USB support & minidlna

NBG6716 comes with 2USB ports and minidlna/samba so here's how to do that with owrt
install kmod-usb-core
install kmod-usb-ohci
install kmod-usb2
install kmod-usb-storage
install block-mount
then it complains about fstab missing, so create one
block detect > /etc/fstab
then throw in some filesystemsupport
install kmod-nls-utf8 kmod-fs-vfat kmod-fs-ext4 kmod-nls-cp437 kmod-nls-iso8859-1
then set your mount point via system>mount points.
and install minidlna and the luci_app
install minidlna (installs way more than needed but we've got plenty of space)
install minidlna-luci-app
basic config via services>minidlna
i like to put the db on my USB device so as not to keep updating that on flash,
you can find the location for the database under the advanced tab.

and now throw in samba
install samba36-server
install luci-app-samba
under services>network shares set
share home directories to '0' (i only want to give access to mounted media)
also make sure to give rw permissions to the mount drive (umask=000 doesn't work on ext4)

but all in all performance is underwhelming. Not clear where the bottleneck is put averages out around 5-6MB/s with steady dips to 4 and below.

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