Help with running Emby on Nethserver 7

[Duncan_Rix]

Hi all
My nethserver is within a home environment acting as a central store for all family media. This is held with in a smb share in AD mode wich is accessed directly by multiple kodi box’s around the house.
I wish to also use Emby as it’s ability to cast directly to my many DLNA devices is very good. Plus I would like to use it’s external access features in conjunction with my tvheadend server.

I have installed Emby using there info found there site https://emby.media/linux-server.html
Emby is up and running ok as in I can access the web interface.
I just have two problems that I would appreciate some advice on.

Firstly is getting Emby able to access the data held within the ibay folder. I realize this is due to Emby not being AD aware. That and the default user the service runs under “emby” is not an AD account. Now in the past I’ve just simply chmod -R 775 (I think from memory) to the share folder.
This usually works fine but I would like to know if there is a better way or some group I can add the emby user to?

My second problem is how can I make the Emby server aware of the servers SSL certificate supplied by letsencrypt. In the settings of Emby when asked for the cerificate I have pointed it to /etc/letsencrypt/live/fog.cloud-d.co.uk/cert.pem but I assume again Emby dose not have permission to access.

Thanks in advance for any reply’s. Any extra info required from me I will do my best to answer.

[pike (Michael Kicks)]

Would you please share the steps you took for start your emby server?
The url simply says…

CentOS X64

1. yum install https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.0.2.0/emby-server-rpm_4.0.2.0_x86_64.rpm
2. Open a web browser to http://localhost:8096

But into wiki

MediaBrowser/Wiki

Lacks to explain how this mediaserver interacts with the OS…

[Duncan_Rix]

Thanks for your time pike not sure I understand what information your after. As the install really is as easy as just two commands.
Emby is much like plex in operation. Its an installable program that you interface with via a web page. On witch you can add local folders to your emby server media library. This can then be accessed by web browser or cast direct to dnla network devices. It runs as a pam user “emby” is what I understand.

[pike (Michael Kicks)]

I followed some of the docs/howtos related to install UniFi managament server on a Linux server

Install Unify controller on NethServer 7

Hi, The Ubiquity hardware is a well fined hardware for enterprise ( and for home ) and spread the world successfully. Perhaps, it could be a good implementation for the NethServer project to integratr easely the Ubiquity Software. For exemple, the Pfsense project integrate perfectly the Ubiquiti Wifi solution. Edit: To answer the initial topic ask… NethServer do the job perfectly.

then I added all the steps for “nethifi” the setup a bit.
Not as good as been done here…

HowTo install Unifi controller on a NethServer

I’ve been experimenting with unifi controller, both on NS 6 and NS 7, here’s an HowTo that will: Install UniFi controller Use Let’s Encrypt cert to have a secure https connection to UniFi Controller Configure the Controller and the Access Points to function in a cloud based solution, with remote AP Provisioning Install EPEL NS 6.8 cd /tmp yum -y install http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm yum update NS 7 should already come with epel installed, or: yu…

But… it helped a bit.
UniFi requires some other linux components (Java, mongodb).

Getting back to Emby…
I hope that the project explain “how it works, and how it’s connected to Linux”, so a skilled enough linux guy could be able do “adapt” it to his enviroment.
NethServer lays over Centos, but into development documentation is explained how. I were not able to find it for Emby on the site… after a quick search, i had to admit.

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

This usually works fine but I would like to know if there is a better way or some group I can add the emby user to?

Instead of chmod you may set “allow read permission to everyone” or simply use guest access:

My second problem is how can I make the Emby server aware of the servers SSL certificate supplied by letsencrypt.

For the emby SSL server to start you would need a pkcs12 cert, see https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/42315-creating-a-letsencrypt-ssl-certificate-for-emby/

It’s easier to use a virtualhost reverse proxy. This way you can reach emby by browsing to https://myserver.domain.local (adapt to your virtualhost) and you don’t need to open additional firewall ports or setup SSL in Emby.

[Duncan_Rix]

Thank you for the help mrmarkuz

I had all ready read in another thread with regards to the “allow read permission to everyone” option. At first this did not work for me but turns out I just needed to restart the server as Emby can now access the data.

As for the reverse proxy idea that’s working too. Only gripe with this is that my default SSL cert dose not cover the new sub.domain that I’ve set-up for emby. But other than that it’s working fine so many thanks for the suggestions