[GRLUG] more minidnla questions

[Josh]

easy answer would be to chmod -R 777 /media/Media

now if thats give too much permissions out is another thing.

If you are the only user on the laptop it should be just fine


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since you guys were so awesome with the scripting question I thought you
> could help me out with yet another question.
>
> No idea why I'm using minidlna but it seems to work mostly and was pretty
> easy to setup.
>
> I have a Dell Laptop w/ 2 hard drives in it 150gb drive as / and a 300gb
> drive that mounts as /media/Media upon startup.
>
> I'v come to fill up my / partition (drive) with iso images, virtual
> machines, and other media and would like to use my 300gb for my videos.
>
> Minidlna allows me to specify the folder separately for music, videos etc
> in the minidlna.conf file.
>
> So if I have a drive /media/Media and a folder called Videos I should be
> able to configure minidlna to use /media/Media/Videos/ as my folder to
> stream files.
>
> However I keep getting a permission denied when starting the service.
>  I've posted on askubuntu.com but don't see to be avle to get it fiugred
> out correctly
>
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/266033/permissions-for-video-folder-for-minidlna
>
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