[GRLUG] more minidnla questions

[Jonathan Jesse]

Wow that was so much easier, wish things could have been mentioned like
that at a beginning of the conversation


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Josh <leapole at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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