Help: Emby on Unraid with UNC path names to local libraries

[rbjtech 5284]

9 minutes ago, MrMackey said:

I have just roughly followed the topic.
I also use unraid and for me it looks like this:

So that's a direct mount (/mnt) - the OP wants to use UNC for the primary path as well.

 

[MrMackey 35]

@rbjtechAhh ok got it. I have never tried that before.

[kkhan 16]

The following works

The following also works

However, to get true portability, I want to use the following ...

... but this does not resolve

I can ping Flower from within the emby container and from external devices but emby itself refuses to resolve the Flower hostname.

 

[Luke 42077]

56 minutes ago, MrMackey said:

I have just roughly followed the topic.
I also use unraid and for me it looks like this:

Yes this is an example of what I would suggest doing.

[kkhan 16]

@luke. Your recommendation is sound but I need to keep my emby main server (on UNRAID) and my emby backup server (on Windows Server) in sync and I cannot do that effectively unless I use UNC pathnames because then emby remains portable and the mirroring of the backup to the main can be automated.  Since 2018 I have been using this architecture very effectively (I sync on a daily basis both the emby install and media libraries from the main server to the backup) so that if the main server needs to go offline (for maintenance or whatever), I can switch at moments notice to the backup server and there is virtually no interruption in service.  I have become unstuck now as for the first time, my main emby server is not a windows machine

Portability has also helped in migrating between the 3 hardware platform upgrades since 2017; it becomes trivial because it is simply a matter of copying the entire emby appdata folder without any changes from one machine to the next.

 

[kkhan 16]

Have discovered a workaround to the issue.  When adding a library, in the folder path dialogue box:

• Typing \\localservername\music (for example) does not resolve servername (though as stated above \\localhost\music does)
• However, by first scrolling to the bottom of the available folders/shares and selecting Network, brings up smb://localservername.
• Selecting this does resolves to the local host!
• However, selecting media shares this way adds the path smb://localservername/music which is, I believe, not portable between linux and windows.
• But manually entering \\localserver\music now works correctly and is resolved.

 

[rbjtech 5284]

1 hour ago, kkhan said:

Have discovered a workaround to the issue.  When adding a library, in the folder path dialogue box:

• Typing \\localservername\music (for example) does not resolve servername (though as stated above \\localhost\music does)
• However, by first scrolling to the bottom of the available folders/shares and selecting Network, brings up smb://localservername.
• Selecting this does resolves to the local host!
• However, selecting media shares this way adds the path smb://localservername/music which is, I believe, not portable between linux and windows.
• But manually entering \\localserver\music now works correctly and is resolved.

 

@Carlo- Maybe this could be added to the wiki ?

https://emby.media/support/articles/Optional-Network-Paths.html

[jiggity 35]

@kkhan

Have you tried setting custom network addresses for the docker containers in Unraid?

In the docker edit use the network type drop down go to custom br0
assign a custom IP to the docker that will fall within your LAN static range

if you need to assign a specific DNS then in extra parameters use  "--dns *.*.*.*" without the quotes and replace the  *.*.*.* with your actual required DNS

That should allow for a netbios connection to the docker without needing to use an IP/Name config

Good luck if you are still having issues

[zackken 1]

On 5/14/2023 at 12:07 PM, kkhan said:

The following works

The following also works

However, to get true portability, I want to use the following ...

... but this does not resolve

I can ping Flower decoration Dubai from within the emby container and from external devices but emby itself refuses to resolve the Flower hostname.

 

Nice!