MiniDLNA - How to stream media from USB

[Adfra]

Hi There,

Successfully installed MiniDLNA to stream to XBOX 360 - Can see my (supported) files from storage/music | pictures | video in my xbox 360 as well as other media players. Generally all good.

A problem appeared when I tried to share media from an external USB harddrive. The files are simply not displayed anywhere.

I have so far tried:
- added the path /home/storage/extern to the MiniDLNA.conf (with/without the "V,") - restart service
- added a symlink into /home/storage/video pointing to the external drive. (It shows up in Samba on Windows, but MiniDLNA doesn't seem to follow the link.)
- Checked logfiles in /var/log -> nothing.
- Checked logfiles in /tmp/minidlna -> nothing.

My suspicion are that the access rights are not set up properly.
MiniDNLA process is currently running as root (should it?).
Files on USB stick have access rights drwxrwxr-x for user "admin" group "users".

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks
Frank

[Moloko]

Just a question:

Is the harddrive formatted in FAT or NTFS?

[Adfra]

Great question!!! Drive was formatted NTFS which was the reason it didn't work. Just installed the support for NTFS as per the wiki and all worked. Turns out though that streaming to the XBOX 360 over a wireless connection is less than great - i.e. movies take for ever to initiate... LAN cable solved that problem in the end.

Thanks for that hint!