I recently bought a Lenovo ThinkServer to set up as a Plex PMS also running RAID5 to store the media in. However, I cannot add any libraries. I can get as far as the RAID5 directory but then I cannot see anything past that. I’ve found other threads with the same problem and it appears as though it is a permissions problem between Linux and Plex. That said if I understand correctly the permissions are not that easy to set as they require command line programming changes that quite honestly are beyond my level of expertise. Can anyone help?
Greetin’s. Well yes…
~ Spend next week familiarizing yourself with the linux filesystem u got AND chmod/chown. Jez poke around the web looking at help articles on those 2 points.
~ If you just do a standard install of plex media server WITHOUT any diddling with it you should have something that just works… irregardless of the type of RAID (which is an architecture, not a filesystem).
~ Then come back here and lemme know the whatup u’ve learned and then you can get a better idea on how to setup PMS and what perhaps is hanging you up.
I’m debating aborting this project and getting a QNAP assuming it’s as easy to set up as a Synology PMS. The problem with my Synology is it’s limitations transcoding.
I own a TVS-1282-i7-32GB. You’ll find the UI a cross between windows and linux in that you have technical control exposed to you. This is double edged.
On QNAP, PMS runs as the root user. This is good and bad.
Pro: It will never have access permission restrictions to anything in the box
Con: It will never have access permission restrictions to anything in the box.
There is no sense of “permission denied” if you delete by accident so therefore, since a NAS is not a backup, have external backup somewhere.
Pro: You can configure just about anything.
Con: You might configure yourself into such a tight box you need redo it.
IN all cases, READ, READ, and read again. Then practice with test data.
That’s the one I was looking at… except I think the one I was looking at was the 64GB version.
I’m assuming then that the PMS on the QNAP will be roughly the same as the Synology (what I’m currently running).
I currently have 2 Synology’s, 1 primary and 1 as a backup. I’d have to decide if I want to switch over to QNAP entirely and get 2 of them or keep the synology’s.
Yes, They will be roughly the same except for the great boost in CPU power. I write the installers for both. Because of the Linux distro they use, they actually have the same binary image.
I have a DS1815+ (8x 6TB) which serves only as monthly backup now.
It seems Synology has, for reasons unknown to any of us, apparently stagnated their product line.
The last few models have been minimal refresh. e.g. Add a PCI-E card which should have been there.
They forgot to add the native 10GbE which should be there period.
They appear to use the cheapest components (tray price) even though those parts are 7+ years old. Again, clearly not innovating in any sense for the NAS world.
