PhillyIdol 1 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Okay, So I'm not 'new' to Linux (I've used Ubuntu), but I am new to using Linux as a media server, and I am new to Mint. Having said that, even tho it all seems pretty familiar/straight forward, I am running into issues with adding files to the server. Just to be clear, I just installed Mint (as in today) on a server (so latest Cinnamon 19 ver), and then installed Emby (so again, latest ver). Reason is my old media box is dying (was just a old Windows box that I had with only 20-30 movies), and I'm transferring the files over to my new box, and wanted to have a sleeker media server, so went with Mint+Emby. Mint installed fine, Emby installed fine, added drive location easily enuf (/home/embysvr/movies), transferred some movies over to test with a USB... but nothing shows up in the dashboard (??). Ran scan library thru dashboard, but no go. I'm guessing there's either a break in my install, or it's a perms issue with files from a Win box to a Linux box. I ran the ls -l cmd against the share and the transferred files show as having these perms: drwx------- 2 embysvr embysvr 4096 Mar 21 13:17 '<movie filename>' I'm thinking it may be important to note, that I tried a DL of a movie from the server directly to that folder - and it scanned/worked - until I changed the name of the file/folder to match my other ones (I use 'movie title (year)' format - the initial DL that worked had a long name.year.1080p.x.264 name)... AND with the DL'd one, the perms showed as this: drwxrwxr-x 2 embysvr embysvr 4096 Mar 21 14:34 '<movie filename>' I have been looking thru the web/forums for permissions, as well as changing folder/file names causing issues (which I really don't understand why this would be an issue), so I'm still trying things, but thought I'd post here JIC there was a guru who had a quick 'you forgot to do this' answer. Apologies in advance if I just missed a simple step/forum - I'll keep looking. Cheers and thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyIdol 1 Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Update: I've been going thru some posts on how to grant perms, and I see a few that show strings such as... sudo chmod g+rwx <movies folder path> ...and... sudo chown -R emby.MEDIA <movies folder path>..., so I know the issue is I'm NOT 100% on emby perms, so if I'm reading it right, emby creates a user and/or an 'emby.MEDIA' user/setting on install/setup (at setup I created an 'embyadmin' user), and that's what I need to grant perms to my 'movies' folder, or add the 'emby' (embyadmin) user to the group that owns the folder, and hopefully I'm on the right track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37049 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Hi, yes that is correct about the emby user. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyIdol 1 Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Sorry - forgot to post another update... I went ahead with the cmd's above (found that for the 2nd cmd I had to use 'emby'), restarted the server, reran the scan - and voila. It finally scanned the folder, my movies showed up, and they play perfectly. Now I admit I foolishly should have tried one cmd and tested to see which one worked (and/or if both were needed), so as I just bought a new 2nd HDD so that I can separate the OS from my collection, I'll be re-installing from scratch anyway, so I'll be sure to remind myself to do that and see what happens ;-) Thanks for the conf and the assist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37049 Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Thanks for the feedback. Please let us know how you get on with the new drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyIdol 1 Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 Okay, So built a Mint server, tried transferring some movies over to it from my old box, but it wouldn't let me until I ran a 'sudo chown -R <myuseracct> <movies folder path>' cmd, and I was good to go, but then once I transferred them, I got the dreaded 'no compatible streams' playback error, so then I fig'd I needed to run the 'sudo chmod g+rwx <movies folder path>', so did - but no go still. Then I thought about the initial issue with the 'emby' acct needing access, so re-ran the 'sudo chown -R' cmd, but this time with the 'emby' user and that fixed the scan issue - but then... I realized I would have to rerun the same cmd with my acct when I transferred movies, then again with the 'emby' acct to play them. That's when I remember in a few of the posts mentioning 'groups', so... I created a 'embyadmins' group, added both my acct and the 'emby' acct to it, ran the 'chgrp' with the group, then the 'chmod -R' with the '2775' entry I also remembered, and voila - I can successfully transfer, scan, and play my movies with no issues. Basically, from what I found, you don't need the 'sudo chmod g+rwx' cmd, just the 'chown' with a group. Cheers and hope this helps someone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37049 Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Thanks for the info ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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