My tv shows are in a NAS. I’m currently mounting that NAS to a directory on my Linux server. Is there a way to configure Plex to access my files off the NAS via SMB or NFS, or do I have to mount the share to my local filesystem first?
You can use the UNC path, but you need to type it in manually. PMS will not show a UI for that.
@ChuckPa has a nice write up on how to do it
The thing is, I don’t want to mount the NAS. I want Plex to hit the NAS directly without the need for a mount point.
That means I need to use SMB/CIFS. Can I use NFS?
If you’re running PMS on Linux, yes, you should use NFS preferentially over CIFS.
I suspect you’ve got 2 bits of confusion. PMS is going to read/write/search file entries using system calls. It’s up to the operating system to steer those calls to the right subsystem, i.e. local (ext4/xfs/btrfs/etc,) or remote (NFS/CIFS.) That’s how anything I know of will utilize something like a library structure Secondly, *ix requires a directory (ideally, it should be completely empty,) as a target of a network filesystem mount request.
How would you expect PMS to access NAS contents without mounting the volumes first?
“Mounting” is how it works on Linux.
Regular Linux cannot work directly with network file share addresses, like the Windows file explorer can do with UNC paths (\\servername\sharename\foldername).
You can’t “Hit the NAS” the way you’re thinking.
Linux requires “mounts”. Windows requires “Mapping” (mounting). This is how it’s done.
Windows does have the extensibility of UNC but not LInux.
When in Rome … 
Oh. I learned something new.
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