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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 an...
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.
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
SiDuB wrote:
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
On the same LAN, you should go the SMB way...
SiDuB wrote:
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.
That's unlikley DFS - when you see the ReadyNAS in the left explorer bar (unless it was mounted manually) by discovery, that's SMB.
Thanks for the heads up, I'm a windows user and i know the ReadyNAS is linux bases (Debian i think), All i want to do is get the PMS (Plex Media Server) that is running on the ReadyNAS to see my Drobo share so it can update the Plex library.
As shown in the screenshot on my other post it does not let me see my network to point to the share.
The movies shared folder settings (by DFS) would be a shared folder on the ReadyNAS - that won't create a mount to another device.
Can't see the in-line screenshots (add these as attachments like the one with the share, not as in-line - attachments are not prone to moderation) yet - you define the data sources on Plex (including external ones), not on the NAS.
schumaku wrote:
On the same LAN, you should go the SMB way...That is what i would love to do but how?
i've tried the smb://192.168.1.13/TNC-MOVIES and nothing showed
I did find the /mnt folder but nothing in it.
if i could find a /smb/WORKGROUP/TNC-DROBO/TNC-MUSIC that would work but i have no idea how to set this up in a Linux environment
So in this URI smb://192.168.1.13/TNC-MOVIES the .13 IP is the Drovo and TMC-MOVJES (all uppercase?) is a shared folder on the Drobo you can reach form Windows Explorer like \\192.168.1.13\TNC-MOVIES (or you can simply browse to it)?
So t understand what role you have in mind for the ReadyNAS.
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