[arch-general] minidlna problems

[Peter Nabbefeld]

Thank You - I must admit that my firewall settings have been incorrect, 
though I've been sure I did change them, but obviously I didn't save 
them or sth. else ...

Kind regards
Peter


Am 04.12.2016 um 18:17 schrieb Mike Cloaked via arch-general:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Peter Nabbefeld <peter.nabbefeld at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Mike,
>>
>> I cannot find any important differences between Your files and mine. I've
>> tested VLC, and if this is broken, the test doesn't have any relevance, so
>> I need some other client first.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Peter
>
>
> In my case I can run vlc from another machine within my LAN to see the
> files on my media server running minidlna - one thing worth checking is
> that you don't have any firewall blocks for the required ports on the
> server. Again in my case the server is entirely within my home LAN and not
> visible to the wider internet, so there are less security concerns in this
> case than if the server was being accessed from the WAN.
>
> The version current in arch is minidlna 1.1.6-1 but perhaps the comment
> earlier in the thread about version 2.x is a heads-up for when the version
> in arch is updated in the future at some point to make sure that 2.x does
> support UPnP. Certainly minidlna 1.1.6-1 works fine once it is set up
> correctly.
>