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Do you have Rhythm Box installed?On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 20:54 +0100, bad apple wrote:
> On 06/08/13 20:43, Adam wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've got an odd problem where whenever I run a media server on my Lenovo
> > laptop running Mint 15 64bit (Cinnamon), it can't be seen or found by
> > anything else on my network.
> >
> > My android phones and tablet, PS3, Xbox 360, humax PVR and three WIndows
> > (2x7, 1x8) PCs can all see each other no problem, through a mixture of
> > direct ethernet to router, powerline and wifi.
> >
> > I've tried minidlna and Universal Media Server (a fork of PS3Mediaserver).
> > Both services run with no problem, and minidlna's localhost service screen
> > shows me that it's indexing my files no problem, but I just can't get any
> > of the devices on my network to see this laptop.
> >
> > Mint's built-in firewall is disabled.
> >
> > Am I missing anything obvious, or is there anything more I can tell you to
> > help identify a cause?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Adam
> >
>
> I don't know anything about minidlna but UMS generates a debug.log
> (which you can find from the GUI). I'd have a look in there first. You
> may need to create custom render.confs for your various clients but they
> don't sound particularly unusual and I would have thought they'd be
> picked up automatically. Of course, seeing as UMS is a Java app, almost
> anything could be going wrong...
>
> Regards
>
In the Edit Plugins part of this is a plug in called
DLNA Sharing control Support
Adds support for playing media from and sending media to DLNA/UPnP
network devices, and enables Rhythmbox to be controlled by a DLNA/UPnP
ControlPoint
tick the box
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