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ADerber
Aug 24, 2015Aspirant
WNDR 4300 media server is not available
Hi. I have configured media server on my WNDR 4300 and I have verified that the connected USB drive is "allowed" (extendent setting USB). However the DLNA clients can't connect to the system and it ...
- Aug 27, 2015
Hi,
I had been able to delete the folder and change the permissions to rebuilt the DLNA DB. Now everything is working.
So I think this problem is solved.
Thanks
Axel
ElaineM
Aug 26, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello ADerber,
Welcome to the community!
Are the folders inside the USB drive in read-write access and also it's not password protected. Check your folder properties to verify this settings.
Let us know what happens.
Regards,
- ADerberAug 27, 2015Aspirant
Hi Elaine,
it seems I was not able to change permissions on subfolder .ReadyDLNA and so I always got the message when trying to restore media server DB: [2015/08/27 22:21:58] minidlna.c:1070: warn: Starting ReadyDLNA version 1.1.0.
[2015/08/27 22:21:58] minidlna.c:385: warn: Creating new database at /tmp/mnt/sda1/.ReadyDLNA/files.db
[2015/08/27 22:21:59] minidlna.c:396: fatal: Failed to clean old file cache! Exiting...I have a simple Windows 7 Home and when trying to reset the owner of the folder structure to set permissions or to simply delete the subfolders I got "Error resetting security details - access denied" (my private translation since I got a German GUI on my PC).
So it seems that due to missing permissions on this folder the DLNA DB can't be created and so nothing is shown in DLNA mode! Probably I'll connect the USB drive to another PC with more rights (enterprise windows 7 or so) to delete the folder.
Axel