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splippity

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Registered: 2010-05-25

Posts: 144

[Solved] Trying to stream movies in home network

I set up media tomb easily enough but the problem I face is that people could view files on my system that they dont have a need to be in for example the whole filesystem.
How could I lock it down to where they can only see say the movie folder or the music folders I have???
The tests I have done where I give them a link for the specific files works fine streaming so thats not a problem but I cannot send them a link everytime they want to watch something either or hear "well whats on it?"
Or do I need to try and just go a traditional ftp route?? Im sure if I setup a regular ftp and gave everyone read permission to the specific folders they could load a link to the file in vlc player and stream it just the same.

I want to know what experience others have had with these issues???

Thanks

Last edited by splippity (2010-11-18 23:47:23)

Howitzer

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From: Belgium (Antwerp)

Registered: 2006-09-29

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Re: [Solved] Trying to stream movies in home network

I came upon this:

I can't browse directory xxx in the Web UI in the Filesystem view, why? How can I add it?

This is a permissions problem - the user/group under which MediaTomb is running has no access to that particular directory.

So I guess you could add a user to your system, grant him readonly access to your media, no read access to the system and readwrite access to its home dir. Just throwing out an idea here.

Adrian

(Media Tomb FAQ)

Last edited by Howitzer (2010-11-18 12:43:17)

splippity

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Registered: 2010-05-25

Posts: 144

Re: [Solved] Trying to stream movies in home network

I figured the stupidity out.

Seemed that it was working the whole time but vlc couldnt find the upnp share.

My own vlc couldnt. I could send a link and load it in it with success but thats not useful if someone cannot browse it.

Even tried windows media player/center on windows and couldnt find it.

But decided to try xbmc and added source, selected upnp and bam there it was.
So I downloaded xbmc onto the windows comps but its not as nice as vlcplayer when you want to do other things while playing a movie. I mean you can set it to windowed mode but still not the same.