Hi All,
I’ve been trying to solve this for a couple of weeks, rebuilt everything etc, so…
I remember something about this.
Scenario;
I had an ESXi old box running Plex, but it’s disk died so I lost it, and thought it was time for an upgrade.
I’ve just got a new ESXi server for plex, installed an unbuntu 18.4.2, VM, 20 GB ram, 4 vCPUs did a dist-update, so it’s the latest and clean.
It has two network cards in it, one subnet goes to the house and internet (193) the other goes to the file server (10). This is to create segmentation, something I needed. I want the plex server to be available to my house (193) and across the internet (10)
Don’t worry about the 193 network, I’m using it internally as a private network, the reasons I won’t bore you with.
I followed the guide here
when I go to <Server IP(193)>:32400/web, it redirects me to my plex pass account, I enter my PIn, the it cannot see any servers.
The Unbuntu server has no gui, so I’m connecting to it vis a windows machine on the same subnet. I remember something about the very first time you connect it only want to connect to local host. I had to change or do somethign to allow it to connect to another device on the same subnet. I just cant remember what.
sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver
gives
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-07-03 08:35:40 UTC; 48s ago
Main PID: 1216 (sh)
Tasks: 71 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/plexmediaserver.service
├─1216 /bin/sh -c PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_VENDOR="$(grep ^NAME= /etc/os-release | awk -F= "{prin
├─1402 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server
├─1704 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-158e5b199/F
├─1791 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex DLNA Server
├─1795 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Priv
└─1815 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.imdb] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-158e5b
Jul 03 08:35:40 plex systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server…
Jul 03 08:35:40 plex systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
Jul 03 08:35:59 plex Plex Tuner Serv[1795]: Plex Tuner Service: Critical: libusb_init failed
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The network is setup as so;
julianh@plex:~$ ifconfig
ens192: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 193.37.226.249 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 193.37.226.255
inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fea5:535 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
ether 00:50:56:a5:05:35 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 37330 bytes 68675822 (68.6 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 21563 bytes 1627292 (1.6 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
ens224: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.1.1.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255
inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fea5:e6db prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
ether 00:50:56:a5:e6:db txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 117 bytes 26497 (26.4 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 201 bytes 26827 (26.8 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 1001 bytes 314669 (314.6 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1001 bytes 314669 (314.6 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Server Version#:1.16.1.1291-158e5b199
Player Version#:?
I’ve mounted the SMB shares in the fstab, I see a problem coming, as the owner of them is root, a bodge wouldbe to chmod 777, but is there a better way?-But that’s after this problem
Any suggestions as to my next step?
Thanks
Julian
