Universal Media Server | Forum

Hi all,
I'm planning on installing the latest version of UMS(4.2.1 as of this writing) on my file server with Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 64-bit. After some reading on this forum as well as the PMS one, I thought it should be simple as download-untar-run. However that's not really the case. I use WMP on a win8.1 machine as renderer, it can discover the UMS server, but lists no file when I know there are files that are of compatible format. I'm wondering if there is a tutorial somewhere regarding installing UMS on ubuntu 14.04, i.e. which version of JDK to use and where to get it, what are some gotchas on editing configuration file, etc. Thanks in advance.

Hi

I am a newbie to Linux but I managed to install UMS on UBUNTU server 14.04.1
I followed the installation as described in
http://www.slsmk.com/how-to-install-uni ... less-mode/

I changed the installation of JAVA and installed UMS-4.2.1-Java7 in /opt directory
I copied the UMS startscript in Notepad and removed the leading blanks in the first 13 lines (all # lines)
also remove cariage return in each line because linux doesn't like it
(UMS script will not run ===> BASH;...... file not found)

editing the UMS.conf file
server name = ???????? or leave as default
folders=/path to folder1/,/path to folder2

I have described how i did it in another thread:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2211#p12013