JMS70 1 Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 (edited) Good day Embies! I recently decided to move to Emby, was using Windows media server prior, but I like the interfaces better in Emby...similar to Kodi but I wanted to try Emby. So far I like it. My system runs an i5 with 8GB memory. I decided to move over to Linux Mint, since my Windows 7 system was soon going out of support, and well, honestly I'm not a big Microsoft fan, even being an MCSE\A. I was excited to find an OS with far less overhead. Though I have worked in Linux over the years, I am no where near fluent in it, though I have taken some Red Hat Linux and AIX admin courses for work over the years. Unfortunately my day to day work admin activity is very limited so I have forgotten much more than I remember from training. Is Linux Mint a good choice for my server? Are there better Linux options to look at? I am finding it very difficult to configure my server to see drives and at one point my TV tuner vanished from the configuration, though I restored my system to an earlier clone image with timeshift and it found the tuner again. I guess I'm just looking for advice from experienced Mint users for best practices with Mint. I could move to another Linux distro but I would think things would be similar? The only way I think I would change is if a disrto had even less overhead or is better with Emby. Edited May 31, 2019 by JMS70 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36992 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Hi there @@JMS70, I don't think the distro will matter. What issues exactly are you having? thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csimon 4 Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Hello - I'm in a similar position to you really, moving from Windows due to 7 being end of life (and really hating Microsoft) and also moving from Plex because I'm disillusioned with the direction they're going. I'm familiar with Linux/Unix in a shell environment as it's what I'm used to in work for the last 20 years, but not so familiar with Linux from a system admin point of view. Setting up "mapped drives" for example is a different concept from Windows and I'm still learning what to do for the best. It's certainly a learning curve. I've settled on Mint for both my main PC and the PC I'll be using as a media server. I'm sure if you post specific Linux/Emby related things here then someone will be able to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS70 1 Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 My main issue currently is getting emby to see my drives. I have a 3TB internal drive formatted to ext4 and an external 5TB drive (ntfs) that I have all movies, music, pictures etc. that I would like emby to read and write to. I have changed the permissions to the drives and have added the emby system user to the adm group but when I go through the mint GUI to attempt to modify any permissions on the drives or folders anything I try to change it to revers back to my user account. When I attempt to map to the drives, when I have emby scan for files it doesn't find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36992 Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Ah yes then it must be permissions related. @@mastrmind11 have you tried this with Linux mint before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution mastrmind11 717 Posted June 3, 2019 Solution Share Posted June 3, 2019 My main issue currently is getting emby to see my drives. I have a 3TB internal drive formatted to ext4 and an external 5TB drive (ntfs) that I have all movies, music, pictures etc. that I would like emby to read and write to. I have changed the permissions to the drives and have added the emby system user to the adm group but when I go through the mint GUI to attempt to modify any permissions on the drives or folders anything I try to change it to revers back to my user account. When I attempt to map to the drives, when I have emby scan for files it doesn't find anything. first you need to make sure your kernel has ntfs support and that you're mounting it correctly. https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-partition-with-ntfs-file-system-and-read-write-access drop out of the gui and use the command line for this stuff. linux gui's are hit or miss with lower level administration. once you're mounted properly, make sure you can see the files on the mount. assuming you can, what is the output of ls -l at the root of your media? since it's ntfs I'd imagine you share this with a windows machine? if so you need to be careful setting permissions since they have to be the same across machines. if not, just add emby to whatever group has r/w on the drive via the command line, then su to the emby user and verify that you can see all your media. once that's done, emby will scan the libraries fine. post back if you need more help. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS70 1 Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 first you need to make sure your kernel has ntfs support and that you're mounting it correctly. https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-partition-with-ntfs-file-system-and-read-write-access drop out of the gui and use the command line for this stuff. linux gui's are hit or miss with lower level administration. once you're mounted properly, make sure you can see the files on the mount. assuming you can, what is the output of ls -l at the root of your media? since it's ntfs I'd imagine you share this with a windows machine? if so you need to be careful setting permissions since they have to be the same across machines. if not, just add emby to whatever group has r/w on the drive via the command line, then su to the emby user and verify that you can see all your media. once that's done, emby will scan the libraries fine. post back if you need more help. Thanks Mastermind! I actually went through and changed the permissions on the command line. I was just curious why the GUI was not keeping anything I attempted through it..I agree though, all this is best done through command line in my opinion as well. I just have to refresh my brain a lot on the commands since it was about 2 years ago when I took RHEL 7 admin training. I have not seen the link you sent so I am looking at it now...Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS70 1 Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 first you need to make sure your kernel has ntfs support and that you're mounting it correctly. https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-partition-with-ntfs-file-system-and-read-write-access drop out of the gui and use the command line for this stuff. linux gui's are hit or miss with lower level administration. once you're mounted properly, make sure you can see the files on the mount. assuming you can, what is the output of ls -l at the root of your media? since it's ntfs I'd imagine you share this with a windows machine? if so you need to be careful setting permissions since they have to be the same across machines. if not, just add emby to whatever group has r/w on the drive via the command line, then su to the emby user and verify that you can see all your media. once that's done, emby will scan the libraries fine. post back if you need more help. So apparently I need to do some mounting as you suggested in one of your posts...thank you! I am now up and running! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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