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Thx for your extensive help! A few things to tweak, but I can see the way forward. Your startup script will be useful. I'm curious why you have so many versions?

OK working...I pointed SHARED.conf to a more limited folder with 2 movies saved as .avi and it showed up on the PS3 and also on a browser pointed to my server:9002. So it was stumbling on my old .mp4 vids. Just a few things to nail down. Should I just leave it running so it will be available when I ...

OK, tried altering the SHARED.conf file from "/home/ron" to "/home/ron/datax/video" which is the directory where I keep my g'kids videos etc which were accessed before by Twonky. Started UMS.sh which started OK: ***cut***INFO 12:24:33.874 [main] Transcoding engine "VLC Web Video (Legacy)" is ...

Made the changes to ~/.config UMS.conf that you suggested, and to better understand read thru the entire file.
My ~/.config UMS.conf file does not have a section for Shared Folders. My SHARED.conf file reads: [
{
"file": "/opt/ums-12.0.1",
"monitored": true,
"metadata": true,
"active": true ...

Thx for your posts...especially since you have working experience with a headless linux server! As you suggested, deleted and started over. Ownership and permissions as suggested. In the INSTALL.txt rechecked those steps to make sure all prerequisites were installed OK...all were. On the final step ...

I have been running UMS on a headless Gentoo Linux server for many years.
Where did UMS Install? Was it /opt/ums ?
Where are the configuration files (UMS.conf) etc. installed?
As mentioned, I installed Java, mplayer etc, then extracted the ums linux-64 download in /opt. Read the install.txt and ...

Installed java, ffmpeg, etc, extracted the ums download in /opt. Then as root ran UMS.sh...maybe a mistake. the .config files and probably others were not accessible. Changed owner/group to my user...but still seems not right. I want this for a simple purpose...to serve home videos of g'kids to my ...