Access Drobo Shares

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Sandshark wrote:

I think you are better off using Plex itself to find the other NAS share,

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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.

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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//  

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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.

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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.