Netfool 18 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 I wanted to compare Shield performance between a Library stored on a network drive and a local drive. I've put a 500GB SSD USB drive in the second slot. It shows as "Emby3" in the Storage list in the Shield Menu with 500GB available. However it does not appear in the list of devices when I press the FOLDER+ button in the Library setup dialog. What am I doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Hi. What happens if you just type it in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netfool 18 Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 (edited) On 12/24/2020 at 7:36 AM, ebr said: Hi. What happens if you just type it in? The problem is knowing what to type in. After a round of plugging, unplugging, and re-plugging it appears that the name of the drive is ignored. The path /storage/5FDB-E609 came and went as the drive was added and removed so that must be the path. I opened an SMB connection to it and created a DVR2 directory on it. However Emby claims it doesn't have write access to that directory, and the shield doesn't let me set permissions through the SMB connection (from a Mac). The Shield also doesn't appear to accept ssh connections so I'm still stuck for a solution. If I can find something on the net explaining how to set permissions, I'll report it back here. But for now NO JOY! Edited December 26, 2020 by Netfool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37050 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 You could try browsing to it using the google files app to see what the full path is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netfool 18 Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 21 hours ago, Luke said: You could try browsing to it using the google files app to see what the full path is. I found it, it's /storage/5FDB-E609. But I can't figure out how to give Emby write permission on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37050 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Is write access needed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netfool 18 Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 16 hours ago, Luke said: Is write access needed? Apparently..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37050 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 What screen is that from? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netfool 18 Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 On 1/2/2021 at 5:07 PM, Luke said: What screen is that from? Dashboard > LiveTV > DVR > Default Recording Path > Select Path Popup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Carlo 4330 Posted January 9, 2021 Solution Share Posted January 9, 2021 I don't know if this is an old article or not but might be worth a read: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4437/~/how-to-write-to-usb-shared-storage-on-shield 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37050 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 @Netfool has this helped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netfool 18 Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 4 hours ago, Luke said: @Netfool has this helped? That did it!! It's an odd implementation though. I can create directory trees as many levels deep as I like outside NVIDIA_SHIELD on that drive, but can't write to the directories I've created. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Thanks for the feedback @Netfool. I've added this info to our Server Installation KB article for Shield TV as Step 8 (optional). https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001849875-server-installation-on-shield-tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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