rickdEMBY 0 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 I have attempted to use a mapped cifs drive path to my local NAS and it fails since emby runs under the emby account not the logged on user account. Emby use is an account only used for emby service to run. How could I use my cifs share as a remote path for EMBY in this situation?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37288 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Hi, you will just have to make sure that it has the necessary permissions to that folder. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickdEMBY 0 Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 The option I have to to add a user emby with a mandatory password on the NAS of which the emby user on the linux install does not have a password that I know of ... or is there a way to set the user emby password on the linux side and have no affect on the Emby server startup etc ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 The option I have to to add a user emby with a mandatory password on the NAS of which the emby user on the linux install does not have a password that I know of ... or is there a way to set the user emby password on the linux side and have no affect on the Emby server startup etc ... put the emby user in a group that has r/w access to the mount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickdEMBY 0 Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 put the emby user in a group that has r/w access to the mount. unfortunately the options to make a cifs mount only allow user options for r/w ... unless I am missing something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 unfortunately the options to make a cifs mount only allow user options for r/w ... unless I am missing something https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/mount-cifs-network-drive-write-permissions-and-chown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickdEMBY 0 Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 (edited) https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/mount-cifs-network-drive-write-permissions-and-chown I added emby user to the group the user is in that is used to mount the drive and still not working... is there a way to see the errors? or if user emby had a known password it would use when testing/writing it would be easier to build the connection Edited October 24, 2018 by rickdEMBY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 I added emby user to the group the user is in that is used to mount the drive and still not working... is there a way to see the errors? or if user emby had a known password it would use when testing/writing it would be easier to build the connectionWhy are you using cifs is my first question. What's syslog say when you mount the drive? Did you create a new folder that emby has rw access to and mount the cifs share there? Cifs is pretty old school so we're going to have to limp along with this one, unfortunately. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickdEMBY 0 Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 Why are you using cifs is my first question. What's syslog say when you mount the drive? Did you create a new folder that emby has rw access to and mount the cifs share there? Cifs is pretty old school so we're going to have to limp along with this one, unfortunately. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk My NAS can do NFS is that's a better option for this application? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 My NAS can do NFS is that's a better option for this application? its almost always better when living in linux land. cifs is old and primarily used when you have a networked windows disk you want to mount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickdEMBY 0 Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 its almost always better when living in linux land. cifs is old and primarily used when you have a networked windows disk you want to mount. The more I read on NFS the more security issues arise. I do have multiple OS's using my NAS and I have attempted to enable an NFS share ... the basic NFS auth methods are resulting me me trying to change UID GID of users on the linux box where emby runs, not optimal and to say CIFS is old ? NFS is as well. Seems the idea of allowing the emby server to use a networked mounted temp location is a bit stretch at this point... Emby can watch mounted drives for changes .... I was hoping the code was there to extend the temp transcode as well but either not possible or not as mature as needed to flexibly use what's already mounted... I'll keep my eyes open for a better solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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