Arch Linux - Emby unable to find external hdd + directories.

[Peter Piper 0]

Hey,

 

I have tried to setup emby to 'read' my external hdd with directories and sub-directories.

Below is my 'ls -l' readout for the root external hdd:

drwxr-xr-x 64 dave dave 4096 Jan 11 15:22 My_Films
drwxrwxrwx 54 dave dave 4096 Jan 11 14:30 My_TV
drwxrwxrwx  3 dave dave 4096 Nov 20 11:31 Webms

Any help would be great as I would like to see this working.

Thanks.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, where exactly are you having a problem?

[Peter Piper 0]

Hi, on the "Add media libraries" setup page.

For some reason emby cannot find the hdd.

 

Addition: I am using Arch Linux 64 bit.

Edited January 11, 2019 by Peter Piper

[sfatula 207]

But you have to mount the "root" eternal HD into some directory, such as /mnt or whatever. What are the permissions for that directory, and any other parent directory? What is the full path to the directory you showed above?

Edited January 12, 2019 by sfatula

[Peter Piper 0]

But you have to mount the "root" eternal HD into some directory, such as /mnt or whatever. What are the permissions for that directory, and any other parent directory? What is the full path to the directory you showed above?

 

 

Hi, the mount point and full path is:

/run/media/dave/Backup

Permissions are:

[dave@antergos Backup]$ ls -l
total 24
drwxrwxrwx 2 dave autologin 4096 Jul 5 2018 APKs
drwxrwxrwx 5 dave autologin 4096 Dec 12 18:39 'Arch Linux'
-rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave 102 Dec 6 18:48 bitwarden
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dave autologin 44 Jul 9 2018 maltego
drwxrwxrwx 6 dave dave 4096 Jan 11 17:34 My_Media
drwxrwxrwx 3 dave autologin 4096 Dec 13 13:46 RAR
[dave@antergos Backup]$ 

Thanks.

[sfatula 207]

And what path is My_TV in? Underneath My_Media?

 

When adding the new media library, under folder, you are putting what exactly?

[Peter Piper 0]

And what path is My_TV in? Underneath My_Media?

 

Yes and My_Films is also. Full path to My_Videos on external HDD:

/run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos

And the two subsequent folders I would like to add to emby are:

/run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos/My_Films
/run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos/My_TV

 

When adding the new media library, under folder, you are putting what exactly?

 

 

This:

/run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos/My_Films
/run/media/dave/Backup/My_Media/My_Videos/My_TV

But both are not picked up by emby.

Thanks.

[sfatula 207]

To see where it's failing, in the "folder" field under add media library, simply put a / and hit the search icon to the right. Now, try and navigate folder level by level to where you want. Where does it stop, or does it work?

[Peter Piper 0]

Okay, so it fails at the following:

/run/media/dave

Edited January 12, 2019 by Peter Piper

[sfatula 207]

Okay, so it fails at the following:

 

/run/media/dave

Ok, so, in a terminal window, cd to /run/media and post ls -l results. Assuming you can't get anything under dave.

[Peter Piper 0]

Okay here it is:

[dave@antergos media]$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 60 Jan 12 06:31 dave
drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 60 Jan 12 05:00 root
[dave@antergos media]$ 

And under "/run/media/dave":

[dave@antergos dave]$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 7 dave dave 4096 Jan 11 17:34 Backup
[dave@antergos dave]$ 

[sfatula 207]

So, the emby user has no permissions to get past dave since it's owned by root, and the group is root. You need to chmod 775 dave.

[Peter Piper 0]

Okay, I got this problem sorted.

I simply had to change the mount point using the "Disks" program in the main menu (See pics).

 

Everything works great now!

 

 

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the feedback !

[sfatula 207]

Yep, that works too, as would changing perms if you did want to keep it where it was. Glad you got it working!

[Peter Piper 0]

@@Luke

@@sfatula

 

No problem.

I must say the emby interface looks amazing.

[Luke 42077]

Thank for the feedback !