Are you sure? If the mounts are not available when PMS starts, they won’t be available later either. PMS must start after the mounts are available.
Edit - I take this back. Looks like it’s been changed so PMS will recheck the availability of mounted drives. So that’s not the issue.
Absolutely. I ended PMS through Task Manager and manually restarted it, after having made sure that I could access the drives through File Explorer.
If that’s not enough, please let me know.
Regards.
Can you take a screenshot of file explorer and from PMS?
I wonder.
if you copy this into notepad.exe and save it with a .reg file name extension, then double-click the file and allow it to import the changes into the Registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableAutomaticRestartSignOn"=dword:00000001
Then restart Windows.
(it might only be working with Pro and Server editions of Windows, though)
(this can be easily reverted, by changing 00000001 to 00000000)
Everything matches for me.
I’ll collect some screenshots of before and after, and post them after the upgrade, should it not be working.
Regards.
I’ve never run into where PMS couldn’t see the drives that Windows can.
Would you mind putting a few words to what this does? Will it keep the computer from automatically restarting, while a user is logged in?
My server is running windows 10 pro.
Regards.
By default, Windows will silently login the last user account and will also start most of the autostart items of this user. Which makes it so, that you will see your desktop immediately after you put in your password.
However, this will not execute the login script of the user (which is responsible for mounting the network drives). So Plex server might already getting silently started before the network drives have been mounted.
This is just restoring the login behaviour of earlier Windows versions, so it might take a few seconds before Windows is responsive after putting in the password.
Update:
It seems to have been fixed, since the last time I upgraded. Maybe the re-check that MovieFan.Plex mentioned, of mounted drives was implemented in-between the 1.22 and 1.24 versions.
I did however see, after having re-booted the server itself, that upon opening the Plex client, it for a second couldn’t show my own media, only free Plex hosted media was available. The application then “flickered” for a second and my own media showed up after that. As if it had to re-check for access to a mounted drive.
TL;DR: It works with 1.24 and I’m a happy camper.
Thanks for the patience and all your input.
Have a nice weekend.
I’m running into the same problem. Have restarted Plex, even after the server has been running for a few minutes. Running current version of PMS. I can see and access the drive letter from within Windows, but Plex doesn’t see the drive when it comes time to edit the library
This PMS is strictly for using a TV capture card, not my main media server.
Type it in directly into the top input field.
You might as well use the UNC path \\192.168.1.118 in your case
Welp, that seems to have done it, thanks! Was expecting a little more of a headache than that.
Thanks again!
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