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I have been playing with the media servers and would like to access mDLNA from my iphone over my 3G. Is it possible to secure the port with some authentication system for this server?

And does anyone know if it possible to allow a ps3 or xbox360 to browse and stream from rar movie files?

I would like exactly the same thing. For that we need VPN I guess. I dont know if iphone support VPN and what protocol, but I got it to work with android with pptp on my windows pc. Now all we need is a server for ARM linux.

iphone supports PPTP connections. I am not quite yet happy with the streaming solutions. They seem to want organise all my tracks alphabetically rather than by track number and I haven't generated playlists for all my albums.

What you can do is adding all your music files to iTunes and let iTunes organize the folders. It puts it in this way: Artist->Album->01 name
You can also use ID3-TagIT or Tag&Rename for renaming using ID3 tags.
Btw:
For your PS3 you could use this: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/ it claims it can browse rar/zip as a folder and stream music/movies from it
Edit: Hmm it seams this is only a way to stream TO your ps3, not FROM... I guess you'll have to install Ubuntu on your PS3 first. You can use Mediatomb on your NAS for .rar/.zip file (search for mediatomb transcoding) but I don't know if it will be fast enough. Of course you can always extract the rar yourself using SSH or even using a script in a cron job which automatically unrars/unzips all rars/zips automatically and removes them afterwards.

Thanks for the tips. All my music is oggvorbis format and apple doesn't support that format. All my music is actually strictly formatted like this anyway. Unfortunately, none of the streamers supplied have any categorization and don't seem to allow me to set up paths. I don't want a huge list with a million albums in it. I'd like to put them in sub genres.

I have kind of given up with all this. Nothing seems to work just how I would like it to. Now I just use XBMC for video and music but even that is not perfect and has mediocre music support.

You might want to use Mediatomb's import script. It can create a virtual layout.
See http://mediatomb.cc/pages/scripting
It's quite hard to set up but you can see some examples here:
http://mediatomb.cc/dokuwiki/scripting:scripting

I don't know if it will work for OGG Vorbis but it's worth a shot.
Some scripting experience is needed though.
Let me know if this worked for you.

oh thanks. i will try it out.

I write scripts for a living haha.