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Access Drobo Shares
Equipment:
NAS1 = Drobo5N - 10TB
NAS2 = RN214 - 16TB
Router = Nighthawk X10 R9000
Modem = CM700
PC = Intel i5
So right now i run PLEX on the PC and all is going good. I have my Movies and Music on the Drobo and Tv Show on the RN214. What my goal is to do is still run the main PLEX off the PC but if something happens have a PLEX running on the RN214 so my friends and family don't lose any connection time (in case i need to replace a drive ont the PC or something).
So i have installed PLEX on the RN214 and beings that the TV Show are stored localy on the Rn214 no problems setting up that folder, as for the Movies and Music nothing.
1st attempt was to try to navigate to the network share but beings as im not a linux user finding the smb share was not happening and figuring out how to mount the drobo share to the RN214 i googled this and couldn't find anything.
2nd attempt create a share and use the DFS and this didnt work either I created a new share and gave it the network ip address and the folder name but no files populated the folder.
If someone could help me out on what im missing or if this cant be done let me know.
Thnaks in advance
SiDuB
Sandshark wrote:
I think you are better off using Plex itself to find the other NAS share,
That can't be done, since Plex doesn't allow you to add a network share to its library. SiDuB can't find the network browse feature in Plex because there isn't one.
So he does need to mount the share (as he is already doing on the Windows PMS by mapping them to drive letters). In Linux, they need to be mounted on "mount points" - which basically are "placeholder" folders.
Sandshark wrote:
If you really do want to mount the share on your ReadyNAS, here are some ways: 8-ways-to-mount-smbfs-samba-file-system-in-linux//
This of course requires ssh. Something along these lines will work, but as Sandshark says the methods 1-5 in the link aren't sticky (you'd need to redo them whenever you reboot either the NAS or the Drobo).
You can create an empty share on the NAS called "Drobo", and create subfolders for each media share on the Drobo that you want to include in the ReadyNAS PMS. These are the placeholders (e.g, the mount points). You mount the Drobo shares on those subfolders, and then add those subfolders to the ReadyNAS PMS library.
Once you get this all working, you could attempt to modify /etc/fstab (perhaps using method 6), so it would automatically do these mounts whenever the NAS is booted up. I suggest making a copy of the fstab file, and then editing the copy. After that looks right, you can rename the your file to fstab.
All this is a fair amount of work to do for a hypothetical situation. Not sure it's really worth the effort.
schumaku wrote:
Forget DFS.
Well, obviously it isn't working, so he has to. But if it had worked, it would have allowed him to achieve his goal w/o using SSH.
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Here is a screen grab of the setting for the movies folder
Movies is a network share on the Drobo? Have you checked with them on whether they support DFS?
So im guessing the DFS works witht he Drobo becuase on my windows 10 PC i can goto the ReadyNAS and the click on the Drobo share and it shows me the files.
But this issue im having is when i try to use it in PLEX nothing shows up. as you can see in the screenshot above
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