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Cue
12-04-2009, 09:22 PM
Got my N900 today. Spent the whole day playing with it and loved every minute. :D
There is 1 thing I can't sort out though and that is DLNA. even though my NAS device shows up and the folders are visible I can't actually play anything.
MP3, avi you name it, they all say

"Unable to find media file"

I have no idea what that means exactly, the files are visible in the directory that means it knows they are there but they just don't play.

seeing as I'm on the subject of NAS has anybody got password protected samba shares showing up on their file manager? I saw threads about getting it working on an N810 but not N900.
that would be amazing and would give me almost limitless space on such a small device.
Cue
12-05-2009, 07:57 PM
nobody else having this problem?
phreck
12-05-2009, 08:05 PM
not me. works fin with my dlink nas
Cue
12-05-2009, 08:34 PM
That's good to hear. least there is hope, but dammit why isn't mine working. Do I have to enable uPnP on the n900 somewhere? don't know whether the problem is the N900 or my NAS but it works on my PS3 so I'm guessing N900. any idea what the error could mean?
Death Scythe
12-05-2009, 09:18 PM
Might it be your router settings? Phreck, what router are you using and what encryption?
Cue
12-05-2009, 09:37 PM
perhaps it is, I'll check the settings to see if I spot anything but seeing as it works on another device (PS3) makes me think it's not a problem on the router side.

I'm using WEP (I know it sucks) on a DIR-855 router.
phreck
12-05-2009, 10:06 PM
Might it be your router settings? Phreck, what router are you using and what encryption?


just an old wrt54g with WPA2 tkip. no forwarding is setup or anything crazy.
Cue
12-05-2009, 10:16 PM
OK I did some further testing and found that watching videos and listening to music on the N900 works from a vista machine with media sharing turned on. this means that the NAS device might not be compatible with the N900 which would be rather strange seeing as that is the point of being DLNA certified. Either the N900 is to blame or my NAS device.
Death Scythe
12-05-2009, 10:50 PM
just an old wrt54g with WPA2 tkip. no forwarding is setup or anything crazy.

And you're using a dlink NAS. Cue, it could either be your NAS settings (which I doubt,as you said it's DLNA certified) or even the router's firewall settings, as Phreck seems to have kept his router setup pretty simple.
Cue
12-05-2009, 11:03 PM
I've been looking at my NAS settings, I changed my codepage from english to Unicode and I'm currenty re-indexing my files to see if that is the problem. will report back once it's done.

UPDATE: Nope still doesn't work. :(
sjgadsby
12-05-2009, 11:51 PM
...has anybody got password protected samba shares showing up on their file manager? I saw threads about getting it working on an N810 but not N900.

Out of the box, previous Maemo releases supported non-password protected CIFS shares. That feature is missing in Maemo 5.

CIFS support had never been a feature Nokia specifically sought for Maemo devices, instead it was a pleasant side-effect of Maemo using a piece of Gnome, GnomeVFS, that provided it along with other things. Gnome though, abandoned GnomeVFS in early 2008.

So, CIFS support in Maemo 5 will need to be added by a third party.