Live TV recording to SMB share fails

[WCFJ78 1]

Backstory: I've been using Emby for over a year, serving it from Synology.  The default recording folder is whatever the default is.  I'm in the process of trying to eliminate this instance and migrating to a Emby server installed within Linux (Ubuntu server).

On the new server I have set up the libraries.  For the Recording library, I deleted the default location and replaced it with a SMB share.  I verified that the credentials I provided for the share have full access.  When a show attempts to record there are numerous failures listed in the dashboard that say nothing more useful than "recording (show name) has failed on (servername)."  

Is there a log somewhere that provides a more verbose error output?

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

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Thanks!

 

[WCFJ78 1]

I actually figured it out with a little help from ChatGPT.  It appears that I cannot record directly to a programmed SMB share within Emby.  I got what I was trying to do to work by mounting a folder within the OS filesystem to a SMB share (/mnt/embyrecordings -> \\server\recordings) by adding the mount point config to /etc/fstab.

Edited November 28, 2025 by WCFJ78

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for following up.