Access window shares

[jriker1 16]

Couldn't find a good answer to this, lot of people guessing or doing ungodly mapping on the OS level of shares to other servers.  Anyway, I currently have Emby running on a physical server that has an attached storage drive.  This is all Windows 2016.  Accounts are all local Active Directory based.  I am now trying to setup Emby on a Linux virtual and access those shares.  So I know Emby is running as user "emby" in Linux.  User doesn't login and doesn't have a password.  I assume when I try and UNC map Folders in Emby it's trying to access them as "emby" so that would fail.  How am I supposed to get this to work short of switching back to a Windows install of Emby?

[Luke 37262]

HI, I would suggest mounting the shares to a local path using the linux OS, then add that local path into Emby Server. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[richt 73]

As Luke mentioned, the first thing to do is to mount the shares to a local path, but you'll need to make sure that you are using an account and password that the Windows server recognizes.

example:

sudo mount -t cifs //windows_server_ip_address/share_name /mnt/local_folder_name -o username=windows_account,password=windows_password

Make sure to assign the Emby Linux account appropriate permissions to the local folder.  Once you get that tested out and validated, update /etc/fstab so that they auto mount at boot time.