Hi- I am running Lubuntu and Plex on a small SSD drive and I have an external USB drive with movies and music. Lubuntu mounts and I can access all the files on the external drive but Plex doesn’t see them when I try to add them to a library. I created a shortcut in the local lubuntu video and mus…

That is usually a permissions problem. Do you just plug it in and let Lubuntu mount the drive? If you do then the permissions will be set to your user to have access but not the plex user. Linux permissions are covered at https://support.plex.tv/articles/200288596-linux-permissions-guide/ Comments…

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Thank you both for the replies… Is there not a way to do it from the GUI? I do Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR and NEX-OS, Juniper Junos and Palo Alto CLI but Linux Command line is still foreign for me. Thanks again for the replies but that will take me a week to read and comprehend and I am hoping to …

No there is not. Linux has a very strict security model. No one user can see another users’s files without expressly granted permissions. Linux is not a ‘Learn in a day’ OS because it was originally created in the command line-only days and has evolved into a server-rooted OS (enterprise grade…

Here is the permissions for the USB HD. Music_Stream and Video_Stream are the only two that are needed. lin-plex@linplex:/media/lin-plex/Seagate_2_TB$ ls -al total 1176 drwxrwxrwx 1 lin-plex lin-plex 4096 Aug 6 07:25 . drwxr-x—+ 3 root root 4096 Aug 7 06:50 … drwxrwxrwx 1 l…

Yes, the default user for plex is called plex.

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Not accessing external USB HD

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