Adding Library from a WD MyCloud device

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Morning all,

ok i have Plex running on a Raspberry Pi with a USB Hardrive attached to it and this works great, it can see the media and it all indexed fine.

I decide to brush the dust of my WD MyCloud 3TB box and from windows i can see the share fine via \IP_Address…
I’ve installed Plex on my Desktop and it is happy witht he above (i dont need to create a mapped drive) and indexes ok.

so i’d like to use the WD via the Pi instead (i dont keep the pc running all the time) … so when i had a library i can only see the local
linux shares, the USB drive is in the /MNT/ folder already…

So do i need to create a manual folder in the /mnt area and then somehow link the UNC path to that folder…

on the windows version i was able to just use the UNC Path for the library folder… doesnt seem to let me on the Pi version.

just checking to see what the correct method is… thanks.

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been doing lots of playing…

i notice my Pi had SMBClient preinstalled… so in the end the following command worked.

mount -t cifs -o user=,password= //{IP_ADDRESS}/Public /mnt/wdmedia/

now on the WDMyCloud, there is a Public folder which doesnt require any username/password to access it. In Windows
i could just get to the folder no problem and that what i wanted to get via the Pi. so the above will do that.

Now on the WD i can create password user folders so the above i could refine so it passes the correct Creds.

maybe there was/is a better way…

now i need to make it so that it gets mounted if i reboot… guess that where FSTAB file comes in…?