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Aspirant

Apr 05, 2019

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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...

StephenB
Apr 06, 2019
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.

Sandshark

Sensei - Experienced User

Apr 06, 2019

I think you are better off using Plex itself to find the other NAS share, but I'm not a Plex user and can't help you there. 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// I recommend you try method 3 first to see it it's going to do what you want, then use #6 to make it permanent. You can also do that using NFS, which is a native Linux file system. Just Google "Linux mount external NFS share". I assume the Drobo, which is also Linux based, supports NFS.

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Apr 06, 2019

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.

schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 06, 2019
StephenB wrote:

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.

Must have mixed up Kodi and Plex - oh well, I'm sorry for that misleading hint SiDuB .
SiDuB
Aspirant
Apr 06, 2019
Thank You Everyone for the help, i was able to figure it out, i added the NFS app to my drobo and then went to configure it and it showed me the addresses i sould be using.

for TNC-MOVIES

mount 192.168.1.13:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/TNC-MOVIES /data/TNC-MOVIES

for TNC-MUSIC

mount 192.168.1.13:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/TNC-MUSIC /data/TNC-MUSIC

Now i was ready the #6 on that site and combined the two and hopefully it will work on a reboot.

for TNC-MOVIES

#vi /etc/fstab//192.168.1.13:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/TNC-MOVIES /data/TNC-MOVIES nfs rw 0 0

and for TNC-MUSIC

#vi /etc/fstab//192.168.1.13:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/TNC-MUSIC /data/TNC-MUSIC nfs rw 0 0

and then i went on to the PMS on my RN214 and was able to see the mounts and it populated my Plex Movie folder.

Thanks again everyone
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 07, 2019
SiDuB wrote:

Thank You Everyone for the help, i was able to figure it out, i added the NFS app to my drobo and then went to configure it and it showed me the addresses i sould be using.

Great! Thx for sharing your solution.