Query about linking in LAN folders for library

[lawrencewhite1992]

Forgive me if im being dumb, im very new to containers/docker. dipping my toes as it were.

My day job is a network engineer/IT engineer. This is part of my homelab setup. I Love to selfhost, so naturally this intrigues me.

How would one connect a network folder as a library?

I am running docker in an ubuntu VM.

VM itself can access the nx share - mounted etc.

I can connect to the container as expected from a separate network location, and download a game in the default library location.

I added the network library in the yaml, saw what this does so have reversed it back to default (again - VERY new to docker/container usage)

I'm in the admin dashboard inthe "create source" page, and i cant seem to get the path to recognise a network path.

Open to being educated and corrected here.

Screenshot shows admin dashboard access via LAN on the left. have tried numerous different path types to get to that location.

[DecDuck]

The admin panel's input takes a file path that's within the Docker container. You'll need to share the network share from the VM to the container using a mount.

For example, if you can access your network share on your VM at /mnt/nas, you'd add /nas:/mnt/nas to your Docker config, and then add a library source with /nas as the path.

[lawrencewhite1992]

perfect, thank you for explaining that to me.

I ended up creating a volume for the container in compose, then also using compose to mount it in the container.

thanks for your help.

also, loving Drop so far. I self host jellyfin(windows server host) amongst other thigns for the kids (4 kids). all are PC games, drop will be so damn useful.