ushare doesn't like the fact that eth0 is down even though I am using wlan0

Question

I'm trying to use ushare to share my music collection with my Xbox.

I am using the following command line:

ushare -i wlan0 -x -c ~/Music/

But I get the following as an error:

Interface eth0 is down.
Recheck uShare's configuration and try again !
ioctl: Cannot assign requested address

I have an ethernet adapter in my PC but it's not connected. How can I get it to be happy with wlan0?

Answer 1

Simple answer this one (i hope):

ushare needs to run as root (maybe not, see commments)

1. Rather than starting it with the command you've mentioned, try doing this:

   sudo service ushare start
   

   after you've set all of the options in the configuration file.

   The configuration the error message is mentioning is located at /etc/ushare.conf (or perhaps /etc/ushare/ushare.conf I'm not sure). In it, you'll be able to set the network interface permanently.

   These are the relevant bits:

   # Interface to listen to (default is eth0).
   # Ex : USHARE_IFACE=eth1
   USHARE_IFACE=wlan0
   
   
   # Directories to be shared (space or CSV list).
   # Ex: USHARE_DIR=/dir1,/dir2
   USHARE_DIR=/home/rich/Music
   

   Two things additionally: I don't know what -x and -c do, i hope there's an option for it in the configuration. Secondly, the directories in USHARE_DIR might have to be absolute path (i.e. not ~ but /home/rich or whatever your user name is).

2. If all of this doesn't work properly, or if you just don't want to try it out, you can also just run your command prepending sudo.

Note: my sources for ushare needing to be ran as root are all either concerning different Linux distribution or they are rather old. If this is no longer the case, please let me know - I don't want to send anybody down the wrong path.

Answer 2

you have to manually change the configuration

sudo gedit /etc/ushare.conf

from

USHARE_IFACE=eth0

to

USHARE_IFACE=wlan0