Jinzora?

irishcereal · 2011-01-03 04:08:16

Hello!

I recently decided to try out Jinzora for media streaming needs. I have a small media server setup with Arch Linux running on it. I have an external 320GB hard drive with all my music connected to it. I'd like to stream all of that music to the rest of my computers.

I have successfully setup Jinzora to the point where I can access the front-end from any computer. Everything works awesomely...Except importing music. When I enter in the path (/srv/http/jinzora2/music/) It says there are no files. I was wondering what the possible reasons for this could be. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks guys and gals!

CrashHarddrive · 2011-01-03 20:41:13

What is in the folder /srv/http/jinzora2/music/? Is this a symlink to your external HDD? If so, this is the problem, Jinzora doesn't deal well with a symbolic path to a music directory. Try mounting your external drive to a folder inside your Jinzora directory through the fstab file to make it a hard link (and best is to use the UUID instead of /media/disk1/ or whatever).

irishcereal · 2011-01-03 21:20:45

Okay. I've never used fstab before but here is what I entered in it. It doesn't seem to be working.

/dev/sdb1  /srv/http/jinzora2  auto users defaults  0  0

Did I do something wrong?

CrashHarddrive · 2011-01-06 10:14:21

Three issues on your fstab entry:
The syntax is <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> (you'll see this towards the top of the file)
So you're missing the file system type on your HDD, and also the options should be comma separated with no spaces. Since you're passing options the "default" entry isn't necessary so the options should read "user,auto"
The last issue is that you had /srv/http/jinzora2 for the mount point. You need a separate (and otherwise empty) folder to point the mount to.
I don't know what format your HDD is in, but you can see a list of types you can use here:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

So your fstab should look like:

/dev/sdb1 /srv/http/jinzora2/music ext4 user,auto 0 0

Substitute your own file type for ext4 if it's something else.
Test the setup when done by bringing up a terminal and typing in "mount /srv/http/jinzora2/music".
It will mount silently, or you'll see an error message which should point you to any remaining issues.

CrashHarddrive · 2011-01-08 12:39:21

Also, if you want the external drive checked with fsck at boot change your pass setting to 1, which is a good idea if it's going to stay attached to this box all the time:

/dev/sdb1 /srv/http/jinzora2/music ext4 user,auto 0 1

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#1 2011-01-03 04:08:16

Jinzora?

#2 2011-01-03 20:41:13

Re: Jinzora?

#3 2011-01-03 21:20:45

Re: Jinzora?

#4 2011-01-06 10:14:21

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#5 2011-01-08 12:39:21

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