Good day
I am struggling to make PMS see the movies on my external drives. When using Ubuntu file manner I access the external drives and the movies, but with PMS it sees the drives, but not the sub folders and does not list the movies on my plex server.
Any advice please
May want to check file permissions on external drive. If usb hard drive you/Plex may need permission to use folders on external drive.
Open Terminal
sudo chmod 777 ’path to drive’
examples would be:
sudo chmod 777 /dev/sdb1
sudo chmod 777 /media/username/Storage
Would give all users rights to drive. You can use DISK app in Ubuntu to find disk path.
Others may have found a better way. But this works for me. Also lets you move drive from Linux computer to Linux computer without issues. Also using Plex as username makes things easer.
Im sorry but . chmod 777 /dev/sdb1 is pointless. /dev is recreated at each boot.
I apologize for being slow to reply but I’ve been trying to get the Linux Tips reformatted and hyperlinks working correctly after moving to the new forum
The How-To needed here is:
Thanks ChuckPA :
I don’t use external drives myself but use auto mount and mount as on internal drives. Only external drives I use are for moving files about and need rights to all users. Share folders for all the rest.
Allen,
I’m glad it helped.
The reason the How-To exists is because of how Linux does security. By default, Linux prevents two users from seeing each other’s files. This means user plex can’t see your files (media) unless permission is given.
It’s further compounded by Gnome’s Nautilus mounting all devices under /media dynamically and exclusive to your username. By being exclusive, Plex can’t see your files even when you do give it permission to read them.
What I’ve done is moved your USB drives away from /media. The extra steps in the How-To handle the cases where USB drives change their /dev/sd? location or your internal drive locations move around. The How-To accounts for those use cases as well.
As extra tip to you: You might want to add user plex to your user group. It will then be able to read your files without further permission issues.
Thanx for all your help and suggestions.
I found a YouTube video that easily resolved the issue for me
Hope this will help someone else as well.
dewaldwessels
I struck on to this with internal drives for the ‘mount on boot’ that I needed. Linux Mint seems trouble free using this disk feature. I haven’t had a need to do an external USB hard drive yet. But the ‘You Tube’ video show just what I found to work for my need of mount on boot and same mount point every time. Sorry for mistaking your issue as a file permission problem. What I’ve found with Linux is once you know the right question to ask you already have the answer. Good researching.
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