Using ubuntu server as a media server.

Cooners · 2 Jan 2012 at 15:41

Hi
I've set up a ubuntu server at home (well a vm though esxi), I'm trying my best to do everything though terminal rather than installing gnome, I'm having 2 issues.
First I've set up sabNZB+ to download but if I set it to download onto my MYBOOKWORLD it creates a directory but the owner is changed to 99 or something with only the owner having permission to access the directory, how do I stop this from happening?
Second once HDD prices calm down I will fill this up with hard drives ditch the NAS and install a media streamer, I need a media streamer that I can install and set up though terminal and it would be a bonus if it was free, I'm not fussed about transcoding as the server I'm using proberley won't handle it anyway.

derfderfley · 2 Jan 2012 at 19:46

Check the preferences in sabnzb and make sure that the file permissions are set to something more useful on downloaded files (should be under config>folders).

I'm using serviio to stream files (it's a free DNLA server), twnoky is supposed to be good but requires (a cheap'ish) licence. I'm sure there are others ?

kkelly · 3 Jan 2012 at 15:22

Playstation media server

(http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/)

derfderfley · 3 Jan 2012 at 19:28

kkelly said:
Playstation media server

(http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/)

Good, bad, indifferent?

Cooners · 3 Jan 2012 at 19:29

Also yes I've set the permission setting in sabNZBd but still doesn't seem to work when I save to the NAS.

Yeah I've looked at that one, anyone got any instructions on installing it and running it with no GUI?

derfderfley · 4 Jan 2012 at 19:50

Cooners said:
Also yes I've set the permission setting in sabNZBd but still doesn't seem to work when I save to the NAS.

If your saving to directly to a NAS, you need to look at it's default file permissions.

Cooners said:
Yeah I've looked at that one, anyone got any instructions on installing it and running it with no GUI?

Pretty easy to be honest, you do need a GUI of some form for some of it's settings, but there are a couple of web front ends that will take care of that.
I seem to think that one of them does not require apache installed, which is a bonus.
Have a look on the serviio forums, the support on there seems good from what I've seen.