Recently purchased a Synology DS1515 for media storage only. My PMS is running on an always on PC and is working fine.
I have setup the nas and created a volume. I then setup some shared folders on the NAS. I have now mapped them as a map network drive in Windows and they are showing fine and I have copied some test files to it.
When I go into PMS and try adding a new library, the network locations are not showing, only my drives within pc?
Did you give ‘everyone’ read permission on the Synology to that share? (often overlooked… even I forget too… no biggie if you did)
Remember, Plex runs under a different username. Synology uses Linux and by default Linux doesn’t let another user (plex) see your files unless explicit permission is given. (Control Panel - Shared Folders - select the share - Permissions tab). You can create Custom if you want or just take R/W. PMS never writes to any media. Everything it does is contained in its database.
Thanks, I will take a look, ive done something now that means I cannot even browse the NAS from windows, I dont have permissions… I will take a look and come back.
You always have FileStation via the DSM window but clearly it needs to look something like:
FYI: DSM love to ‘accidentally forget’ the permissions you assign to a share. It’s known to everyone but Synology (apparently) coughBScough
This is what you need to work with. Use mine as a guide but edit & apply for your use. Note I do not use ‘Guest’. I have Linux and ‘plex’ talks to ‘plex’ across the network. You probably need to enable Guest
I managed to get my shares working in windows again, windows had cached wrong credentials so I have to change that in windows control panel > user accounts > manage your credentials > windows credentials. So back to the problem at hand!
I am wondering, because my Nas is still checking volume parity (has been all night!) could that be effecting it?
Does anything look not right on this screen to you Chuckpa?
Apologies i missed the guest suggestion. I have now enabled to no success. Am I mounting it wrong. I use the My Computer > Map Network Drive > Choose Letter > Browse to Movies folder > Tick the connect using different credentials > Then when prompted after clicking finished > Login in with my read write account on synology. I see these synology mount settings (Last pic belowpic below) I haven’t touched them though.
Yeah the credentials are correct because I tried mounting it again, and typing password incorrect and it just keeps challenging you for user/pass. When I put the right on it finishes and the drive is accessible via my computer etc.
I just tried in plex typing in the path \HOMESTORE\Movies
Sorry Peter I am not following. I still dont see the network shares in plex unless I use the full path, is that correct? Is that how others do it? I was expecting to see Z:\Movies etc like I see C: and D: etc
Peter having read a bit more, is the correct method for adding mapped network drives in plex the full UNC path then? So me expecting to see Y:\ etc in Plex when adding a library was never going to happen?
When you added the UNC path in Plex, you did not specify any account name - correct? It just connected? My guess would be then that it connected with the guest account. When you tried mapping it you used a username, hence my statement that the UNC test most likely contained the solutions given by chuck - that you should go with the guest account. UNC paths are good, mapped network drives in Windows has their issues.
