I have two NASs. The main Plex server is running on NAS 1. There is a music library on NAS 2. Both are running Plex. Can I add the music from the NAS 2 as a second music library to NAS 1? Or can I only add NAS 2 as a separate server? I would like to be able to search the content under one search field, without switching from one Plex server to the other.
This is possible, as long as you can ‘mount’ the network shares of NAS2 into the file system of NAS1.
Here are some FAQs covering that on Synology (Q23)
and on QNAP
There might be similar procedures for other NAS platforms.
Thank you. Unfortunately, when I try to mount the QNAP NAS, the Synology gives me the following error:
Failed to find the remote folder. Please check the name of the remote server and the remote folder and try again.
Strangely, the QNAP is otherwise accessible from within my network.
Are QNAPs not accessible via CIFS?
@arilanin said:
Are QNAPs not accessible via CIFS?
they are, because every Windows computer can access them. But a NAS very likely has by default not installed a CIFS client, only a CIFS server. So you either need to research how to enable/install a CIFS client onto your NAS or use a different means like NFS.
That is what I was struggling with. Synology (Main NAS) has a CIFS client but it wasn’t able to connect to QNAP via CIFS. Was able to connect via NFS (after I turned that on).
