Mapping network drive

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I have Plex server installed on QNAP.
I have movies folder that’s mapped to
I also have old WHS with many movies that I’m converting to MKV for Plex compatibility.
I tried adding folder: \server\Movies\SD Movies_MKV SD Movies as well as just: \server\Movies\ , but neither worked.
I can’t navigate to it from the “Add folders” menus because all I see is the QNAP’s folder structure.

How can I add seperate network driver (WHS server in this case) to Plex so that it can scan the driver and add the mkv movies I’m converting?

There are now several movies in the folder in question so it’s not like the space is empty and therefore nothing to display.

Thanks,
Mario

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You cannot add folders this way.

On Linux, \ is not a directory separator. / is the Linux directory separator.

what you typed was interpreted as serverMoviesSD Movies_MKV :slight_smile:

Because of the difference between Linux and Windows, you must do it differently.

  1. Use File Station to permanently mount the SMB share.
  2. Once mounted, open a SSH session (use putty) to go to the command line
  3. type df and see where it was actually mounted.
  4. Use the ‘mount point’ (right most column) as what you look for in the Plex “Add Folder” gui.