Unable to authenticate/find share on another machine

[aerospyke 4]

Hi all, I have a music share on another machine to my emby host, not sure when it broke so no ideas there. Currently, the username/password fields in the library settings are empty. I get an auth failed message. When putting in the uesrname/password (domain formats of full UPN, the downlevel of shortdomain\username, even tried username\shortdomain) I just get the directory cannot be find. It 100% can be found, can be connected to with the creds i'm trying to put in.

 

This is in a domain, and it's a DFS share. I don't know if that makes a difference for support, SMB versions (SMBv1 is disabled, v2/3 is enabled). If i put the wrong creds in, i get auth failed, so i at least know the authentication works. 

[aerospyke 4]

Oh, I'm currently running emby server in a docker container. that's important.

[Luke 42078]

Hi, maybe you're better off mounting it in your docker compose as a local path, and then you can add the local path into emby server. I would give that a try.

[aerospyke 4]

That did indeed help. Added it as a local path and emby now can access all the content. So now it works, i'd like to figure out why it wasn't working, so streaming from storage doesn't have to go through the emby server. Cheers.

[Luke 42078]

It's really hard to say. Wrong username/password is probably the most likely. 

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so streaming from storage doesn't have to go through the emby server

If we're talking about SMB then it won't matter which of these two methods you use.

[aerospyke 4]

10 hours ago, Luke said:

It's really hard to say. Wrong username/password is probably the most likely. 

If we're talking about SMB then it won't matter which of these two methods you use.

I'm only going by this message. Can you explain what it means if it doesn't mean that the data stream doesn't need to flow through the server app? If it doesn't mean that then it's all good and I don't mind it not going through the shared path then. Happy to be schooled, as always!

 

[Luke 42078]

OK, what Emby app are you playing with? Most don't actually make use of that function....however even if you need it, you could still accomplish it via the combination of using the local path + mapping it using the shared network folder path.

[aerospyke 4]

I have a mix of android/TV apps across 3 tv's, and 4 android mobile devices around the house that I use to stream music to. All access is internal, I don't let emby outside of the home network. Is this a use case that may use that mapping?

[Luke 42078]

18 hours ago, aerospyke said:

I have a mix of android/TV apps across 3 tv's, and 4 android mobile devices around the house that I use to stream music to. All access is internal, I don't let emby outside of the home network. Is this a use case that may use that mapping?

No, in your case you don't need to bother with it.

[aerospyke 4]

9 hours ago, Luke said:

No, in your case you don't need to bother with it.

Oh that's good to know, so I don't need to even try and figure it out, it wouldn't even function that way anyway. Thanks Luke!