Shared folder (network drive) not recognised

[aiffly 0]

Hi,

I am having an issue to include shared folders in my library:

- the network drive was mounted using the following /etc/fstab line:

//192.168.1.254/disque_reseau/ /home/pi/disque_reseau cifs rw,iocharset=utf8,uid=emby,gid=emby,credentials=/home/pi/.freeboxcredentials

- the drive seems correctly mounted:

drwxr-xr-x 2 emby emby    0 Apr 20 09:16 disque_reseau

- and the media library (disque_reseau/Vidéos) appears as:

drwxr-xr-x 2 emby emby         0 Jan 29 15:12 Vidéos

But when defining the library in Emby, I have been unable to locate my folder. I have tried different solutions:

- browse /home/pi then define folder as disque_reseau/Vidéos (no folder disque_reseau was visible in Emby browser)

- define a network drive \\192.168.1.254\disque_reseau\ and the folder Vidéos

But I always get the message "The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again".

What do I miss?

Thank you.

[Luke 42077]

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- browse /home/pi then define folder as disque_reseau/Vidéos (no folder disque_reseau was visible in Emby browser)

Hi, this would be the preferred way. What happened with this?

[aiffly 0]

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this would be the preferred way. What happened with this?

I can browse up to the folder /home/pi but then disque_reseau does not appear in Emby browser (yet it is visible in the linux terminal). And if I define the folder as disque_reseau/Vidéos, I get the message "The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again"

[aiffly 0]

Surprisingly, today /home is no more visible in Emby folder (but still visible from Linux)... Many different folders appear (that were not present before): 

 

Also if I select one of the server available in the "Network" list, it appears as smb://...

Does it mean that I should rather define the shared folder through smb.conf (rather than fstab)?

 

[aiffly 0]

I was finally able to define a library by defining the following folder:

smb://192.168.1.254/disque_reseau/Vidéos

So clearly I do not use the mounted network drive: is it the way it should work?

 

[Luke 42077]

Either is fine but if you can get the mounted drive to work that would likely perform better