Symbolic links for personal photo library

[Tandhruil 26]

(Sorry for my english, I'm french)

Actually I've got a personal photos library on my windows computer where I store photos from family smartphones and camera.

It's strctured like :

MyPhotos\Holidays

MyPhotos\Friends

MyPhotos\Sunset

MyPhotos\...

Using Synology Drive Client these directories are store in my NAS in a directory  like //home/.../Backup/My PC/MyPhotos/Holidays/ (etc) associate with the user Backup

I've got a Library of Personnal Photos in my emby server. Actually, I copy the photos from my PC to the NAS Emby directory. //home1/EmbyLibrary/MyPhotos/

Is it possible to create a symbolic link beetween my backup directory and the emby directory to let Emby use this link for the Library ?

How do I have to manage the rights between emby and backup user ?

Will It be still available after a reboot ?

I'm not really fluent with linux

[Eigeplackter 90]

I'm actually using Synology Photos in addtion to your setup, so my folder is a sub of /photos.

You are not saying if your Emby server is running on that synology, but if though,

you can easily add the path as a library and give the emby system user on the synology read-permissions,

or read-write if you want to.

 

[Tandhruil 26]

18 hours ago, Eigeplackter said:

I'm actually using Synology Photos in addtion to your setup, so my folder is a sub of /photos.

You are not saying if your Emby server is running on that synology, but if though,

you can easily add the path as a library and give the emby system user on the synology read-permissions,

or read-write if you want to.

 

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

You're right, the Emby server Is on the NAS. I don't use Synology Photo but I don't want to le the user Emby acces to all my backup folders.

With symbolic link, I thought I could allow user Emby to access in read-only only to my photos directory.

 

[Eigeplackter 90]

Yes you can do do this with permissions on the synology nas.

[Tandhruil 26]

OK, so,

I gave user Emby rights to read to the directory /volume1/homes/Backup/.../'My Photos' with Files Station

I connected with ssh on the NAS

ln -sr /volume1/homes/Backup/.../'My Photos' /volume1/MyEmby

Add the path /volume1/MyEmby/'My Photos' in a new library "Home Video and Photos"

And It works well even after a reboot.

 

Thanks anyway

Edited January 13, 2025 by Tandhruil