Server :: Whats The Best 64bit UPnP And NAS Distro
Jun 2, 2011
I've got a solid PC w/Xeon dual core, 4gb RAM, and (2) 1Tb Sata HDs - looking to replace a WinXP pc that currently is running PlayOn (for media to the BD player on the TVs) and sharing folders/drives to all the PCs (WinXP, Win7, OSX, and Ubuntu.
I have tried a few distros to get media shared to the BD players, and even a Win7 - but the BD players can't seem to play any of the video files on the newer 'servers' - and only the Win7 even appears to the Sony TV in the living room (even though it can only browse the folders with video files). Another problem with the Win7 being tested for acting as a server - is the Macs cant seem to access the shares (get Access Denied errors).
Wondering if there is any good distro that is mainly setup for sharing files and storage space to all my devices. Thinking of trying FreeNAS, and seeing if I could add the UPnP/DNLA server packages to it?
Im trying to set up a web server on Linux and I was wondering if there may be any shortcuts available or a simple step process to get me where I need to be in regards to setting up the server.
I have a CentOS Server and i use ispconfig 3. I have hosted 10 websites and the other day all my websites went down. I have tried to look at the logs i cant see any thing ISPconfig logs dont have any errors.
I have just recently switched my setup to have my server be in the middle of traffic and act as my new router while making my other routers just switches. However, after doing this I can no longer access my UPnP devices. They used to show up in my router but I am assuming either there is an issue with my iptables rules or that some how having my server run the dhcp and dns routing is messing with UPnP.
pc specs amd dual core 3.11ghz 4gb of ram ati 4850 1gb
i took the distro test and both said that mandriva would be good for me, so ima try that and see how it works out. ima use it for djing, maybe some games but prolly not not sure yet, and other than that just basic web surfing, burning movies, and just normal tasks.
i run ubuntu 9.10. i have updated all installed packages. i run a 32bit 3.6 ghz intel p4 dual core with three monitors running on two video cards. all this works correctly. i am able to play video in video player and audacious2 on any monitor.
i'm trying to run a upnp media server for my house. myself and both my tenants have playstation 3s, and i would like to host music, music videos, original content, and the backup copies of legally purchased dvds over the network. i recently converted from windows xp, and all of my media files were created by vlc on windows xp, ripped with winamp, edited and rendered with sony vegas, or downloaded from videos. i have tried both mediatomb (from the repository) and fuppes (from subversion) and had the same result with both.
basically, whenever the media center tries to populate the database and search the files, ffmpeg returns an error that crashes the media center. i do not know enough to implement better error handling in the source. both media servers, when running in the terminal, eventually return the same error message when scanning my sepearate hard drive for media. (~100gb of mp3, avi, mpeg, and mp4 files)
the process then ends.the weird thing is that this does not happen when i disable mp4 files in mediatomb (although i have not figured out how to replicate this feature in fuppes) so i have reason to believe that something in the metadata for mp4 files is throwing ffmpeg off. even if the metadata is bad in the mp4 file, it shouldn't cause a crash.
i tried to compile mediatomb without ffmpeg support, but the ./configure script returned errors whenever i tried to append an option to the configure command. i then reinstalled all the ffmpeg packages in the symantec package manager and still no luck.
I have been trying to find something that does this for some time now and discussions on IRC didn't turn up anything usefull - thats why this post for a prolonged discussion I have Ubuntu Server 10.4 installed (no X) and am trying to use it as an upnp media renderer. I would like to be able to playback their music on the servers soundcard from various devices. Thus it would be nice to have the ubuntu server expose an upnp media-renderer which one can use as an output device.
Is there a suggestion on which software to use? What I already have working is an upnp media-server (mediatomb) with ampache, but this isn't really what I'd like since I don't have as much disk-space on the server as I have on the various computers.
Rhythmbox plays local m4a files no problem. I have a few upnp servers running on other machines around the house, mediatomb, tvmobili, vuze, mythtv. Rhythmbox is setup with the coherence plugin and happily plays mp3 from these servers but it cannot 'see' any m4a files via upnp, even though it can play the same files if i copy them to the machine that is running rhythmbox.
It even has a great android app. It does a great job automatically organizing all my movie and tv show files. I was though quite disappointed when i found out it didnt have upnp support anymore and therefore would not stream things to my WD TV Live, etc.
I know how to easily setup a dlna server using minidlna or ushare, but neither would automatically refresh my file listings (if you tried a cron, it would interrupt the current stream and of course I would prefer as close to real time updates as possible). It also of course didnt provide any automatic naming/organizing/images of the videos that Plex would do.
Any recommendations on what might be available out there that would provide all the features I mentioned above, but would provide the data in a more standard format like upnp/dlna instead of the proprietary format that Plex offers? I am also open to ideas that would get Plex to work with the WDTV Live.
I have a new hp g62 notebook pc with intel core i5 m469 @ 2.53 GHz, 64 bit operating system. I wish to use GCC to develop for msp430's, arm7/9. Which distro would work best for this hardware?
I have several PCs running w7 and linux. I have a netbook Samsung N150 which has a large HD (250G) and interested in running 24h homeserver mainly for media files. Netbook will be hooked up to LAN and will be streaming wirelessly (have fast connection) thru out the house. Which of the recent distro.
it's been quite a while since firefox 3.6.4 was released and yet i don't see any update and it seem to be that there is nothing in the stable ppa of firefox that i found.
For about a month GParted has been not running right for me. When I try to formate ext2/3 FS to a disk, it never completes, or hangs or then wont quit all the way when I shut it down. Then I have to use sudo pkill gparted to kill it right. Any one else having this trouble? Whats going on here? Is this some sort of kernel regression?
I have the opportunity to set up our local public library with a linux server. The primary need is for the server to land wifi users to a hotspot splash screen where they will accept terms of use and indicate what town they are from by checking a box or selecting from a dropdown menu. Users of terminals in the library would also have to indicate what town they are from. Things such as content filtering may come later. What distro would be recommended for this? Ease of use and configuration is important. They basically want to track use of the internet.
I am a complete newbie to linux and Fedora, having previously used Windows/Vista. I have a Netgear router which is configured to allow upnp, and i use deluge as my bittorrent client, though would use either transmission or deluge. I used deluge on windows and upnp worked fine, but now i am usisng fedora with the same settings it doesnt work.
In Deluge (or Transmission) UPnP is ticked and i have limited port range to on port say 57000. In Router config UPnP is ticked. In the Fedora firewall i have gone in and set it up to allow the specified port, say 57000 in other ports.
It seems that with ufw enabled It is impossible for upnp applications to negociate with the network router the ports they need to be opened. Is there any way to make ufw and upnp work together?
I've been trying without success for sometime now to find a linux upnp renderer. I've tried to install gmediarender but it will not install on my laptop. I have tried XBMC but was hoping for something a bit lighter (like geexbox). Something that comes in a live cd form would be best.
Out of daemons desperation* i had to install xfce4 Ok: kidding aside. I would like to add a shortcut to open the menu, but can't figure out how to call it. I checked */bin, but it ain't mentioned there. *heck: I think desolation is the better word.
Is a firewall necessary on ubuntu? I've never thought about it until now. Do I need one? If so whats a good firewall to install? As you can tell im not too knowledgeable on this subject. I know (i think) linux has a built in firewall called iptables but ive never used it or looked into it.
i been pretty busy lately and haven't really been keeping up with gaming. i thought it would be fun to play an online game but i refuse to resort to downloading windows haha, plus i would have to set up grub to load both operating systems which i really don't feel like messing with. so whats a fun online game that works in wine?
I am running Xandros3.0.1 OC on the same PC with Win XP Pro. Connection to internet through Win XP works fine but whe I try to connect through Xandros I got following message: unsuccessful PPPOE initialization request. What did I do wrong.
Can anybody tell me what is the best distro to use for building a DNS server? I have been playing around with CentOS 5.5 and have heard mixed results. Also I need to know how to download it. Alot of distro's do not have iso's, like openbsd and i am confused on what exactly to download.
The firewall in Fedora 12 seems to block UPnP by default, but opening port 1900 for UDP, as I have seen suggestedes not resolve the problem.have the following three scenarios:Firewall Enabled: Transmission cannot open a port by UPnPFirewall Enabled (1900 UDP allowed): Transmission cannot open a port by UPnPFirewall Disabled: Transmission opens a port via UPnP fineAny ideas? Yes, the port that I'm trying to open is also allowed. Router is a Linksys BEFSR41 v4.3, should you care
I'm trying to use the Banshee remote control application for Android, but there is no option for remote controls in the Banshee application I installed. I used to use Ubuntu and I'm pretty sure I remember it being there. Am I missing a package or something?
I've noticed in my karmic Koala pulseaudio has many options to make my sound discoverable via upnp/dlna server. I've got a ps3 and a Pinnacle Soundbridge, suitable for this protocol and working fine with mt-daapd or ushare. But I would like to use mplayer and making the sound available to my devices. I've activated the options in Pulseaudio (paprefs) but can't play music in my client device and I can't see the server in the lan.
This is my config: sound Preferences > output > DLNA/upnp Streaming (stereo) paprefs
-Tab Network access click on "make discoverable Pulseaudio network sound devices available locally" & same for "[...] Apple Airtunes" -Tab Network server All options clicked on -Tab Multicast RTP Enabled "receiver", enabled "sender" and selected "send audio from local speakers" -Tab simultaneous output Not enabled
Padevchooser - Default server: my pc - Default sink: DLNA/upnp Streaming - Default source: internal analog Stereo Can't see any upnp server.
