I recently moved from a single Windows server to a Linux server with the Media stored on a Windows share. I haven’t been able to get new media to update automatically. It does update if I use the Scan Library Files command in Plex Web, but not automatically. I’ve tried setting it to Update Automatically and to Update Periodically. Either way, it doesn’t add anything unless I manually tell it to Scan Library Files.
Is this a limitation to the way I’ve set it up or is there something wrong? Thanks,
Automatic detection does not work across network shares. The Linux iNotify kernel service, which is what tells PMS content has changed, is not communicated via CIFS, NFS, or AFP. it is strictly applicable to within the confines of local mounts.
This having been said, if you modify a file stored on a CIFS share while in Linux, PMS on Linux will see it because iNotify is watching the local mount point. It can’t see what’s done ‘behind the scenes’ on the file server side.
Does this help?
If you’re getting no content at all, this is likely a share permissions issue and should be further investigated that way. User plex needs Read access to the remote files however you decide to grant it.
