metropical 33 Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 is it possible to add a shared networked drive, on another Mac running Mavericks, on my LAN ? If so is there a thread on that?
Carlo 4552 Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 Sure, see if this might help. https://www.dummies.com/computers/macs/mac-operating-systems/how-to-set-up-file-share-in-os-x-mavericks/
metropical 33 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Posted July 17, 2020 ah, the picture I posted shows that the drives are already shared. My question is how to add them as Emby librarys.
Carlo 4552 Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 As long as you can access them as the user running Emby Server then you should be able to add mapped drives the same way essentially as local drives. You would then just follow this knowledge base article https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159319-library-setup
metropical 33 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Posted July 17, 2020 not sure I understand. The path in the snap above. That is the LAN IP of my MacPro with 4 internal drives that have media in various folders.
Carlo 4552 Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 1 hour ago, metropical said: ah, the picture I posted shows that the drives are already shared. My question is how to add them as Emby librarys. 9 minutes ago, metropical said: what am I doing wrong then? It looks like you've done it. Is there another part to the question?
metropical 33 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Posted July 17, 2020 weird. it wasn't showing up with media, just the "icon" of the folder. Then all of a sudden - poof! I guess the scan was taking longer? In any case, see if I get as lucky with the others. I have way too much media ..... Thanks,
Carlo 4552 Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 With over 100K videos on my system I'd say you can never have enough. LOL
metropical 33 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Posted July 17, 2020 yeow.....! There aren't 100k days in ones life time. Prepared for the afterlife.
Luke 40079 Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 2 hours ago, metropical said: My question is how to add them as Emby librarys. Simply enter the path to the shared folder in the directory chooser popup.
metropical 33 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Posted July 17, 2020 yes. got it. But may I suggest adding clearer info for Mac users, on this page.https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159319-library-setup. Once I added the path, the scan took longer than I expected so I thought the path was wrong or not working. Perhaps an example path like this. /Network/Volume/Name/Users/name/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Movies Shared Network Folder path \\192.168.#.###
Carlo 4552 Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 That article has a link to this one which is about Optional Network Paths https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159320
metropical 33 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Posted July 17, 2020 yes, saw and read that. Just sayin, a little additional info wouldn't be bad.
Luke 40079 Posted July 19, 2020 Posted July 19, 2020 The optional network path actually does not impact the library scan. In fact it's not used by the server itself, only by emby client apps.
metropical 33 Posted October 27, 2023 Author Posted October 27, 2023 update. In order to keep the ability to to update the emby server app, I've changed from a cMP3,1 to a 2018 mini The drives must be shared from the LAN'd other computer that they are actually mounted in. As compared to neked drives themselves on the LAN. Then their path is easily found with: /Volumes/YourDriveNameHere/Music 1
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