Restrict access to minidlna service

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello community!

I have set up minidlna on my openwrt router to distribute some music to connected clients. However, I don't want all clients to have access to the minidlna service.

Is it somehow possible to whitelist/blacklist clients to not be able to use the minidlna service? Would it be possible to block certain interfaces/vlans to access the minidlna service?

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For Minidlna there is a setting called 'network_interface' that defines what network interfaces to serve. In standard it is set to 'br-lan'. That means it serves all interfaces. If I unset 'br-lan' and set it to serve a certain wireless adapter only (e.g. wlan1) this doesn't work. The minidlna server cannot be found then.

I really don't understand how to only serve certain adapters and the documentation for minidlna is quite non-existing.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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You can check here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MiniDLNA, I am not sure if it will work on OpenWrt..

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Thanks for pointing to this manual. Unfortunately, it doesn't really help because it basically contains the same information that can be found on the OpenWRT website. Setting 'network_interface=' just doesn't seem to work. Or, it is supposed to work in a different way and I misunderstand this setting.

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I was looking at " Configuration Locally (per user)" section. You may assign different users and prevent some of them to access the server. Again- I am not sure if it is going to work.

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I couldn't figure out how to restrict minidlna for some network interfaces so I took another route.

For anybody facing the same question:

I instead set a traffic rule, blocking port 8200 for the specific clients.

So in my case it is:
Incoming IPv4 and IPv6
From lan, IP 192.168.x.xxx
To this device, port 8200
Reject input

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