Can start plugin service but not minidnla

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I have freenas 8.3 installed. I have installed the 8.3 Jail release and can turn on the plugin services although the ip I gave it can't be pinged and is not listed in my routers dhcp list.. I have also installed the minidnla plugin but cannot turn this on it just says "some error occured"

This is the listing

Nov 10 21:38:55 freenas notifier: Starting minidlna.
Nov 10 21:38:55 freenas notifier: [2012/11/10 21:38:55] minidlna.c:500: error: Media directory entry not understood! []
Nov 10 21:38:55 freenas notifier: Starting cron.
Nov 10 21:38:55 freenas notifier:
Nov 10 21:38:55 freenas notifier: Sat Nov 10 21:38:55 GMT 2012
Nov 10 21:38:57 freenas manage.py: [freeadmin.navtree:416] Couldn't retrieve http://192.168.1.4/plugins/minidlna/_s/treemenu: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway

I am running Freenas in a VM and 192.168.1.4 is the freenas ip which I can ping.

Any hlep or pointers to where I can look much appreciated:)

 

[mctt]

So did you figure this out?

 

[yaume]

maybe you must specify the media directory of minidlna
see minidlna configuration http://www.freenas.org/images/resou...3.1_guide.html#__RefHeading__19935_1253814021

and your jail ip address must be out of the range of your DHCP.

it's all what i know, i'm a beginner.

 

[mctt]

Hey. Thanks for the reply. I have tried and read everything I possibly could on this subject. Only thing I have not done is try on 9.x to see if that works.
I get the IP address unreachable error, a 502 Bad Gateway if I remember correctly and have even tried the admin in different browsers to avoid tw Firefox cache issue mentionedin another post.
Just can't seem to figure it out.

Now I have a microserver running with ZFS and 4x2TB HDDs I'm not going to switch to Ubuntu 10.04 but knowing I could just have PS3mediaserver running in seconds it's tough to justify the jail approach.

 

[mctt]

Hi Again, I wanted to share some success in figuring this out. What was missing from my configuration steps was looking at the tree on the left Services > Plugins > MiniDLNA.
Once that was configured it worked. It turns out I had missed that step.

A bit embarrassing to admit missing something so obvious in retrospect. I may say to do this in the youtube tutorials but as far as I read it was not in the wiki steps (a few images are missing anyhow).
I figured out what was wrong when I tried the Firefly plugin that has a message prompting you to do the extra step.

Not sure about the IP needing to be outside the hub range DHCP. I did restrict the router to 192.169.0.3 to 192.168.0.254 and then made the jail IP 192.168.0.2. But this was more to do with the Netgear Virgin Superhub tends to be a bit hit and miss with fixing IP addresses.

Thanks, hope this helps anyone gets stumped on this even if it's easy once you know how.