help with path substitution / folder setup (linux server, kodi clients)

[bob808 2]

I have setup an ubunti server and have several openelec kodi clients.

 

I have setup my folders in emby server with /media/Movies/Kids, /media/Movies/3D, /media/Movies/Movies or /Media/TVSeries etc.  Kodi has built the libraries and I see all the files.  I can play everything in the web client, or in emby theatre.  On Kodi I get an error saying 'playback failed'.

 

I have played around with path substitutions and am getting pactchy success - I may get the error a few times, but then eventually everythign works - until a server restart.  I have tried mapping as follows:

 

/media/Movies   >  \\ip\Movies (I have an SMB share for /media/Movies called Movies)

I also tried doing this for every subfolder and tried SMB://media/Movies instead but no success.

 

Should I be using some other way of setting the folders for the library in emby, or am I just doing this wrong?  When I used to run emby from windows i would simply have the shares set to \\ip\Movies\Movies etc and this always worked.

[bob808 2]

I could try NFS instead of SMB - would I just need to change the substitution for this type of share?  

[Luke 42077]

Mono has no native support for unc shares, so you need to mount those to a local share and then add those local shares to emby.

[bob808 2]

sorry Luke, you mean on kodi I need to mount the share -or for emby server?  I already have local drives in the emby server box (microserver) so they are mounted for Emby:

 

 

All of my media is on local drives int he linux machine eg /media/TVSeries or /media/Movies.  In the web config I am having mixed success if i use a path substitution from /media/Movies to \\ipaddress\Movies but it doesnt seem to work 100% of the time.