Separate the emby server from the storage server

[WinXaito]

Hello,

I would like to have an emby server on a VPS, with my media on an external server.

I tried to create a webdav (saber / dav) on the second server and mount a disk on my VPS with davfs2.

But it does not seem to work, emby does not recognize any media. (and I tried with a symlink, but I get a 500 error from the server when reading).

Can you tell me if it's possible to do what I want (separate the emby server from the storage server).

Thanking you.

[YanzheL]

My solution to this is to mount a Samba/AFP network share using GVFS on linux as a virtual file system.
I did some tests and it works perfectly.
GVFS may be a built-in feature on some linux distributions. My OS is ubuntu 18.04.

Steps

1. Prepare smb credentials file smb.key which contains

username
WORKGROUP
password

2. Mount SMB share as GVFS volume
   replace SMB_HOSTNAME and SHARE_NAME with your info

gio mount 'smb://SMB_HOSTNAME/SHARE_NAME' < smb.key

3. Create a symlink of this volume to your Emby library path
   UID is your current linux user id. Emby should have permissions on this volume.

ln -s '/run/user/UID/gvfs/smb-share:server=SMB_HOSTNAME,share=SHARE_NAME' /path/to/your/emby/library

Notes:

1. SMB storage server can running on linux; it is not limited to Windows only.
2. The network connection between SMB server and Emby should be good enough. I suggest to put these VPSs on LAN at same region, eg. Virtual Private Cloud.

[LukePulverenti]

Right, we don't have native support for this, I would just mount it in the OS as a local path, then add that to Emby. Does this help?