DLNA-- must have a USB drive ?

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Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:38am
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Rekees
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DLNA-- must have a USB drive ?

I'm wondering if I could set the video/audio file library to a path on one of the computers connected, through LAN sharing or something? Or do I have to attach a USB drive to the router?

I'm a newbie. If this is too simple and naive, forgive me.

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Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:28am
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Brandon C
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In 'theory' you could do it

In 'theory' you could do it by using a small thumb drive.
You could plug it into the router then set it up for MiniDLNA. Creating the database on the thumb drive.

Then by using something like mount.cifs http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.html to get it to mount your computer shares.

You probably would have to do some 'experimenting' to see if you could get it working.

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Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:39pm
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Rekees
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I've not figured out the

I've not figured out the relations between the thumb drive and CIFS.
If I could get a network share mounted using CIFS, that doesn't mean I could directly specify the mounted path as the library path and create the database there? So why use the thumb drive?

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Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:47pm
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Toastman
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But what would be the point?

But what would be the point? You may as well run the server on the PC.

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Sat, 10/08/2011 - 7:55am
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Rekees
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So that is supported?

So that is supported?
I wanna do that because I wanna cut the trouble of installing a DLNA server. I tried windows media player 12, and I'm not quite into it.

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