Creating Plex Server on a Windows host and using a NAS for the file storage

[OttoKerner]

Part 1

How to add files on a NAS to a Plex library on Windows

If you have installed Plex Media Server on your Windows computer, you add shares on your NAS this way: Surf to the media on your NAS using the Windows file explorer: [UNC_path] click into the address bar of file explorer once and press CTRL+C to copy the so-called ‘UNC path’ into the Windows clipboard. Then switch into Plex Web and create a new library. (or edit an existing one) On the ‘Add Folder…’ tab, click on ‘Browse for Media Folder’ in the resulting window, delete everything from th…

Part2

I cannot access some of my library files on my external hard drive

Whenever you have to access file shares, don’t rely on Windows storing the access credentials for that file share. It is not reliable. What you should do: Create a user account on the file server/NAS which uses identical username and password as the Plex server. This will always give immediate access, in my experience.