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I current have a emby server running on my pc with little to no issues.   It plays my movie and tv files from a networked windows server. 

 

I decided to install a second emby server on the windows server.  I have the library pointing to the same files and location as the first emby server.  However the paths are local to the second the second emby server whereas the paths are shared on the first emby server.

 

When I try to play movies or tv files on the second emby server(with the first sever shutdown) I get the spinning wheel.  I also have live tv setup and it plays with no issues on the second emby server.  Again the first server plays the same movies with no issues.

 

I've attached my log files for technical review.  I believe where I started playing a movie is near the bottom of the log file. Please help.

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I have since did a fresh install and all files are now playing. 

 

Background:

I have a funky setup using "stablebit (drive pool software for WHS). 

 

Sequence of Events:

I had installed a new hard drive(C:), restored a clone of my previous C; drive,  then installed emby pointing to my files on a "pool drive". Nothing would play.  Metadata was present but no playing of files. Well, very few would play, but most would not.  (Probably of the structure of the "pool" drive.)

 

What I didn't know was that I had to reactivate my stablebit license so that I could access the "pool" files.  So I did that and thought the file access would cascade down to emby. 

It didn't so I had to reinstall emby. 

No issues now.

 

Thanks all.

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Hi there, thanks for the investigation and follow-up with the resolution.

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