Minidlna error media directory not accessible

I tried following the examples in this thread but still could not get it to work. I ended up stumbling on this article here: Running minidlna on Ubuntu and followed it step by step and I now have the media on my second drive being served through minidnla. If any one else struggles I suggest you follow his process.

I have quoted his text in case his page ever disappears.

He installed a service called minidlna which is supposed to allow streaming of media. However, it didn’t like the permissions on his chosen folder.
The path is /media/jw/drive2/foo.

jw@FooPC:~$ sudo service minidlna restart
* Restarting DLNA/UPnP-AV media server minidlna
[2014/07/23 21:03:30] minidlna.c:594: error: Media directory "/media/jw/drive2/foo" not accessible [Permission denied]

He pointed it to a folder in his home folder and it liked that just fine, but not the 2nd drive that holds the media.

He tried setting the user as me in the conf file and in the default file. But eventually He discovered he had to set the user as “root” to make it work.

He opened terminal and entered …

sudo gedit /etc/default/minidlna

…and edited the file…

# User and group the daemon should run as
USER=”root”
#GROUP=”minidlna”

…then saved and back to terminal and entered…

sudo gedit /etc/minidlna.conf

… and edited the file…

# Specify the user name or uid to run as.
user=root

He restarted the service using…

sudo service minidlna restart

… in terminal and this time there was no error about permissions.

I hope that helps someone as it helped me. If it helps you then please visit his page and leave him a comment like I did so he knows that his page is helping!

UPDATE:

This works straight away but if you power off the machine and then restart it the second drive is not served by the minidnla server until you run:

sudo service minidlna restart

Getting it to work from bootup is a user-mode drive problem and can be fixed by adding the drive to fstab. The downside is that the system will not boot automatically if the drive is not plugged in, as it will annoyingly demand to retry or ignore before continuing to boot.

An alternative to adding the drive to fstab is to restart the minidlna service at reboot from cron:

sudo crontab -e

then add the next line at the end of the file:

@reboot sleep 60 && sudo service minidlna restart

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# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
# port=8200

# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited
# network_interface=eth0

# specify the user account name or uid to run as
# user=minidlna

# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if you want multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to specific content types, you
# can prepend the types, followed by a comma, to the directory:
# + «A» for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
# + «V» for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
# + «P» for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
# + «PV» for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/home/jmaggard/digital_camera)
# media_dir=/opt
media_dir=V,/home/kostya/Видео

# set this to merge all media_dir base contents into the root container
# note: the default is no
#merge_media_dirs=no

# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
friendly_name=Linux Server

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache
db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file
log_dir=/var/log

# set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged
# each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug
#log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn

# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash («/»)
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg

# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes

# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no

# set this to beacon to use legacy broadcast discovery method
# defauts to bonjour if avahi is available
tivo_discovery=bonjour

# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.
# * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,
# which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.
strict_dlna=no

# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php

# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.
notify_interval=60

# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
#serial=12345678
#model_number=1

# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket
#minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock

# use different container as root of the tree
# possible values:
# + «.» — use standard container (this is the default)
# + «B» — «Browse Directory»
# + «M» — «Music»
# + «V» — «Video»
# + «P» — «Pictures»
# + Or, you can specify the ObjectID of your desired root container (eg. 1$F for Music/Playlists)
# if you specify «B» and client device is audio-only then «Music/Folders» will be used as root
#root_container=.

# always force SortCriteria to this value, regardless of the SortCriteria passed by the client
#force_sort_criteria=+upnp:class,+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:title

# maximum number of simultaneous connections
# note: many clients open several simultaneous connections while streaming
#max_connections=50

# set this to yes to allow symlinks that point outside user-defined media_dirs.
#wide_links=no