Symbolic Links for Libraries?

[Mchar7 0]

I am trying to setup my home media server so that me and my roommate can both have our own managed Emby accounts with our own media. We do share some favorites, and I am trying to make a folder that can share some of my files with him.

 

I would make put a symbolic link in the shared folder to each specific movie in my personal folder that I want shared. His library would then be his folder PLUS the shared folder.

 

When I tried this, Plex picked up the shared media, but Emby did not. Am I doing this right or is this a limitation?

 

TREE:

 

.../PlexServerMedia/
├── ME
│   ├── Movies
│   │   ├── Anchorman (2004)

           ...
│   │   └── The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
│   └── TV Shows
│       ├── Fargo
...
├── ROOMMATE
│   ├── Movies

      ...
│   └── TV Shows

      ...
└── shared
    └── me-roommate-share
        ├── movies
        │   ├── Deadpool (2016) -> .../PlexServerMedia/ME/Movies/Deadpool (2016)

              ...
        │   └── The Shawshank Redemption (1994) -> .../HomeStorage/PlexServerMe...
        └── tv
            └── Stranger Things -> .../PlexServerMedia/ME/TV Shows/Stranger Things

# note: changed names and added "..." for long lists/lines

[mastrmind11 722]

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/53697-emby-does-not-longer-handle-symlinks/?hl=symlink

[Luke 42078]

Yes it appears they don't work consistently across all operating systems. Hopefully the upcoming .net core 2.1 runtime will improve this.