Emby Docker Shares

[screwfaze 38]

Hi,

 

I have installed Freenas 10 and Emby Server Docker container but can figure out how to get my windows shares mapped to the Server. I have another machine running Windows with Media I would like to add to Emby but I have not found a way to do this. Can anyone help any suggestions welcome.

 

Thanks

[mastrmind11 722]

well, what have you tried?

[screwfaze 38]

When I go to add the Library tried Network and nothing comes up. I dont know how to map the windows share to Docker basically.

 

Thanks

[screwfaze 38]

Any suggestions how to do this?

 

Thanks

[Luke 42077]

Have you made sure that the Docker container has access to the paths you want to add?

[screwfaze 38]

Hi,

 

You can close this I setup an Ubuntu server VM on freenas instead and got all my shares mapped now.

 

Thanks

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for reporting back.

[mguebert 10]

I got this working through some trial and error. You cannot browse for Windows network shares. You will need to enter the UNC paths manually like //myserverip/share

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the update, and yes this is true. The mono runtime does not support windows shares.

[OmegaWulf 0]

Hey guys, I'm having this same issue but can't get it to work.  I'm running Emby on Docker in a swarm on Linux.  I'm able to open the Emby web app to configure but can't add any libraries (I guess technically I can add the library, but when I click "OK" I get an error saying there was an error accessing the media path).  All my stuff is on a Windows 2012 server. I tried //myserverip/share but that didn't work.   I'm guessing it is because there's no way to enter credentials in the Emby web interface to access a Windows share?  If that's true, then how does Emby installed on Windows work for access shares?

 

I'm confused, can someone help me out?

[Luke 42077]

The mono runtime does not support smb shares, so what you need to do is mount it locally within the docker container, and then add the local path to Emby.

 

As far as adding native support for smb shares, you can see here:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/46458-32104-native-smb-support/

[OmegaWulf 0]

My next question was going to be, "how to I mount a share in the docker container?" But then I saw this:  https://docs.docker.com/engine/tutorials/dockervolumes/#mount-a-host-directory-as-a-data-volume

 

Under the section, Mount a shared-storage volume as a data volume is that what you are referring to?