Media Library access - Possible permissions issue on Raspbian 64 (Deb)

Server Version#: 1.26.2.5797
Player Version#: n/a
New setup after on a RPi 4B 8GB…
TF disk is 256GB if that matter - external drive is a Samsung EVO 1TB ssd…

So I created a new PMS for a NASPi project, and I’m having issues with adding the media libraries…

I have another PMS on Win10, and Another on MacOS/Intel to compare behaviour to…

So the Rpi is headless… access is through SSH. I followed the Linux install instructions.

The external drive is set up in fstab to automount on boot and is mounted to /media/pi/PLEX/

I can access the folder in it fine from the OS.

Permissions on the PLEX folder look like this:
pi@plexpi:/media/pi $ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-x—+ 3 pi pi 4096 Jun 9 17:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 9 17:20 …
drwxr-xr-x 5 plex plex 4096 Jun 9 15:20 PLEX
pi@plexpi:/media/pi $

There are a few folders under there with inherited permissions for movies.

When I go into the web gui to add a library to the server, and select BROWSE to select the folder, it doesn’t seem to see the PLEX folder…
Screenshot 2022-06-10 103431

If I manually type in the full path to the media folder ("/media/pi/PLEX/MOVIES") it doesn’t pick up any media on that folder, but the web gui dialog will accept that path…

I’m not sure how to verify that the PMS server is running under the ‘plex’ id to verify it has permissions to view the folder… default id is ‘pi’.

Any thoughts?

Any thoughts?

Ok, quick update - I looked at processes… PMS is running under ‘plex’ id

pi@plexpi:/media/pi/PLEX/Torrents/Completed $ ps -U plex -u plex u
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
plex 73454 0.4 0.6 99092 49136 ? Ssl Jun09 3:52 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server
plex 73574 0.0 0.5 64720 43216 ? SNl Jun09 0:49 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /usr/lib/plexmedias
plex 73655 0.1 0.1 46104 11268 ? Sl Jun09 1:27 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service /usr/lib/
plex 73701 0.0 0.4 56676 35128 ? Sl Jun09 0:36 Plex Plug-in [tv.plex.agents.music] /usr/lib/plexmedi
plex 73703 0.0 0.4 54880 34000 ? Sl Jun09 0:35 Plex Plug-in [tv.plex.agents.series] /usr/lib/plexmed
plex 74845 0.0 0.4 55264 33800 ? Sl Jun09 0:35 Plex Plug-in [org.musicbrainz.agents.music] /usr/lib/
pi@plexpi:/media/pi/PLEX/Torrents/Completed $

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