uPNP on FreeNAS was working fine with PS3, now my housemate has moved out and taken the PS3.

We have been trying to get it to work on XBOX360… no luck, we can only see one movie… and NO music whatsoever… I changed the profile to DLNA and I can now see all my folders, the files had Xs next to them and would not play.

I tried “rebuild virtual container” and such, but nothing seams to work.

can anyone help?

-Dan

I am planing to install a freeNAS on an old PC after finishing some upgrades. I hope you can help me in that. Please, send me you email add through which i can contact you, obviously I am unable to find it here.
Thanks.

Any ideas?

I would also like to thank Rob for the excellent guides.

Why does this not happen automatically? Before setting up FreeNAS, I was using Windows Media Player 11 on my WinXP machine to stream media to my Xbox 360. Whenever I added new media it showed up automatically on my Xbox 360. Is there a setting that preventing my FreeNAS from doing this automatically? I hate to go back to WMP11 on my WinXP machine because I wanted FreeNAS to free up resources on that machine.

I have CIFS/SMB enabled (does not affect UPnP).

Thanks for all the help.

It’s good for me Peter with that name “freenas: seee” or another name complex.
To see my shared files I had to disable the CIFS / SMB service and my files are now visible.
For my part, I activated the AFP service because I use OSX and the UPnP service.

My post above on the IPs misses out the tags as they are not displayed when I submit the post but basically inside the allowed_ips section you have to add an ip tag (surrounded with greater than and less than bracket), your xbox ip address then a closing ip tag (less than, forward slash, greater than).

For me to get it working properly I needed both of the above amendments to the file. The only problem is when you add the IP address you can no longer use the fuppes web user interface from the freeNAS UPnP page so you cannot rebuild your containers or DB when you add new files. The way I have got round this is to create two files in the /etc/rc.d folder, one with the ip in and one without. I just switch them from the command line then restart the service from the freeNAS interface when I need to access the fuppes web interface to rebuild the DB. Once done I switch them back and restart again.

Interestingly enough, now I have removed the IP tag and left the friendly name bit in there and it all seems to be working i.e. I can see it from the 360 and edit it through the web interface :0)

By the way, while I am at it the only automated solution I can find to get fuppes to see new files that I put on the shares it to schedule nightly rebuilds of the database and container files. I have added the following to the cron (system|advanced|cron):

/etc/rc.d/fuppes rebuilddb
/etc/rc.d/fuppes rebuildvcont

I have experimented and it looks like you have to do both in order for the xbox to see the updates. I have spaced them out to run @ 3am and 5am so the first one has time to complete (each takes about 40 mins with my data).

here is the code dan was speaking about in his last post.

this code goes in the xbox 360 description section.

I added allowed ips too, but if you don’t all ips are allowed.

I know the last post was a while ago but this thread helped me along so I thought I would add my further findings to get my xbox 360 connected.

I have been trying to get the above working all day now and finally got it sorted. I found Ian’s comment about the IP to be correct and that if you add it to the config file it works. However every time I added it as suggested it failed. I then tried adding it directly to the to the fuppes.cfg file and restarted the service but each time I restarted the file was overwritten.

After a lot of digging I found that you could edit the /etc/rc.d/fuppes file which is the file that creates the fuppes.cfg file when the service is restarted. This file can be edited using freeNAS’s Advanced|File Editor. Look for:

and add your xbox ip address between tags, e.g.:

192.168.1.100

Then save the file and go to the uPNP service page and hit save and restart to re-create the fuppes.cfg file. You should now be able to see your files from your xbox.

Hope that helps someone.

I know what you mean about the IP appears to go away, I believe it does take the information also – I ran into something similar. Also try restarting the service, enable disable after you complete all these steps.

well i went through your steps, but that last bit about adding the xbox IP on the config page – theres the bit at the top of the page that says:
“Device and file settings are currently not configurable via this webinterface.
Please edit the file: /var/etc/fuppes.cfg ”

when i do enter an IP, it seems to take, but on a refresh it goes away.

i also noticed that when i rebuild the database, i see this error in the system log:

“kernel: pid 3578 (fuppesd), uid 0 inumber 3200 on /: filesystem full”

i’m guessing thats the root of my problem? i’m booting off a thumb drive… i’m not sure how big it is, i’ve got a 1G one right here – i’ll try that one too.

thanks.

Finally In the web user interface I did the following:
From the configuration page I added the IP address of my xbox 360 (at the bottom, submit query)

lot of different names for me… it is Iain, not Ian or Lain… thanks anyway though ppl.

Hope this helps adam

i have a PC on my network running tversity which does work with my 360 (so i’m assuming that my network is cool for uPnP) – but could that be causing a conflict?

TIA, TJ