MediaTomb, what am I doing wrong

Never · 2010-10-25 23:37:03

So I downloaded and installed MediaTomb. I could not get the daemon config file to work, apparently there is no config.xml in /var/lib/mediatomb, but there was one under home so I did a

 $ mediatomb

and that got things up and running. I localhosted the webpage, loaded some test music and then added the port to shorewall [doing this over ssh]. Then on my client machine [windows XP] I browsed for upnp devices and boom, MediaTomb, but when I click on it windows says the, "The device you are trying to use is not currently available on your network. Check to see if the devices is on the network and try again." However, as soon as I drop the screen mediatomb is running on, windows drops the device from My Network Places and when I start it, it adds it, so I don't know how it is unavailable.

All I want is to put music on my linux machine and listen to it from my XP tablet with windows media player, if someone has a better way, let me know please. Thanks.

PirateJonno · 2010-10-26 06:41:48

Look in /var/lib/mediatomb/.mediatomb or edit /etc/conf.d/mediatomb to change the config directory. Then you should start it with /etc/rc.d/mediatomb. I don't know if that will fix your problem though.

Never · 2010-10-31 20:44:45

It did not generate a config.xml outside of my home directory, so that is not working.

.:B:. · 2010-10-31 21:08:51

Mediatomb should be outputting a log somewhere, allowing you to find out what exactly goes wrong.

Never · 2010-11-01 05:51:16

Would you happen to know where somewhere is?

jasonwryan · 2010-11-01 05:55:58

In debian it is /var/log/mediatomb.log - but you might want to try:

locate mediatomb | grep log

PirateJonno · 2010-11-01 23:07:34

You might need to make it writable by your mediatomb user. I'll put that in the initscripts of the next update if necessary
(and yes it should be /var/log/mediatomb.log)

Last edited by PirateJonno (2010-11-01 23:08:18)

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#1 2010-10-25 23:37:03

MediaTomb, what am I doing wrong

#2 2010-10-26 06:41:48

Re: MediaTomb, what am I doing wrong

#3 2010-10-31 20:44:45

Re: MediaTomb, what am I doing wrong

#4 2010-10-31 21:08:51

Re: MediaTomb, what am I doing wrong

#5 2010-11-01 05:51:16

Re: MediaTomb, what am I doing wrong

#6 2010-11-01 05:55:58

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#7 2010-11-01 23:07:34

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