I am using TomatoUSB which has the nice GUI for controlling DLNA. However, there are a couple of options that are not included in the GUI which I wish to manually edit (root_container, so that I can keep the browsing clean, and friendly_name, so I can give it a more descriptive name, such as "DLNA Server"). I edit /etc/minidlna.conf but as soon as I even restart minidlna, the .conf file is being overwritten by the settings I had saved through the GUI (removing my root_container and friendly_name settings). I even went as far as trying to write my minidlna.conf to nvram. Is there another location that Tomato stores its .conf?
no, but config file is re-generation every time when you click save button. You can disable minidlna from GUI, copy minidlna.conf file from /etc to /jffs or usb drive, edit conf file and start minidlna manually minidlna -f /path/to/minidlna.conf
