Permission Denied when minidlna tries to read locally mounted shares

[vegaramos1]

I recently installed Amahi 11 (Fedora 27). All my shares are Greyhole shares and I mounted them locally using the instructions provided here. The shares are mounted, but when I point minidlna to those shares locations I get a permission denied in the service status. Any suggestion on how I can get Minidlna to read these shares?


OS is up to date:

• [al@localhost ~]$ clear
  [al@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf update
  Last metadata expiration check: 2:04:05 ago on Thu 26 Sep 2019 08:52:46 PM EDT.
  Dependencies resolved.
  Nothing to do.
  Complete!

Minidlna Status:

• [al@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl status minidlna.service
  ● minidlna.service - MiniDLNA is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server software
  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/minidlna.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-09-26 22:52:53 EDT; 8s ago
  Main PID: 20528 (minidlnad)
  Tasks: 3 (limit: 9830)
  CGroup: /system.slice/minidlna.service
  └─20528 /usr/sbin/minidlnad -S
  
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: minidlna.c:1094: warn: TiVo support is enabled.
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:125: error: inotify_add_watch(/mnt/samba/Music) [Permission denied]
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:125: error: inotify_add_watch(/mnt/samba/Movies) [Permission denied]
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:125: error: inotify_add_watch(/mnt/samba/Pictures) [Permission denied]
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:125: error: inotify_add_watch(/mnt/samba/DVDs) [Permission denied]
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:125: error: inotify_add_watch(/mnt/samba/Music) [Permission denied]
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:125: error: inotify_add_watch(/mnt/samba/Movies) [Permission denied]
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:125: error: inotify_add_watch(/mnt/samba/Pictures) [Permission denied]
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:125: error: inotify_add_watch(/mnt/samba/DVDs) [Permission denied]
  Sep 26 22:52:53 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[20528]: monitor.c:218: warn: WARNING: Inotify max_user_watches [8192] is low or close to the number of used watches [8] and I do not

Locally Mounted Greyhole Shares

• [al@localhost /]$ ls -l /mnt/samba/
  total 0
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 8 23:20 Books
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 18 23:18 Crashplan
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 18 20:52 Docs
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 26 17:07 DVDs
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 18 06:08 ITunes
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 22 15:15 Movies
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 18 06:30 Music
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 21 19:04 Pictures
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 18 00:33 Podcast
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 8 23:21 Public
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 18 06:37 Software
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 8 23:21 TV
  drwxrwx--- 2 al users 0 Sep 18 20:42 Videos
  [al@localhost /]$

Minidlna Config File:

• # port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
  port=8200
  
  # network interfaces to serve, comma delimited
  network_interface=docker0
  
  # set this to the directory you want scanned.
  # * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
  # * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
  # can prepend the type, 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)
  media_dir=A,/mnt/samba/Music
  media_dir=V,/mnt/samba/Movies
  media_dir=P,/mnt/samba/Pictures
  media_dir=V,/mnt/samba/DVDs

[bigfoot65]

Ensure the share permissions are correctly set in the script.

Should be 775.

[vegaramos1]

I changed line number 28 in the mount_shares_locally file from:

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/sbin/mount.cifs "//127.0.0.1/$d" "$d" -o credentials=/home/${username}/.smb_credentials,uid=${uid},gid=${gid},file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770,nobrl,hard,_netd ev,iocharset=utf8,noserverino,mfsymlinks

To:

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/sbin/mount.cifs "//127.0.0.1/$d" "$d" -o credentials=/home/${username}/.smb_credentials,uid=${uid},gid=${gid},file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775,nobrl,hard,_netdev,iocharset=utf8,noserverino,mfsymlinks

Unmounted the shares with

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service mount_shares_locally stop

remounted the shares with

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systemctl daemon-reload service mount_shares_locally start

I restarted minidlna.service. The error messages are now gone, but it's not finding any of my files and when I check the dashboard I don't see the file count incrementing. I also don't see the log file in /var/log/minidlna. Any suggestions?

[bigfoot65]

You may need to remove the share directories in /mnt/samba after you stop the script.

Seems like I had to do that the last time I used it.

[vegaramos1]

So I removed the shares and re-added them. This time minidlna does index the shares correctly. However when I try to view any movie, picture, or listen to a song, the file is not played. It will just time out waiting. Any suggestions for this issue?

[bigfoot65]

I just realized that you don’t need to use locally mounted shares for dlna App.

That’s to use when modifying files via command line on the HDA. Read the first sentence for mount shares locally in the wiki

The app only reads and plays files, so no need to use the script.

Point the app to the normal shares path.

Sorry I didn’t think about this sooner.

[vegaramos1]

I've tried with both the locally mounted shares and the normal greyhole location (eg. /var/hda/files/music), but in both cases the result is the same, whenever I try to stream a file, the client times out. BTW, I tried reinstalling minidlna as well, but that didn't work either.

[bigfoot65]

Check /var/log/amahi-app-installer.log for errors.

Seems like there may be a component missing.

Also check system logs for indication of issues.

[vegaramos1]

I don't see anything in the installer logs to indicate a problem.

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Uninstalling app id ogiaus92x5 under /var/hda/platform/html/script/.. ENV=production Removing Amahi settings Stopping minidlna.service Disabling minidlna.service Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/minidlna.service. Reloading systemctl daemon Done! Your HDA services have been restarted. App: DLNA uninstalled ======= app uninstall end @ 2019-10-05 20:34:24 -0400 ========== ======= app install begin @ 2019-10-05 20:36:00 -0400 ========== Installing app id ogiaus92x5 under /var/hda/platform/html/script/.. ENV=production Your HDA services have been restarted. Your HDA services have been restarted. Configuring Amahi settings Reloading systemctl daemon Enabling minidlna.service Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/minidlna.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/minidlna.service. Starting minidlna.service App: DLNA installed ======= app install end @ 2019-10-05 20:36:30 -0400 ==========

systemctl status

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[alvin@localhost log]$ sudo systemctl status minidlna.service [sudo] password for alvin: ● minidlna.service - MiniDLNA is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server software Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/minidlna.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-10-20 17:48:19 EDT; 3 days ago Main PID: 1013 (minidlnad) Tasks: 3 (limit: 9830) CGroup: /system.slice/minidlna.service └─1013 /usr/sbin/minidlnad -S Oct 20 17:48:19 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started MiniDLNA is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server software. Oct 20 17:48:29 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[1013]: minidlna.c:1048: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.2.1. Oct 20 17:48:38 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[1013]: minidlna.c:1089: warn: HTTP listening on port 8200 Oct 20 17:48:38 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[1013]: minidlna.c:1094: warn: TiVo support is enabled. Oct 20 17:48:38 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[1013]: getifaddr.c:109: error: Network interface docker0 not found Oct 20 17:48:55 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[1013]: minissdp.c:797: error: sendto(udp_shutdown=11): Network is unreachable Oct 20 17:48:55 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[1013]: minissdp.c:313: error: sendto(udp_notify=11, 172.17.0.1): Network is unreachable Oct 20 17:49:12 localhost.localdomain minidlnad[1013]: monitor.c:218: warn: WARNING: Inotify max_user_watches [8192] is low or close to the number of used watches [6748] and I do n