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Topic: Alternative to miniDLNA/UPnP Server in Openwrt ?

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I have a Chaos Calmer 15.05.1 on RT5350 based Router.

I have a miniDLNA server running on the Router which hosts the media files (Video,Audio,Images) that are stored in USB or SD card.

I have an Android mobile app 'Slick UPnP' that acts as DLNA client which is able to show the media files through wifi.

I am not able to view pdf files or doc files or text files or excel files in the mobile.

I am looking for an alternative to miniDLNA that can show all types of files in storage media.

Rgds,

Just share it over Samba, for me it works better even for streaming

Thanks for the reply.

I happened to use Samba Server, and currently able to view the files.
Not able to write to the USB pen drive over wifi.

Do you know how shall I give write permissions to it.?

Rgds,

install luci-app-samba
then you can access the configuration file from luci
Services->network shares


you may have the read-only activated

this app is also nice to create the folder shares

(Last edited by megapt on 17 Oct 2016, 10:08)

I did not check the option for 'read-only'.
I am using luci-app-samba and also services->network shares.

Share Directories:

Name:
USB_Files

Path:
/mnt/sda1

Allow guests:
check marked


I did not check mark the read-only, but still i am not getting write permissions.
Don't know where is the problem.

Rgds,

what is the filesystem of the usb drive?

FAT16 is the file system of the current USB pen drive that I am using.

Rgds,

I was trying to mount the FAT file system without rw permissions.

I used the following command to mount the FAT file system:
mount -t vfat  /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 -o rw,umask=0000

I get the write permissions..

I guess only read-only option has to unmarked, but the mounting of USB should be with 'rw'.

Thanks for the replies.

Rgds,

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