Samba and minidlna on pogoplug

[megazal]

Hi!
I've just installed ArchLinux on my pogoplug based on guide for pogoplug pro/video/v3 and everything went fine. Unfortunately I'm noob in linux... The only 2 things I want to make with my pogo is to run samba and minidlna to share my media for other devices in my home: tv, raspberry pi (xmbc), laptop, ps3 and android phone. Therefore I will be thankful for your help.
1. Firstly a little question about this text from installation guide "Upstream Arch Linux has dropped support for initscripts going forward. This leaves the Oxnas based devices in a state of limbo. The current kernel..." - should I avoid updating my arch linux (or maybe it is updating automatically)? I didn't use command "pacman -Syu" so far.
2. "If you want to have your plug automount drives when they're plugged in. Install the udev rules: pacman -Sy udev-automount". I installed it but i don't know if now every usb drive is automatically mounted after pluging it to pogo? If yes: is this service is working still after rebooting pogo or should I start it again?
3. How to check names of my drives (to use them in config files of samba, minidlna etc.)?
4. I tried to install samba according to http://obihoernchen.net/wordpress/770/plug_computer_arch_linux/. I installed it with "pacman -Sy minidlna" but I have problem with second step "systemctl enable minidlna". It gave me result "Operation failed: Invalid argument". I realized that also other commands from this page are not working, e.g. hostnamectl or timedatectl resulted with "Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory". I suppose that it is connected with systemd which I read something about but I am not sure. Maybe you can tell me what should I do to install this apps according to mentioned guide? Maybe I should replace some commands with other ones? Or maybe you can give me links to better (up to date) guides?
I will be really grateful for help!

***Edited
Ok, I've found that using "fdisk -l" I can check disks list. Normally there is only "/dev/sda1" with system, when I pluged additional pendrive there is also "/dev/sdb1". Does it mean that this additional disk is already mounted? And second question - can I just remove it from pogoplug or should I use any safe method like in Windows?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('megazal', 'H')i!

1. Firstly a little question about this text from installation guide "Upstream Arch Linux has dropped support for initscripts going forward. This leaves the Oxnas based devices in a state of limbo. The current kernel..." - should I avoid updating my arch linux (or maybe it is updating automatically)? I didn't use command "pacman -Syu" so far.

[megazal]

Thank you for help! I can start minidlna with your command But I'm still not sure about usb drives. When I connect pendrive formated on Windows I have such information:

1. with fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 2003 MB, 2003828736 bytes, 3913728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 10 3913599 1956795 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 4008 MB, 4008706048 bytes, 7829504 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 32 7829503 3914736 b W95 FAT32

2. with df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 1926024 925140 903048 51% /
/dev/root 1926024 925140 903048 51% /
devtmpfs 62632 0 62632 0% /dev
run 62704 192 62512 1% /run
shm 62704 0 62704 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 3907088 627236 3279852 17% /media/hd-sdb1

I don't know if this pendrive is already mounted. If not could you tell me how to mount it in easy way?

And two more questions:
How to automatically start apps (like minidlna) after system reboot? Should I edit any confog file?
How to see list of files and directories which are in current directory. I tried with "dir" command but it doesn't give any effect.

[Geoff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('megazal', '
')How to automatically start apps (like minidlna) after system reboot? Should I edit any confog file?

[Socaltom]

The pen drive is mounted as /media/hd-sdb1


to list contents of a directory type ls -l

Here is a list of Linux commands
http://ss64.com/bash/


To mount a drive the command is

Mount /dev/sdx# /(where ever you want to mount it)
For example. Mount /dev/sdb1. /media/movies


However the mount location must exist first.
mkdir /media/movies Will make the mount point
Tom



Tom

[megazal]

Hi again

I think I can run minidlna but unfortunately i cannot see any files. Below I explain all steps I made and problems I found trying to run it correctly:

1) I formated usb drive (pen 8gb) with ext2 system (under ubuntu live version), called it Test, created directories and copied there some files according to below scheme:
/Films/film.avi
/Music/Album1/(a lor of mp3 files)
/Music/Album2/(a lor of mp3 files)

2) I plug this pendrive into pogoplug

3) after "fdisk -l" I have such effect:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 15654239 7827088+ b W95 FAT32
Why it is recognized as W95 FAT32 (In Win 8 this pen is unrecognizable)?

4) after "df" command I can see following info:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 1926024 925180 903008 51% /
/dev/root 1926024 925180 903008 51% /
devtmpfs 62632 0 62632 0% /dev
run 62704 192 62512 1% /run
shm 62704 0 62704 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 7704136 896592 6416192 13% /media/Test
I can cd into /media then Test and its directories and see files with "dir" command.

5) With "nano /etc/minidlna.conf" I edited conf file - I added two lines:
media_dir=V,/media/Test/Films
media_dir=A,/media/Test/Music

6) When I started minidlna by "/etc/rc.d/minidlna start" I got following comment:
:: Starting minidlna [BUSY]
[2013/03/25 17:27:48] minidlna.c:475: error: Media directory "/media/Testowy/Filmy" not accessible! [Permission denied]
[2013/03/25 17:27:48] minidlna.c:475: error: Media directory "/media/Testowy/Muzyka" not accessible! [Permission denied]
daemon(): Permission denied [DONE]

7) Despite of above mentioned errors minidlna was working because it was visible in Win 8 and also in my TV set (without any files, only with empty default directiories like Music, Video, Pictures and them subdirectories)

8) I tried to find something in Internet and now I suppose that default user of minidlna (nobody) doesn't have correct permissons. Therefore I edited other conf with "nano /etc/conf.d/minidlna" and changed INIDLNA_USER=nobody to INIDLNA_USER=root

9) Now it runs without mentioned minidlna.c:475: errors but still cannot see any files through Win 8 or TV set and I don't have any idea why and what should I do...
10) I tried to add line "db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna" in /etc/minidlna.conf but it hasn't changed anything.

11) I'm also not sure if running minidlna as a root is ok.

I will be very thankful for any help and suggestions!

[megazal]

Please help me

I can already run minidlna without any errors using nobody user. I used chmod command to 777 all directories and files, I also used chown command to change user and group of all files on my pendrive with media to nobody (previously both were 999). Then I met next error "deamon(): Permission denied". So I have found in Internet that I should a line:
SUBSYSTEM=="mem", KERNEL=="null|zero|full|random|urandom", MODE="0666"
to /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules in the # mem section and reboot. I did it and now I can run minidlna without errors. The problem is that I still have the same situation - I can see multimedia server called "alarm: nobody" in all my devices (laptop, PS3, TV) but I cannot see any files there. I also cannot see any subdirectories of my pendrive, even these ones that I made with mkdir command directly in pendrive connected to pogoplud (via ssh).
My pendrive is mounted in /media/PendriveName so I used in /etc/minidlna.conf a lot of combinations of "media_dir=/media/PendriveName" with A, V letter and with subdirectories of my pendrive but nothing has changed. I don't have any idea what to do. The only things I can imagine but unfortunately cannot do are:
- adding nobody user to my system
- chmod /media to 777
- mount my pendrive in other way ot into other directory

[Socaltom]

Did you follow the instructions here to rebuild the DB?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MiniDLNA

[megazal]

Thanks for help! I checked my configs one more time, deleted all files from cache and log directories and also increased inotify watches and now minidlna works

Now I'm trying to run samba. Unfortunately I didn't have samba in /etc/rc.d. I made this file according to http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4970. When I type "rc.d start samba" I have following comments:
/usr/sbin/smbd: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by /usr/sbin/smbd)
/usr/sbin/nmbd: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by /usr/sbin/nmbd)
Using commad "pacman -Sy samba" (but not installing it) I have following info:
warning: samba-3.6.13-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
So I think I have samba-3.6.13-1. I tried to find samba-3.6.11-4-arm on the internet to download it and install from disk but without any success. I'm not sure if installing this older version will solve my problems but currently I don't have any other idea how to win against these GLIBC_2.17 errors. Is there any chance to run samba on my pogo?

[Geoff]

It sounds like you just need to "pacman -Syu" again so that your glibc and everything else will be up to date.