Comments on: Turn Fedora into a PS3 Media Server [Tutorial]

By: Ravnos

Ravnos — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:42:39 +0000

It is a permission problem, the init.d script starts with user “ushare”, if ushare cannot access your music folder then it will fail list its content. To fix this you may change user “ushare” to “root” like this:

…
start() {
echo -n $”Starting $prog: ”
daemon –user root $prog -d -D
…

note that this is potentially unsafe. Another option is to give proper permissions to the shared directories.

By: Derek@TheDailyLinux

Derek@TheDailyLinux — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:20:32 +0000

Perhaps a permissions issue with the files you’ve placed in the shared folder? Try ‘chmod 777 filename’ on one or two files to test and if it works, then work down from there to find out the sweet spot for file permissions (775, 755, …).

By: Lina Lina

Lina Lina — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:36:32 +0000

or anyone else that has solved this problem. please advise.. thanks

By: Lina Lina

Lina Lina — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:35:46 +0000

Im having a problem here, I can see the folder on PS3 but I dont see any of the files that I had placed there in Fedora.. Derek, can you provide some suggestions ?

Thanks

By: sixfootmidget

sixfootmidget — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:32:36 +0000

i too share bob and kevin’s problem. ive tried mediatomb with the same end result (no files found) i thought it might be a permission issue too but changing the permissions did nothing. this whole process has been completely infuriating.

By: chandra sekhar

chandra sekhar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:35:26 +0000

am unable to see the file that i have shared,my ps3 shows no titles found

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:50:21 +0000

I’m not sure about the other problems you’re having, but you’re probably right about the port forwarding… it might not be required.

By: Curtiss

Curtiss — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:29:48 +0000

I’m having a few problems, i got it to work, but i had to disable the firewall in Fedora, and i’m not really trying to do that, just for testing… Also, once i got connected I couldn’t see any files in the shared folder similar to what a few others were saying… Any ideas would be great. Also why is port forwarding required??? I have my PS3 open on my router, so i can browse the internet and such… Thanks

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:33:33 +0000

There are similarities between the two systems, but I can’t verify that it will work for sure. The best advice I can give is to try it out for yourself!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:24:44 +0000

Thanks for this great tutorial. Can I assume the same steps would work for Ubuntu?