list of players via the web GUI. IT sees the Boom, but neither of the two Duets.

Baffled. This should "just work", right? what to try? it WOULD be nice to get this going.

thanks in advance

D