Permissions for DLNA shares

wocketpatch · 27. März 2016

Greetings, I've been having trouble understanding what kind of permissions I need to give my shares. I don't seem to have any problem creating a user to access shares via SMB, but I also have MiniDLNA plugin serving a folder of videos. The folder appears empty from pretty much any device (Android phone, Roku 3).. It's easy enough to type in a username/password when connecting to an SMB share but I don't have options to add login info from most DLNA clients. Any suggestions on how I can set the permissions of the share I want to access via DLNA? Thanks. I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi B+.

ryecoaaron · 27. März 2016

The plugin adds the minidlna user to the users group. So, the files just need to be accessible by the users group. If you use the default permissions on the shared folders you use in minidlna, it should find the files just fine.

wocketpatch · 27. März 2016

Cool, thanks for the reply. I gave up on it for the night, and found that in the morning it was working. I guess it must have just needed some time to index the contents... or something like that (?)

ryecoaaron · 28. März 2016

Yes, minidlna has to create an initial database of the media files. If you have large bluray rips, it can take a long time.

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