MiniDLNA not visible (or broadcasting) to the clients

[rpillai]

Hi

I am new to FreeNAS and plugins, recently I installed FreeNAS 9.1.0 and plugins everything went fine. MiniDLNA installation was successful too. I can ping the jail ip address outside the FreeNAS and jail can ping the client machine. But the problem is DLNA client cant see the MiniDLNA. After bit of googling I found out that there is some problem in multicasting of jails, is that true? Could you please give me a solution or point to a place where I can find a solution?

Interestingly I can access the web interface of the MiniDLNA showing number of images, audio and video files through port 8200 from the client machine. Also the system process shows minidlna is running.

RPillai

 

[dlavigne]

Did you install using Plugins or Jails? If Jails, was vimage off or on during jail creation?

 

[rpillai]

Hi Thanks for the reply. I installed using plugins. Clicked-> Plugins that listed 3 available plugins, so i selected DLNA and it got installed from there.

 

[dlavigne]

Please create a new issue at https://bugs.freenas.org/projects/freenas. Include your version and architecture of FreeNAS, the fact that the plugins were installed using the Plugins browser, and, if any exist, any error messages or log errors on the client side.

 

[rpillai]

Hi Thanks for the reply, it was my cable modem/router causing the issue, the moment I changed my router. its all started working fine. Thanks for the time.

 

[hank]

hi, rpillai, i have the same issue. would you mind tell me what the problem was in your router? did you have to change some kind of configuration? thanks

 

[Whattteva]

Hi Thanks for the reply, it was my cable modem/router causing the issue, the moment I changed my router. its all started working fine. Thanks for the time.

Router blocking internal traffic, wut? That's definitely new, lol. My guess would be the router was on its way out cause it shouldn't be mucking internal traffic... at least most consumer grade routers anyway.