Peter Piper 0 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Hey, I have tried to setup emby to 'read' my external hdd with directories and sub-directories. Below is my 'ls -l' readout for the root external hdd: drwxr-xr-x 64 dave dave 4096 Jan 11 15:22 My_Films drwxrwxrwx 54 dave dave 4096 Jan 11 14:30 My_TV drwxrwxrwx 3 dave dave 4096 Nov 20 11:31 Webms Any help would be great as I would like to see this working. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37249 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Hi, where exactly are you having a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Piper 0 Posted January 11, 2019 Author Share Posted January 11, 2019 (edited) Hi, on the "Add media libraries" setup page. For some reason emby cannot find the hdd. Addition: I am using Arch Linux 64 bit. Edited January 11, 2019 by Peter Piper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfatula 185 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 (edited) But you have to mount the "root" eternal HD into some directory, such as /mnt or whatever. What are the permissions for that directory, and any other parent directory? What is the full path to the directory you showed above? Edited January 12, 2019 by sfatula Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Piper 0 Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 But you have to mount the "root" eternal HD into some directory, such as /mnt or whatever. What are the permissions for that directory, and any other parent directory? What is the full path to the directory you showed above? Hi, the mount point and full path is: /run/media/dave/Backup Permissions are: [dave@antergos Backup]$ ls -l total 24 drwxrwxrwx 2 dave autologin 4096 Jul 5 2018 APKs drwxrwxrwx 5 dave autologin 4096 Dec 12 18:39 'Arch Linux' -rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave 102 Dec 6 18:48 bitwarden -rwxrwxrwx 1 dave autologin 44 Jul 9 2018 maltego drwxrwxrwx 6 dave dave 4096 Jan 11 17:34 My_Media drwxrwxrwx 3 dave autologin 4096 Dec 13 13:46 RAR [dave@antergos Backup]$ Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfatula 185 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 And what path is My_TV in? Underneath My_Media? When adding the new media library, under folder, you are putting what exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Piper 0 Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 And what path is My_TV in? Underneath My_Media? Yes and My_Films is also. Full path to My_Videos on external HDD: /run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos And the two subsequent folders I would like to add to emby are: /run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos/My_Films /run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos/My_TV When adding the new media library, under folder, you are putting what exactly? This: /run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos/My_Films /run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos/My_TV But both are not picked up by emby. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfatula 185 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 To see where it's failing, in the "folder" field under add media library, simply put a / and hit the search icon to the right. Now, try and navigate folder level by level to where you want. Where does it stop, or does it work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Piper 0 Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 (edited) Okay, so it fails at the following: /run/media/dave Edited January 12, 2019 by Peter Piper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfatula 185 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Okay, so it fails at the following: /run/media/dave Ok, so, in a terminal window, cd to /run/media and post ls -l results. Assuming you can't get anything under dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Piper 0 Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 Okay here it is: [dave@antergos media]$ ls -l total 0 drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 60 Jan 12 06:31 dave drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 60 Jan 12 05:00 root [dave@antergos media]$ And under "/run/media/dave": [dave@antergos dave]$ ls -l total 4 drwxrwxrwx 7 dave dave 4096 Jan 11 17:34 Backup [dave@antergos dave]$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfatula 185 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 So, the emby user has no permissions to get past dave since it's owned by root, and the group is root. You need to chmod 775 dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Piper 0 Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 Okay, I got this problem sorted. I simply had to change the mount point using the "Disks" program in the main menu (See pics). Everything works great now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37249 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Thanks for the feedback ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfatula 185 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Yep, that works too, as would changing perms if you did want to keep it where it was. Glad you got it working! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Piper 0 Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 @@Luke @@sfatula No problem. I must say the emby interface looks amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37249 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Thank for the feedback ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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