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Hi there -

I want to thank you for putting together such a great all-in-one-place guide for putting together a media server - I'm up and running now, and though there was a bunch of stuff I had to learn, I enjoyed it, and your guide certainly made it much easier.

Some other folks have suggested adding a little more to the section on MediaTomb, which would be great. For my part, a guide about putting together and mounting a RAID array would have been the most useful - I wound up finding one here - http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch26_:_Linux_Software_RAID#Prepare_The_Partitions_With_FDISK
-and it was really the only thing missing. I had wanted to put 4 physical drives together in RAID5 and have them behave as one volume - this got me there.

But to the point - MediaTomb has taken to disappearing from my list of media servers lately. Restarting the machine doesn't seem to fix it. I'm streaming to a Western Digital Live, whcih still sees the TVersity server on my windows machine. Also - now that this is happening, when I try to look at the web admin page for it, it can't find anything -

So does this server run automatically on startup? It has before - and if its stopped, I guess I need to know how to make it start up from now on...

Any help?

Thanks again for the guide!

Hi obsidiansun and welcome to the forums.

Yeah MediaTomb is not something I use myself so I'd need to get up to speed on it before I could put together some how-tos. As a result I'm afraid I can't shed any light on why yours has stopped running. Maybe the clue is in the logs? Perhaps you've installed/uninstalled something subsequently that has broken it? I guess you could try uninstalling it and re-installing it. That might do the trick?

Thanks for the link to the RAID how-to. As you may have read I went with FlexRAID but I know many people prefer traditional RAID so that how-to will come in handy for them.

Sorry I cannot be of more specific help with your MediaTomb problem.

Ian.

Thanks, all the same, Ian - I'll plug along. Cheers!