Ubuntu Computer Emby Setup

[DennisFinely 0]

Hello hello hope everyone is great. I need some help please and thanks, I have recently installed the latest Ubuntu desktop on my computer after Windows 10 gave up helping people with updates and Windows 11 would not install from my pc being not special enough for them. I so far managed to install Ubuntu updates and CasaOS and Nordvpn Emby server with not so so much trouble I have Emby installed with CasaOS it looks good but when I plugged in my 4 hard drives they popped up in CasaOS and on the desktop but when I try to open them I get an error failed to launch Emby, all my hard drives are named Emby, Emby1, Emby1, Emby3, and Emby4. But I don't have permission it says and I can't add them to Emby library where are they, I'm lost.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, can you please show a screenshot of the error? Thanks.

[DennisFinely 0]

I followed some videos on Youtube for the past few days to learn this the first thing I did was installed Adguard then Brave browser so now I can watch Youtube with absolutely no ads which is in itself worth installing Ubuntu. Here is a picture of my desktop running Ubuntu I will attach a picture.

 

[DennisFinely 0]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, can you please show a screenshot of the error? Thanks.

Sure I can thanks for being so fast, here are a couple of pictures.

 

[DennisFinely 0]

Hi Luke, can you just login my computer and fix this for me please ? I'm sure there is some remote app we can use ? thanks.

[DennisFinely 0]

[DennisFinely 0]

Maybe if I join everything together and reboot it will work, I will try and see what happens.

[DennisFinely 0]

No it never worked, I'm going to go see what other things I can do with Ubuntu and take a break from Emby. Sometimes when you take a break from things it helps figure stuff out, thanks. Before I go I did want to know if Emby can now play my ISO Backups I also would like to continue making ISO backups on linux but have no idea how yet. I have a 10TB drive not plugged in that has all my ISO movie backups on but I never was able to watch them on my monthly Emby account. If it does now work I never did figure it out.

[tollgate 8]

Looks to me the next thing you need to do is go to your emby server dashboard and add libraries. AFAIK emby does not support ISO files though.

[DennisFinely 0]

Nah it won't work on Ubuntu I need to mount my drives I have no idea how. 

[DennisFinely 0]

I plugged in my hard drive with my backup ISO's that won't even let me open it, something with linux is stopping it. Think this is why people don't use linux you need to have knowledge on using the terminal. I can't figure it out I tried for days no luck. Luke don't respond he don't know how to do it. I will just wait until someone comes along with the know how.

[DennisFinely 0]

Actually this is not worth the headache, I don't need to wait for someone to help this is stupid, spent days on this I'm done. I cancelled my Emby I will just call and order cable. Thanks guys I'm out.

[TMCsw 247]

14 hours ago, DennisFinely said:

Actually this is not worth the headache,

If you change your mind, look at this: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-mount-usb-drive/ -- just ignore the stuff that is specific to the RPi, it's the same for Ubuntu.

Also, ISO's are not fully supported for playback in Emby.

[Luke 42077]

14 hours ago, DennisFinely said:

Actually this is not worth the headache, I don't need to wait for someone to help this is stupid, spent days on this I'm done. I cancelled my Emby I will just call and order cable. Thanks guys I'm out.

HI @DennisFinelycan you please give it another try?

[MediaEmby1968 47]

In Linux you can mount drives via terminal or through the graphical application gnome disk utility (also known as disks)

[marriedman 85]

On 10/26/2025 at 3:37 AM, DennisFinely said:

Think this is why people don't use linux you need to have knowledge on using the terminal. I can't figure it out I tried for days no luck.

Man, that is a tired excuse. That's like me saying you need a wallet to use Windows/Mac. 

Dude, I get it; you're frustrated because you came from an OS that you felt comfortable and probably confident using. I am guessing that English is not your native language, so I might misunderstand some of what you explained. It sounds as though you set up a NAS running CasaOS (which incidentally has been abandoned for ZimaOS) I assume that you have set up network file sharing, E.G. SMB (Samba) or maybe NFS (Network File System) on this server. Then on your desktop/laptop you installed Ubuntu and are trying to access your shares. 

This is where it gets confusing. If you are just wanting to stream your media to clients, you do not need to mount those network shares. Maybe you haven't set up your Library in Emby yet and that is what you are wanting to do. If so, you should go to the IP address of your server (E.G. 192.168.X.X:8096) and follow the setup.

If you are asking about how to mount network shares, that honestly has nothing to do with Emby. That would be a question for the Ubuntu forums. It's simple enough and there are many ways to accomplish it. Me personally, I modify my FSTAB to mount them at boot. Some people prefer to helper clients, and others just want shortcuts on the desktop that point to the share. In any of these examples, you need to provide the client with the credentials to access the share. The first time you click on the unmounted drive, it should prompt you for credentials.

Now that I think about it, since you came from windows, are your shares in NTFS? I don't know if a Linux server behaves well when using that file system.  Unfortunately you cannot change that to ext4 or any other OS friendly file system without losing everything on the drives. 

 

On 10/26/2025 at 3:37 AM, DennisFinely said:

Luke don't respond he don't know how to do it.

Seriously?  In my timezone, your original post was made at midnight and you gave up at 3:30 in the morning. You are upset that your problem hasn't been solved in 3 hours? That is a bit unrealistic. Maybe Luke was helping the hundreds of other active forum users? Maybe he was asleep? You need to temper your expectations.