I installed it from the arch wiki - it worked a treat. On 17 October 2017 at 13:25, Rafał Frąckowiak via Hampshire < [email protected]> wrote:
> @Rob > Start with basics, is the service running? Maybe firewall is blocking sth? > Have you checked logs? > > Arch wiki should be useful as well. > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ReadyMedia > > Cheers, > Rafal > > > On 17 Oct 2017, at 14:18, Chris Malton via Hampshire < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Replying to self (bad form in a way): > > media_dir=/path/to/folder > db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna > log_dir=/var/log > port=8200 > serial=681019810597110 > inotify=yes > album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg > album_art_names=AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg > album_art_names=Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg > > That is the uncommented content of the minidlna.conf file. > > Minidlna is running as the "minidlna" user. - Routine install from apt-get. > > Regards, > > Chris > > On 15/10/17 13:05, Chris Malton via Hampshire wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > I am running minidlna on a Raspi for streaming media and it works well. > > I will see if I can dig out the config when I get home tonight. > > Regards, > > Chris > > On 15/10/17 10:30, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote: > > Hi all > > Has anyone had any success running minidlna? For the life of me, I can’t > see what I’m doing wrong. It’s installed and according to > > sudo services minidlna status > > it seems to be running ok but I can’t see it either on the server’s file > manager (which is Xenial) or on any (Windows) clients. Disconcertingly, > it doesn’t even appear to be building a database or logging to anywhere. > I have faffed at length with /etc/minidlna.conf but to no avail. > Apparently you can either run it as yourself, and ensure minidlna.conf is > pointing at directories that you have write permission to. The > alternative (and default) is for it to run as a (non-logging in) user > called minidlna. In this case, said user minidlna must have write > permissions to all directories specified in minidlna.conf. Not wanting > the hassle of chmod hierarchies, I went for the former option and specified > it as such user=myname in /etc/minidlna.conf. > > Is there a winning formula out there? The reason I’m trying to set this > up is I rather fancy [2] and sadly it only works with dlna. > > Cheers > Rob > [2] > https://www.sevenoakssoundandvision.co.uk/p-15794-marantz-m-cr611-music- > streaming-cd-dab-system-ex-speakers.aspx?gclid= > EAIaIQobChMIg9D5wqjy1gIVwT8bCh2TOAfNEAQYASABEgIld_D_BwE > This email has been scanned by the MailScanner e-mail security system. > > > This email has been scanned by the MailScanner e-mail security system. > > > -- > Please post to: [email protected] > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > Please post to: [email protected] > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- -- You back your data up on the same planet? http://www.monkeez.org PGP key: 0x7111B833
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