Library scan not working

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Bigwheel - I already did that, I’m not sure why it’s still showing up as my email :confused: I changed it Thursday before I first posted.

If I decided to rebuild my server, how could I preserve my Plex customizations to bring onto the new build?

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@milkandmud said:
If I decided to rebuild my server, how could I preserve my Plex customizations to bring onto the new build?

Linux → Linux cloning is pretty easy.

The bulk of the work can be done with a tarball and a few temporary symlinks.

When you’re ready, I’ll help you through that with a custom procedure. In the interim, I’ve detailed a How-To in Linux Tips at the top of the Linux forum

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Thanks @BigWheel This was also my issue - very simple to fix when you know how - this was driving me crazy.

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I know this thread is a little old but I have a similar issue. I’m running Linux Mint, use greyhole for drive pooling 17 HDDs. I have the content mounted to /mnt/samba/(Movies, TV, Anime, etc.). I added plex to the sambashare user group, gave plex a samba password and am able to add Libraries to my plex account via the web. Plex is able to see the mounted samba shares, but not the folders within. When I try to scan the library it doesn’t find anything. Similar to milkandmud it seems the content permission is set the same.

russell@cabin:/mnt/samba$ ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 1 12:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 27 19:45 …
drwxrwx— 2 russell russell 0 Nov 28 06:45 Anime
drwxrwx— 2 russell russell 0 Nov 27 19:58 AudioBooks
drwxrwx— 2 russell russell 0 Nov 30 14:37 Movies
drwxrwx— 2 russell russell 0 Nov 30 19:35 TV

I didn’t see @milkandmud mention being able to change these permissions, but was just using the wrong Library scanner. I have my Movies library set to use The Movie DB scanner but scanning still doesn’t work. I tried using the Plex Movie Agent too, but had the same (lack of) results.

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In case anyone needs help on this in the future, I fixed this by changing the permissions in the “mount_samba_locally” script provided by the greyhole developer from the hardcoded 660 to 775.