EMBY KODI NEW INSTALL USB DRIVE RECOGNIZED BUT PATH REJECTED

[GSSA1 0]

The Emby Dashboard won't accept my USB hard drive path, including manual entry.

Simple path is: /media/gary/WD BLACK 1TB/Movies

I went to media and granted "anyone" permissions to the external drive and the folder.

I ALSO RESEARCHED AND EXECUTED A "GRANT All" command for Ebmy

 

This is a fresh install. Kodi 15.2. Kodibuntu 14.4, and latest Emrby Server with Emby for Kodi addon

 

Any ideas would be most appreciated.

Thx

[Angelblue05 4132]

What server platform are you using? You won't find help in this section of the forums, because we only really help with the Emby for Kodi add-on.

Edited November 8, 2015 by Angelblue05

[GSSA1 0]

Sorry for misplacement....noob. To answer your question I am using Emby Server on Kodibuntu.

[Luke 42077]

you want to make sure the Emby account is able to access them.

[GSSA1 0]

you want to make sure the Emby account is able to access them.

would you mind telling me the command(s) for doing that? Please?  I presume using my name/user in the set-up wizard instead of "emby" was a bad decision and emby cant/wont touch my attached hard drive library. Thx!

[GSSA1 0]

Bump for a lil help. How to grant access to emby?

[Angelblue05 4132]

I will move your thread to Linux server so you can get more help.

[GSSA1 0]

I am going to try the following on a fresh install of KodiBuntu (14.04) and Kodi Helix. Emby server is installed. I have some questions. FYI...I am a big time noob, normally using windows.

 

First: Are we still using (user) "mediabrowser" or is it now "emby?"

Second: What is the command to move my hard drive's folders (movies) to the new "/data" folder (or whatever the name would be) in the root?

Thirdly: Will there be a conflict with the command including "media" (per FIRSTOFTHE300's example, see quote below).

, given that the default path to MOVIES includes "/media," or is this intentional?

 

BACKSTORY: I have "gary" as user, and "emby" as a user from the install. The drives are attached usb, named "WDBLACK" AND "WDBLUE." Each drive has a folder "Movies, "home videos" and "music."

In the Browser (8096) I can select these paths (or type them in on command line) and a pop-up warns ..."be sure emby has access to them." Then nothing happens. Eg., /media/gary/WDBLACK/movies.

Thanks for any help!

 

 

 

thefirstofthe300, on 12 Mar 2015 - 11:52 AM, said:

 

 

From the looks of everything, you have your videos in your home folder?

 

The last error in the log appears to still be related to permissions issues. Ubuntu is quite locked down when it comes to permissions so it may not like the fact that all of your videos are in your home folder.

 

The best way to go about setting up you library is to create a folder in the root filesystem (for example, /data) and move the videos to that folder. Then change the permissions so that MediaBrowser can access them (I do believe something like chown -R mediabrowser /data will do). To allow only certain users access to the folders, you will want a group dedicated to media management. Create the group media using groupadd media. Add the mediabrowser user to it with usermod -aG media mediabrowser. Add your user to the group with usermod -aG media {YOUR_USERNAME}. Change the permissions to be writable by the group: chmod 775 -R /data. Change the group owner on th folder: chgrp -R media /data. And you should be done with setting up the permissions and MediaBrowser should have full reign over your library.

[mickr 1]

The best way to go about setting up you library is to create a folder in the root filesystem (for example, /data) and move the videos to that folder. Then change the permissions so that MediaBrowser can access them ....

 

I would like the ability use an USB drive for the Emby server media instead of root - Similar to the manner in which Roku allows one to play moves from an attached NTFS USB terabyte drive (via /media/). There are problems here, however, since Emby requires ownership of the resource - And due the peculiarities of working with USB drives on Linux (CentOS 6.7 in this case), chown and chattr won't work on the USB drive. The USB media files, when copied from the USB drive to root, still must have their immutable bit reset.

 

Any hope for using the NTFS USB drive? Or must I save the media on root and format the drive using ext (I believe the USB interface will still have problems with chmod)?