SMB path for thumb

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I am currently working on a plugin/channel.  When populating a directoryobject I am trying to use an image that via the SMB share.  The image/thumb never shows up.  Is this supported or am I doing it wrong.  Below is a sample format of what I have it do.  The object builds fine and functions as designed.  I just can't get it to pull the thumb image from a smb share.  

 

oc.add(DirectoryObject(key = Callback(Info, ID=ID),
                                       title = Name + '(' + ID + ')',
                                       thumb = smb://username:password@SERVER/path/file.png
                                       ))
 
Thanks for any help you all can give.
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Will not use SMB as I don't think Plex will work with it.  My only other option would be UNC paths.  Is there a way to pass unc paths for the thumb images and fanart?

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Making some progress but stuck here now.

For the thumb image I pass file://server/public/images/image.png and it works on the Server.  When the channel is accessed from a client it makes the request look like :

http://127.0.0.1:32400/file://server/Users/Public/images/image.png

This returns a 404 error obviously but when it is accessed from the server it makes a call like this:

file://server/Users/Public/images/image.png

and this works.  I can access it from the client with the above path so my question is, what triggers plex to add http://127.0.0.1:32400/ in front when accessed from the client?  Can this be removed or triggered to not happen?

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Even when the URL wouldn't include the 127.0.0.1 part, it still wouldn't work, because file:// always refers to the a local resource and the image is not available on the clients. For thumbs, the only way to get it working is to have the images available over http.

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Thanks for the reply sander.  

I have another option but I am not sure if this one is possible.  Is it possible to write and delete to the resource folder from within the plugin?  If so, I can receive the file via the socket connection I am making to the backend source and feed the images that way.  

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