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Post by oblio on May 2, 2021 16:34:05 GMT
Hello Community,
I was wondering if anyone has in depth experience using Plex Media Server?
I had been running Plex on my Bodhi 4.x system but have been away from that system for over a year and a half. As such, I'm unfamiliar with what all has changed with Plex. With that Plex setup, only my music was able to be discovered. On an older version of Plex (or Bodhi 3.x, or both), all of my media was able to be discovered (Music, Movies, TV Shows). I have basically kept to my same file system and have explored their forums/FAQs, etc (RTFM). No matter how I attempt to point Plex at my media, nothing is discovered, following their described paths (or at least I think, following their paths/conventions).
Part of what I think may be occurring is that I have SSDs in use within my systems - Bodhi is installed on these and then I use separate HDDs for my data. I'm suspecting, due to the behavior of Plex, that it is expecting my music to be in a directory on the SSD, with the rest of the OS.
I was wondering if anyone else has had struggles with this?
I was wondering if you could/should use a symlink (or something along those lines?) from within the SSD to point at the HDD folder as some sort of work around? I'm pretty sure this is a simple case of user error on my part or some peculiarity with Plex I am not fully grasping. It doesn't make sense that pointing the Music library within Plex to a music folder on ANY drive with sub directories (setup as they describe, following their naming conventions, etc.), wouldn't just work. I'm using the Plex Web App to access my server locally.
I'm missing something more basic, I feel.
Anyway, if anyone has experience with Plex's handling of libraries, that would be excellent. Thank you!
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Post by enigma9o7 on May 2, 2021 19:03:50 GMT
I had similar issue when I first switched from windows to linux, the primary thing I needed to keep running was my plex server before I could switch. I didn't know at all what I was doing. All my media was on ntfs parition and plex server saw it from windows but not from bodhi, even tho I could access the drive fine in file manager. Long story short, the user named "plex" needs access and the partition has to be mounted automatically (not just when you open it in file manager, which I've now learned is when it actually gets mounted if it isn't in fstab).
In my case, the plex user did not have necessarily permission for ntfs drive (even tho my account did). I didn't know what I was doing at the time so I created fstab entry and made it mount the ntfs partition as username plex. I'm sure there is a better solution if you understand linux permissions and ownership and fstab, but I didn't understand anything then, and only a little bit more now so can't provide actual method to correct, but hopefully this hint helps steer you on the right path...
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Post by oblio on May 3, 2021 13:51:23 GMT
I had similar issue when I first switched from windows to linux, the primary thing I needed to keep running was my plex server before I could switch. I didn't know at all what I was doing. All my media was on ntfs parition and plex server saw it from windows but not from bodhi, even tho I could access the drive fine in file manager. Long story short, the user named "plex" needs access and the partition has to be mounted automatically (not just when you open it in file manager, which I've now learned is when it actually gets mounted if it isn't in fstab).
In my case, the plex user did not have necessarily permission for ntfs drive (even tho my account did). I didn't know what I was doing at the time so I created fstab entry and made it mount the ntfs partition as username plex. I'm sure there is a better solution if you understand linux permissions and ownership and fstab, but I didn't understand anything then, and only a little bit more now so can't provide actual method to correct, but hopefully this hint helps steer you on the right path...
Thank you, enigma9o7.
I'll have to check into that. That mounting detail may be enough to solve this - I did notice the drives were not initially mounted and thought just clicking them to spin-up/access was enough. Certainly makes sense to take a look at fstab.
The other potential issue is that my music collection has been moving from machine to machine since roughly 1995, so it has been on all sorts of them running both windows on Linux. This particular machine (my old PC, but has Bodhi 6.0.0) falls into the category of having drives that were ntfs in windows. Interestingly, my newer PC (but has Bodhi 4.5) runs Plex just fine, but both the SSD and HDDs have only ever been used with Linux.
Thank you for the help - this is great! I'll hopefully have some time in the evening in the next day or two to take a look.  |
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