Emby is not working for me

[Caliber 0]

Hello emby, I can't seem to get emby to work running linux mint. I heard good things about emby so thought I would try it out instead of watching my movies from my computer plugged into my tv to view my movies I could watch them from my android tv with the movie posters. I have emby installed but when I try adding my movies to my external hard drive it's nowhere to be found even though my hard drive 8tb shows on my desktop I'm confused. I have about 40 movie backups and thought this might be a good new way to watch my media if it works thanks.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, what exactly do you need by nowhere to be found?

[Caliber 0]

I can't add my movies into emby from my hard drive I can't see it to add my movies.

[sargenthp 35]

Make sure the emby group has access to read the files.

[Caliber 0]

Sorry but I'm not sure how I can do that I only started using linux a couple months ago, thanks for the suggestion if you can tell me how.

[Caliber 0]

Lol this is confusing maybe it's not for me.

[Caliber 0]

Funny I tried on a windows laptop it worked right away with my hard drive plugged in but I plan on installing linux on my laptop tomorrow I like linux way better. If anyone has the knowledge to get this working let me no thank you.

[Caliber 0]

Luke is there a linux operating system that you know how to use ? I could install a different one that you can understand if it works easy for you to help ? Let me know if you understand how to get emby running on linux or not. Thank you Luke. If you don't know how please let me know.

[Caliber 0]

I'm on distrowatch now, on windows distrowatch is blocked it says ERROR but on linux it works because microsoft blocks distrowatch website. I will download MXlinux next and install it to see if emby works with it.

[Caliber 0]

What if I install ubuntu server on one pc then login with another and plug my hard drive into the ubuntu server would that work with emby ?

[Caliber 0]

Or freebsd ?

[MediaEmby1968 47]

If you're not familiar with Linux, give it some time. Linux Mint is a good option. And MX Linux is also good, with the XFCE desktop environment, which uses fewer resources. What you need to do is create a folder to mount that 8TB hard drive. I also use an external drive. By default, I think it mounts to /media, but it's better to use /mnt. You can mount it graphically with the GNOME Disk Utility application. Once mounted, you grant it permissions and you'll be able to see the folders.

[Caliber 0]

I will try maybe freebsd 

Edited November 2, 2025 by Caliber

[Caliber 0]

3 minutes ago, MediaEmby1968 said:

If you're not familiar with Linux, give it some time. Linux Mint is a good option. And MX Linux is also good, with the XFCE desktop environment, which uses fewer resources. What you need to do is create a folder to mount that 8TB hard drive. I also use an external drive. By default, I think it mounts to /media, but it's better to use /mnt. You can mount it graphically with the GNOME Disk Utility application. Once mounted, you grant it permissions and you'll be able to see the folders.

Hey bro, GNOME Disk Utility application I will look for it thank you buddy. I will let you know how I make out.

[MediaEmby1968 47]

Check if it's already installed; it's called Disks and should appear in Utilities, I think.

[Caliber 0]

so mount the mb 210 fat the other one says unmount i plugged in a 26tb

 

[Caliber 0]

it shows 2 it shows the 210mb and the other beside it says 26tb exfat

[MediaEmby1968 47]

Here I leave you a video so you can see how to assemble it, even if it puts plex, it is the same, it will serve you the same as it did for me in its day.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9gAXtoQKI

[Caliber 0]

theres ike a play button under it says mount 210mb partition ? could it be that easy ?

[MediaEmby1968 47]

I'm going to sleep, I'll read to you tomorrow.

[MediaEmby1968 47]

Notice that on the left side you'll see the drives you have mounted. You need to connect the external drive and change the mount point. Don't touch that 210MB one... without seeing it... I'd say it's the UEFI partition. First, watch the video and find out how to use that program to mount disk drives.

[sargenthp 35]

14 hours ago, Caliber said:

I will try maybe freebsd 

Permissions are going to work the same on all UNIX like OS's.  Linux will have better support and more drivers.

[sargenthp 35]

Please copy and post the output for the following commands at the command line...

lsblk

df

 

[Caliber 0]

debian@Debian:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 119.2G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   976M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2   8:2    0 112.5G  0 part /
└─sda3   8:3    0   5.8G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   0  23.6T  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   0   200M  0 part 
└─sdb2   8:18   0  23.6T  0 part /media/debian/USB
debian@Debian:~$ 

Edited November 7, 2025 by Caliber

[Caliber 0]

I have tried over 15 linux distros and I like debian 13 the best I'm keeping debian as my main OS on all my computers from now on it looks and feels the best out of every OS I ever used. So if I can get emby running on this great if not that's also ok. Thank you for helping!