I dont know … what permissions does emby use ? is it part of some group? I couldnt find any information from their docs or ‘support’.
I suppose you could make a directory where ‘everyone’ has read/write/execute permissions, such as by using chmod 777 … but that is not really recommended.
I still think the better thing would be like this:
If you have a tutorial … why dont you follow it?
I have never used emby, so I doubt I bring anything extra to the table.
From what I saw it seems a pretty simple ‘start the service, navigate to localhost:8096 in your browser, and select your giant media folder’.
cd my-storage
sudo mkdir embylibrary
sudo chown emby:emby embylibrary
(note - this is all example … you can use whatever structure you want. The archwiki also seems to suggest augmenting the service so that emby user is in the shared group … and use shared group to own your desired directory [it also seems to suggest using a generic /mnt/shared directory] if you want emby to also have write and delete abilities.)
im in my-storage i dont execute mkdir embylibrary because i have make Emby folder with you when i have make my permission when i try sudo chown emby:emby Emby i recive error message invalid user
So I guess I will regurgitate/simplify our steps here since we did it anyways…
sudo pacman -S emby-server
systemctl enable emby-server --now
sudo mkdir /path/to/our/new/library/on/external/partition/emby-library # 'sudo' only necessary if you do not have permissions on the external partition
sudo chown emby:emby /path/to/our/new/library/on/external/partition/emby-library
Then browse to http://localhost:8096 and set up your things.
(you’ve already done all that … so … I guess it should work now)
Well thats all I know.
Which … for emby … is not much.
But now, as per the thread title, you have some better understanding of permissions and further resources.
