Unable to edit Minidlna.conf ( Read only )

[Djbinh]

Hi All,

Sorry for another noob question, from the terminal i was able to locate etc/minidlna.conf

Command : vi minidlna.conf

once im in Vi Error message minidlna.conf already locked, session is read-only

Stop MiniDLNa plugin( thought that would've done the trick however it didn't )

 

[dlavigne]

It sounds like you already have a copy of that file open. Did you open it earlier in another jexec or ssh session?

 

[Djbinh]

I think I've might of open it in SSH

How do I close.those session, I don't want to reboot all the time

 

[Dusan]

I don't think you trying to edit the right minidlna.conf. There is no /etc/minidlna.conf in the root FreeNAS filesystem.
You need to edit the file in the jail filesystem:
[jail_root]/[jail_name]/usr/pbi/minidlna-amd64/etc/minidlna.conf
For example, if your jail root is /mnt/tank/jails, your DLNA jail is named dlna_1, you need to edit:
/mnt/tank/jails/dlna_1/usr/pbi/minidlna-amd64/etc/minidlna.conf

 

[Djbinh]

Hi dusan

I'm editing the correct one sorry I didn't put down the full path in my post

 

[Dusan]

You can use
fstat
to check which process is accessing the file (it also gives you the PID so you can try to kill the process).

 

[Djbinh]

Thank Dusan that did the trick,

i've came across another issue

This is my current Minidlna.conf file, everytime i change the Friendly_name to friendly_name=Media_server, it retive back to friendly_name=Test
media_dir=/mnt/Datastore1/test1
port=8200
inotify=yes
enable_tivo=no
strict_dlna=no
notify_interval=895
friendly_name=Test

 

[Dusan]

The .conf file is regenerated based on the GUI settings every time the plugin starts or stops.

 

[Djbinh]

so how do i edit the conf file

 

[Dusan]

In the FreeNAS WebGUI go to Plugins/MiniDLNA. If you need to change parameters that are not directly present on the form use the Auxiliary parameters field.

 

[Djbinh]

Man..... your a baller

im getting it now....

 

[Djbinh]

ok

in Auxiliary parameters field. here is my conf
media_dir=V,/mnt/Datastore1/test1/Movies
media_dir=P,/mnt/Datastore1/test1/Photos
media_dir=M,/mnt/Datastore1/test1/Music

do i need to rebulid the DB if so how ?

 

[Djbinh]

MiniDLNA status

Audio files: 0
Video files: 0
Image files: 0

This is so annoying

they;re post to just turn on and off the services dint work for me

 

[Dusan]

Are you file permissions set correctly? Is the dlna account able to access them?

 

[Djbinh]

is the DLNA account daemon ?

 

[Dusan]

is the DLNA account daemon ?

I'm sorry, but I do not understand the question.
What are the unix permissions & owner of the files & directories you are trying to share via DLNA? ls -l shows you this information.

 

[paleoN]

in Auxiliary parameters field. here is my conf
media_dir=V,/mnt/Datastore1/test1/Movies
media_dir=P,/mnt/Datastore1/test1/Photos
media_dir=M,/mnt/Datastore1/test1/Music

Are these the jail-side mounts, because they don't appear to be. From outside the jail:

Code:

mount

 

[Djbinh]

[root@freenas] /mnt/Datastore1/Test1# ls -l
total 56
drwxrwxrwx 5 nobody wheel 7 Sep 16 19:40 ./
drwxrwxrwx 13 root wheel 15 Sep 15 13:26 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 6148 Sep 15 22:09 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 4096 Sep 15 22:09 ._.DS_Store
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody wheel 2 Sep 16 19:40 Logs/
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody wheel 3 Sep 15 13:56 Movies/
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody wheel 3 Sep 16 17:06 Photos/

 

[Djbinh]

Are these the jail-side mounts, because they don't appear to be. From outside the jail:

Code:

mount

Yeah this is outside of the jai, im guessing it wont work like that

 

[Dusan]

You need to make the data accessible from inside the jail: Adding Storage