Hello @ChuckPa, have you figured anything out about this? I’m trying to link Plex to the folders I’ve saved in nextcloud but Plex can’t see the folders.
A background on what I’ve done so far:
I installed Plex on Ubuntu 19.10: $ sudo snap install plexmediaserver --classic
‘$ groups plex’ returns:
groups: ‘plex’: no such user
Following [this guide, ](http://sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserversudo)the file ‘/etc/default/plexmediaserver’ only contains one line “sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserversudo”
Following this guide, I get the line “usermod: user ‘plex’ does not exist”
The line r"awk -F: ‘{ print $1}’ /etc/passwd" shows no plex user:
root
daemon
bin
sys
sync
games
man
lp
mail
news
uucp
proxy
www-data
backup
list
irc
gnats
nobody
systemd-timesync
systemd-network
systemd-resolve
messagebus
syslog
_apt
uuidd
tcpdump
landscape
pollinate
sshd
systemd-coredump
jpunsal
lxd
mysql
Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone else stumbles on this thread the next steps I had to take after installing Plex from plex.tv/downloads was to adjust the permissions of the folders I want to access. A good read to help understanding this is available here.
The to summarize this final step for me:
Use “ls -l” to determine what permissions the folders I want to access have.
Use “chmod 755 NewDirectory/” to change the directory to the required permissions for plex to see them.
Edit: While changing permissions worked for me temporally, nextcloud automatically changed the permissions of one of the folders to 770. So instead I added root to the same directory as plex using “sudo usermod -aG root plex”. This so far seems to have worked.
