Fresh install of Plex within FreeNAS 11.2 jail (have tried both plug-in and manual install…currently running on manual install) that is running as a VM through ESXi 6.7.
I cannot for the life of me get any metadata, poster data or matching to work…period.
I can ping out from the jail console and Plex says that remote is gtg.
Directory access for the jail is solely owned by the plex user defined in sysrc.
Media Mounting access/ownership is dictated by AD DS with a unix user plex (same uid/gid etc as the jail).
I have all the same settings as my other Plex box (on a QNAP device, same network but not on the domain - that has no issues with meta/poster/matching).
I have flushed the Agent caches (deleted the folder and restarted Plex), completed the Plex dance, I’ve even placed the matching nfo files with the imdb addresses with a few movies.
IP6 is turned off everywhere I can find it.
When I try to match or fix match, nothing comes up in the search irregardless of which agent is picked.
Sorry, forgot to add hardware specs (I know someone will ask);
Dell R510 12-bay (v2) running ESXi 6.7.
FreeNAS 11.2 as a VM given 6 vCPU’s, 16Gb RAM, 8GB Mount on mirrored SSD’s on H700, PCI passthrough of H200 (IT mode) with 10x3TB (9+1 z2) & 2x4TB (mirrored), 1xNIC (on Intel Pro1000) & 1x vNIC (VM Network - TpLink 1Gbps)
Network topology:
Intel = vmx0 (FreeNAS main)
Tp/VM = vmx1 (only used in Plex jail within FreeNAS)
FreeNAS is part of my local domain, but the Plex jail is not
VNet didn’t want to work (even with bridge0 work-arounds), so that’s why I added the vmx1.
So how are you assigning vmx1 to the jail only? is that not still shared by the host?
Also you say
Why did it not work? can you add more details? and what do you mean by “even with bridge0 workarounds”? It should be as simple as enabling VNET on jail creation, but I’ve never done this on a vmware guest so maybe there’s some limitation.
Btw when u say “intel” u mean u are emulating the intel driver right? doesn’t vmware+freenas support virtio? (this shouldn’t matter for the problem but it may offer better performance)
I did eventually get it working by adding my DNS/AD-DC server IP to the “allow without auth” Network section. -Odd as I thought that was for playback only.
odd indeed, I use vnet but with pure FreeBSD jail.conf & netgrpah, even DHCP works… but I suppose you would need to dig in the freenas logs to figure why that fails.
As for the setting, no its not for playback, I man you would need access to the content to even attempt playback right?
That’s a network security settings to say “allow access with no auth at all form this networks” would should be careful when adding rules here, be sure its networks/machines you trust!
In this scenario the jail doesn’t have a loopback interface (its the host’s) so it creates certain limitation for several softwares including plex. With vnet you get a full virtual network stack, it should all work like it was a VPN (in what matters to network)
