As long as I'm a newbie to this forum I would like to say hello to all of you. Here's my problem: after using FN8 for quite a while yesterday I upgraded my home server to 8.2 and installed two plugins: transmission (which works great) and minidlna. The latter doesn't seem to sync its database (its data dir is set to "/mnt/Pool_1/Muzyka", with one test MP3 album in there). Of course I have set the checkmark on "Rescan on (re)start", however no matter how many times I restart minidlna alone or the whole server my UPNP clients (WMP 12 and Foobar2000 1.1.7) show no files on the server. On the other hand, the same clients worked flawlessly when connecting to minidlna installed on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS - don't know the version of the package, it was just installed via apt-get from default Ubuntu repositories. Could you possibly help me resolve the problem?
The problem is with the media path selection in minidlna plugin setup screen. The directory tree erroneously make you select the path directly from the freenas filesystem instead of a jail mount point. Indeed the main filesystem is not accessible from the jail so there are no files to be found.
Just create a mount point linked to your media directory in the main filesystem and than use that mount point directly in the media path box.
To create a mount point I do the following:
- open a command shell
- type jls, note the number associated to your jail
- type jexec -u root (jail number from previous command without parentesis) csh
you should be inside the jail.
- create a directory which is going to be your mount point inside the jail. You would expect that when you create a mount point from the GUI this step would be done for you, but it is not. To create a directory type mkdir /mp3 for example
- for good measure do a chmod 777 /mp3 so permissions on this directory are not an issue
- exit the jail and close the shell.
At this point go to plugin/management/add mount point in the GUI.
in the source browse to your mp3 directory in the main file system
in the destination browse to the /mp3 you just created in the jail
Click ok and the mount point should now work.
now in the minidlna configuration screen just type /mp3 in your media directory box. dont use the directory selection tree which is wrong. click ok and restart the plugin.
You will see some disk activity as your music tree is scanned and your music should be now accessible
Dont know how to create a ticket but there is clearly a bug in minidlna configuration screen and the mount point creation should also create the destination directory in the jail with the right permissions.