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Any help is appreciated already have 10 hours in to this problem to no avail. Currently using 13.04 with a Mediasonic 8 drive RAID box (HF2-SU3S2) over eSATA. Reformatted from NTFS to EXT4, added permissions for both plugdev and 'drew' groups and still getting zero recognition of folders or files from Plex (FYI XBMC has no problem). probably a permissions issue, I'm sure with a little bit of messing around you could get it work without this add, but I decided I'm fine with having 2 directories for plex to look in.Īppreciate all the tips but I am still having the same problem here. it looks as though you will need to add the usb mount point directory (in my case /home/user/videos/USB) to the plex library, the parent directory didn't suffice in my case.
Thanks for the help, and I hope my messy and distorted post will help someone. Once I saved the file, I opened up Plex and it worked! dev/sdc1 /home/user/videos/usb ntfs defaults 0 0
Install plex media server linux terminal headless windows#
Now it's time to mount the USB drive, follow along:Īdd the following line (correcting for your dev, dir and file system (it works with ntfs which surprised me thorougly, also allowing me to read/write from my windows computer) I also changed group permission to plugdev to coincide with Jualin's advice (for my share I also added plex to sambashare because I wasn't sure if the parent folders ownership would affect the USB device as I mounted it to the sambashare location, I wanted to make sure I can access the USB via samba).
Once I got this infomation I created the mount point directory, now for this I simply used nautilus and created the folder. Now I'm a linux noob, if I make a mistake please do correct me, but I'll make an attempt to explain how I got mine to work.įirst I figured out what my USB device name is (/dev/sd***), I personally did this with gparted and found that the partition I wished to share was /dev/sdc1 (I think this can also be accomplished with: I put it in the same location as all my plex media. I implemented the solution above but also changed the mount point for the USB hard drive. Just incase anyone else stumbles upon this and needs help I'll post what I did to make it work. THIS was a huge part in solving this issue! I've been working on this for a good few hours now and this made my day (almost). In my case my windows partition is mounted on /windows/ and the output of "ls -l" shows that the group (the 4th column) that has access is ls -lĭrwxrwx- 1 root plugdev 8192 jan 14 00:16 this helps! :) If none of this works then check the permissions of your mounted media using "ls -l". Some may consider this a bit risky since plex would be able to do almost anything that your user (in my case "jualin") can do. If for some reason that doesn't work then you might need to add plex to your own user group. Restart your computer and try to access the mounted media with plex media manager. Which should display something like: Plex: Plex plugdev In my case my Windows partition is mounted on /windows/ and the output of "ls -l" shows that the group (the 4th column) that has access is ls -lĭrwxrwx- 1 root plugdev 8192 Jan 14 00:16 this helps! :)
Restart your computer and try to access the mounted media with Plex Media Manager. Which should display something like: plex: plex plugdev To check that the "plex" user belongs to that group we can issue the following command: As others have mentioned in other forums the problem is that the "plex" user doesn't belong to the "plugdev" group which is the only group that has access to the mounted devices.Īll you need to do is to add plex to that group by using gpasswd I added the second hard drive to my fstab file, and that fixed the problem. This made me think that maybe that was causing plex a problem. What I realized was, the drive wasn't mounting automatically, and would only mount when i went to access it. This was a left over drive from an old windows install.
Install plex media server linux terminal headless tv#
I had a separate hard drive that stores all my movies and tv shows. I'm not sure you have the same problem as me.
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