What Apps would you recommend for..

[flawd]

Hey guys,

I was wondering what app would work best for sharing videos. I have 6TB collection of movies and shows, I was wondering what would work best on Tiny Core for sharing this content on other devices. Something like freeNAS..

Also what firewall/cache apps would you guys recommend using?

[gerald_clark]

I recommend minidlna which is available for Core 4.7
It has no deps, so should work with 5.x and 6.x also.

[flawd]

I recommend minidlna which is available for Core 4.7
It has no deps, so should work with 5.x and 6.x also.

I dont see it App Browser, where can I download older apps and whats the command to install?

[flawd]

I recommend minidlna which is available for Core 4.7
It has no deps, so should work with 5.x and 6.x also.

I dont see it App Browser, where can I download older apps?

[gerald_clark]

Click on downloads at the top of this page.
Change the 6 to a 4.
Browse to find the files and ad to the link EX:
http://tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/tcz/minidlna.tcz
The browser should download the file, or use wget.
Get the dep and md5 files also for packages downloaded this way.
Save them to the optional directory and then "tce-load -i" the package.

[Juanito]

There's also rygel

[flawd]

Click on downloads at the top of this page.
Change the 6 to a 4.
Browse to find the files and ad to the link EX:
http://tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/tcz/minidlna.tcz
The browser should download the file, or use wget.
Get the dep and md5 files also for packages downloaded this way.
Save them to the optional directory and then "tce-load -i" the package.

I got it installed and running. The server shows up but there are no files being listed. I think it has to do something with the format(NTFS) of the USB I am pointing minidlna to pull videos from.

When I navigate to the usb, 'cd /mnt/sdb1' I cannot view any of the files on it. If the user can't view the files, I don't see how minidlna can view them.

I tried looking up ways to view ntfs on linux and came across ntfs-3g.tcz but I think this only works by mounting the usb to the hard drive? I don't know if this will work for me because my external hard drive are way larger in size than my internal..

How can I view NTFS or other formatted drives?

There's also rygel

Thanks Juanito! Do you know how this compares to minidlna? I will give this a go after I get minidlna working so I can see which one is better.

[gerald_clark]

You need to install the ntfs-3g extension, and then mount the drive.

[flawd]

You need to install the ntfs-3g extension, and then mount the drive.

Works now, thanks gerald!!!

One last question, I downloaded the tcz via firefox and placed it in my '/home/tc' folder then ran 'tce-load -i /home/tc/minidlna.tcz'. Which successfully install the tcz. The only problem is now every-time I reboot and try to start the minidlna using 'minidlna', it says no such command. I assume this means that minidlna isn't installed after a reboot.

Should I add, 'tce-load -i /home/tc/minidlna.tcz' and 'minidlna' to the bootlocal.sh? or is there a better or "proper" way of doing this?

P.S. I was unable to get rygel to work. It requires enabling X11 on ssh and some crap like that I couldn't figure out. It's a GUI program. But minidlna seems to be working good so far. But it looks like minidlna is better anyway based off this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers

[Greg Erskine]

onboot.lst

[gerald_clark]

As I said, put it in the tce/optional directory.
Then do as Greg said, add it to onboot.lst.
Then edit  /opt/.filetool.lst and add the config file to the files to backup.  Then do a backup.

[flawd]

All up and running... and I learned where all these tcz files have been going. Thanks for help guys!

Edit: Okay, so dlna runs smooth now but apache isnt showing up localhost, cups is not showing up on localhost:631, and I think there is suppose to be a web access page for minidlna too at localhost:8200.. also not working..

[gerald_clark]

Did you start an httpd server in bootlocal.sh?
Did you start cups?
I'm not currently running minidlna on core, but on CentOS 6 port 8200 is a status page.

[flawd]

Did you start an httpd server in bootlocal.sh?
Did you start cups?
I'm not currently running minidlna on core, but on CentOS 6 port 8200 is a status page.

Yes I have added apache start and cups start to bootlocal.sh before minidlna start. I tried taking minidlna off and the other services worked again, but when I started minidlna up again the localhost pages didn't show up anymore.

Theres this piece in the minidlna.conf

# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket
#minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock

I don't know what .sock does but I have seen it before when working with the other conf files?

[gerald_clark]

You are probably not launching minidlna in the background.
This will cause the rest of bootlocal.sh to never run.