Emby Permissions

[splitcold 0]

I cant figure this out at all, I really need some simple instructions so emby can view my media. 

 

Fresh install of Ubuntu, my username is matt, the other harddrive is called Movies using NTFS 

 

I am too stupid to figure this out on my own, and the guides here are like calculus and I know basic 1+2 

 

Thank you if you can help

Edited December 30, 2017 by splitcold

[mastrmind11 717]

I cant figure this out at all, I really need some simple instructions so emby can view my media. 

 

Fresh install of Ubuntu, my username is matt, the other harddrive is called Movies using NTFS 

 

I am too stupid to figure this out on my own, and the guides here are like calculus and I know basic 1+2 

 

Thank you if you can help

If you followed the instructions for installing Emby on Linux, then you're running Emby as user:group emby:emby.  You need to grant the mounted folder on your Linux machine read/write access to emby.  Do this.. go to the command line on your Linux box and type:  

ls -l /path/to/Movies

and post the results here.  My guess is you're share is mounted as matt:matt, in which case the easiest way to get it to work is to add the emby user to the matt group and ensure the matt group has read permission.  Post the results and we'll go from there.

Edited December 30, 2017 by mastrmind11

[splitcold 0]

Thank you for your help

 

matt@MediaServer:~$ ls -l /media/matt/ Movies/Media
ls: cannot access 'Movies/Media': No such file or directory
/media/matt/:
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt 8192 Dec 29 19:09  Movies
 

[mastrmind11 717]

Thank you for your help

 

matt@MediaServer:~$ ls -l /media/matt/ Movies/Media

ls: cannot access 'Movies/Media': No such file or directory

/media/matt/:

total 8

drwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt 8192 Dec 29 19:09  Movies

 

Looks like you have a space after the matt/, which is why it couldn't find the path.  Yeah thats why, you need to add emby to the matt group:

sudo useradd -G matt emby

This'll add emby to matt as a secondary group, which means you'll need to make sure matt group has at least read access to everything (which it will), and write access to everything (which it will).  Post back your results.

[splitcold 0]

Sorry was away from the computer for a few days, so I put another fresh install of Ubuntu and this doesn't work. I renamed the drives in windows now data1 and so on because that drive did have a space before movies.

 

 

matt@mattserver:~$ sudo useradd -G matt emby
[sudo] password for matt:
useradd: user 'emby' already exists
 

 

 

and still cant not get emby to see my media.

Edited January 3, 2018 by splitcold

[dcrdev 251]

Sorry was away from the computer for a few days, so I put another fresh install of Ubuntu and this doesn't work. I renamed the drives in windows now data1 and so on because that drive did have a space before movies.

 

I tried:

matt@mattserver:~$ ls -l /media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies

ls: cannot access '/media/matt/data1/Media/4k': No such file or directory

ls: cannot access 'movies': No such file or directory

 

 

and matt@mattserver:~$ sudo useradd -G matt emby

[sudo] password for matt:

useradd: user 'emby' already exists

 

 

 

and still cant not get emby to see my media.

 

 

Right firstly:

sudo useradd -G matt emby

Should be:

sudo usermod -aG matt emby

Then

ls -l /media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies

Should be:

 ls -hlpa "/media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies"

For good measure let's also see your mountpoints:

lsblk -o name,mountpoint

Finally let's see if you are applying any masks in fstab:

cat /etc/fstab

Edited January 3, 2018 by dcrdev

[splitcold 0]

thanks for your help.

 

matt@mattserver:~$ ls -hlpa "/media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies"
total 362G
drwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt  24K Jan  3 15:01 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt 4.0K Nov 20 08:32 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 2 matt matt  11G Nov 11 17:58 Alien Covenant (2017).mkv
 

theres more media but I dont think you want to see all that

 

matt@mattserver:~$ lsblk -o name,mountpoint
NAME   MOUNTPOINT
sdf    
└─sdf1
sdd    
├─sdd2 /media/matt/data1
└─sdd1
sdb    
└─sdb1 /media/matt/data4
sdg    
└─sdg1
sde    
├─sde2
└─sde1
sdc    
├─sdc2
└─sdc1
sda    
├─sda2 /
├─sda3 [sWAP]
└─sda1 /boot/efi
sdh    
└─sdh1

 

matt@mattserver:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=f60286d4-aaf9-4a07-b799-17711e37fca8 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=91C5-2C28  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=dc02ca67-d6f4-432c-9b8d-7d96a0689201 none            swap    sw    

 

 

I thought doing the

sudo usermod -aG matt emby

would solve the problem but when I add a folder

/media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies 

I still get The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again.

Edited January 3, 2018 by splitcold

[dcrdev 251]

Well you didn't even need to add emby to your user group - as the above output says that everyone has read,write,execute.
 
That drive isn't in your fstab... how did you mount the drive in the first place? I'm guessing you're using a desktop environment and it's being automounted in that, right? In which case it'll be handled by gvfs which handles filesystem mounts in a weird way.
 
You need to mount the disk natively and elsewhere, in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/data1
sudo echo "UUID=$(lsblk -no UUID /dev/sdd2) /media/data1 ntfs-3g permissions,nofail,auto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
sudo reboot
sudo chown -R matt:matt /media/data1
sudo chmod -R u+rwX /media/data1
sudo chmod -R g+rwX /media/data1
sudo chmod -R o+rX /media/data1
sudo systemctl restart emby-server

Your data will now be mounted under /media/data1 permanently, it will be owned by you and your group and you and your group will have read/execute, everyone else will only have read.

[splitcold 0]

Will give this a shot right now, thank you. I just opened the drive the desktop environment that comes with ubuntu. 

[splitcold 0]

Hey I get

matt@mattserver:~$ sudo echo "UUID=$(lsblk -no UUID /dev/sdd2) /media/data1 ntfs-3g permissions,nofail,auto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied
 

[dcrdev 251]

Sorry Ubuntu quirk - 

 

Use this:

echo "UUID=$(lsblk -no UUID /dev/sdd2) /media/data1 ntfs-3g permissions,nofail,auto 0 0" | sudo tee --append /etc/fstab

[splitcold 0]

thank you for helping with this, that worked, and rebooted

now

 

matt@mattserver:~$ sudo chown -R matt:matt /media/data1
chown: cannot access '/media/data1': No such file or directory

 

i changed it from sudo chown -R matt:matt /media/matt/data1 to sudo chown -R matt:matt /media/matt/data1

 

 

tried again in emby to add a folder, still cant get it to work


 

Edited January 3, 2018 by splitcold

[dcrdev 251]

thank you for helping with this, that worked, and rebooted

now

 

matt@mattserver:~$ sudo chown -R matt:matt /media/data1

chown: cannot access '/media/data1': No such file or directory

 

 

 

Doh! it's late apologies:

#This will probably complain - don't worry about it:
sudo umount /media/data1 && sudo rmdir /media/data1
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/data1

sudo sed -i 's/media/mnt/g' /etc/fstab
sudo reboot
sudo chown -R matt:matt /mnt/data1
sudo chmod -R u+rwX /mnt/data1
sudo chmod -R g+rwX /mnt/data1
sudo chmod -R o+rX /mnt/data1
sudo systemctl restart emby-server

[splitcold 0]

How do I test that this is working? I go to emby, add media library, folder add, /media/matt and its just red, tried to put /media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies in there to and it doesnt work.

 

Thanks again

[dcrdev 251]

How do I test that this is working? I go to emby, add media library, folder add, /media/matt and its just red, tried to put /media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies in there to and it doesnt work.

 

Thanks again

 

We've changed the mount point to "/mnt/data1" so add that.

[splitcold 0]

ran these 3 things again, if you need it

 

matt@mattserver:~$  ls -hlpa "/media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies"
total 362G
drwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt  24K Jan  3 15:01 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt 4.0K Nov 20 08:32 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 2 matt matt  11G Nov 11 17:58 Alien Covenant (2017).mkv
 

matt@mattserver:~$ lsblk -o name,mountpoint
NAME   MOUNTPOINT
sdf    
└─sdf1
sdd    
├─sdd2 /media/matt/data1
└─sdd1
sdb    
└─sdb1
sdg    
└─sdg1
sde    
├─sde2
└─sde1
sdc    
├─sdc2
└─sdc1
sda    
├─sda2 /
├─sda3 [sWAP]
└─sda1 /boot/efi
sdh    
└─sdh1

matt@mattserver:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=f60286d4-aaf9-4a07-b799-17711e37fca8 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=91C5-2C28  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=dc02ca67-d6f4-432c-9b8d-7d96a0689201 none            swap    sw              0       0
matt@mattserver:~$

 

[splitcold 0]

Okay I added /mnt/data1 but there seems to be nothing in there. viewed it in the file browser that comes with ubuntu from, computer to mnt folder, to data1 and its empty

Edited January 4, 2018 by splitcold

[dcrdev 251]

ran these 3 things again, if you need it

 

matt@mattserver:~$  ls -hlpa "/media/matt/data1/Media/4k movies"

total 362G

drwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt  24K Jan  3 15:01 ./

drwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt 4.0K Nov 20 08:32 ../

-rwxrwxrwx 2 matt matt  11G Nov 11 17:58 Alien Covenant (2017).mkv

 

matt@mattserver:~$ lsblk -o name,mountpoint

NAME   MOUNTPOINT

sdf    

└─sdf1

sdd    

├─sdd2 /media/matt/data1

└─sdd1

sdb    

└─sdb1

sdg    

└─sdg1

sde    

├─sde2

└─sde1

sdc    

├─sdc2

└─sdc1

sda    

├─sda2 /

├─sda3 [sWAP]

└─sda1 /boot/efi

sdh    

└─sdh1

 

matt@mattserver:~$ cat /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a

# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices

# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).

#

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation

UUID=f60286d4-aaf9-4a07-b799-17711e37fca8 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation

UUID=91C5-2C28  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1

# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation

UUID=dc02ca67-d6f4-432c-9b8d-7d96a0689201 none            swap    sw              0       0

matt@mattserver:~$

 

 

 

That's the output now? Nothing's changed, did those command not complete successfully?

 

Can you show me via teamviewer what your doing?

[splitcold 0]

Sure if i can figure out how to install it

[dcrdev 251]

Just click this

https://download.teamviewer.com/download/linux/teamviewer_amd64.deb

 

Should download, double click the deb file, will open it in Gnome Software, click install.

Edited January 4, 2018 by dcrdev

[dcrdev 251]

FYi - I solved this.

[chudak 23]

FYi - I solved this.

 

I have similar issue, see in logs:

 

2018-07-28 08:23:00.966 Error LibraryMonitor: Error in Directory watcher for: /media/seagatecentral/Public/Videos

    *** Error Report ***

    Version: 3.5.1.0

    Command line: /opt/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /var/lib/emby -ffmpeg /opt/emby-server/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /opt/emby-server/bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 -updatepackage emby-server-deb_{version}_amd64.deb

    Operating system: Unix 4.15.0.29

    64-Bit OS: True

    64-Bit Process: True

    User Interactive: True

    Processor count: 4

    Program data path: /var/lib/emby

    Application directory: /opt/emby-server/system

    System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/media/seagatecentral/Public/Videos/Test_Video.DD5.1.H265-d3g' is denied. ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

       --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

    System.UnauthorizedAccessException

    No Stack Trace Available

    InnerException: System.IO.IOException

    System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

 

Problem: on new dir/movie addition emby server scan does not automatically adds it, but on manual scan it works.

 

Wonder if you can take a look at my info https://pastebin.com/FWQkGrnK

 

Thx in advance

 

[dcrdev 251]

I have similar issue, see in logs:

 

2018-07-28 08:23:00.966 Error LibraryMonitor: Error in Directory watcher for: /media/seagatecentral/Public/Videos

    *** Error Report ***

    Version: 3.5.1.0

    Command line: /opt/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /var/lib/emby -ffmpeg /opt/emby-server/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /opt/emby-server/bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 -updatepackage emby-server-deb_{version}_amd64.deb

    Operating system: Unix 4.15.0.29

    64-Bit OS: True

    64-Bit Process: True

    User Interactive: True

    Processor count: 4

    Program data path: /var/lib/emby

    Application directory: /opt/emby-server/system

    System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/media/seagatecentral/Public/Videos/Test_Video.DD5.1.H265-d3g' is denied. ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

       --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

    System.UnauthorizedAccessException

    No Stack Trace Available

    InnerException: System.IO.IOException

    System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

 

Problem: on new dir/movie addition emby server scan does not automatically adds it, but on manual scan it works.

 

Wonder if you can take a look at my info https://pastebin.com/FWQkGrnK

 

Thx in advance

 

 

 

On the face of it there doesn't look like there's anything wrong with your permissions - aside from marking all files as executable (which you should never ever do) .

 

That particular log snippet relates to the file watcher - so I'm guessing that's the bit that's not working for you? That won't work as netcore uses inotify to watch for filesystem changes and inotify does not support cifs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8124617/getting-file-create-notifications-for-cifs-mount-in-linux

[chudak 23]

On the face of it there doesn't look like there's anything wrong with your permissions - aside from marking all files as executable (which you should never ever do) .

 

That particular log snippet relates to the file watcher - so I'm guessing that's the bit that's not working for you? That won't work as netcore uses inotify to watch for filesystem changes and inotify does not support cifs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8124617/getting-file-create-notifications-for-cifs-mount-in-linux

 

Thanks for your answer.

What would you suggest to fix it?

[dcrdev 251]

Thanks for your answer.

What would you suggest to fix it?

 

There isn't a way to 'fix' it - you'd have to be running local storage.