Playing viewing media from Synology to plex server

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you need to make sure plex has rights to view the directories

Plex Media Server security changes for Synology users

Community Announcement - Synology users - Security update. Server Version#: Plex Media Server 1.15.4.994 and above By popular customer request and to improve the safety of your media, we’ve made a small but visible change to what PMS can do on your NAS by itself. We have removed user plex from the administrators group. This was a holdover from DSM 5.2 when it was required for PMS to run properly on the NAS. Now, with DSM 6 and above, this is no longer required. By doing so we’ve lower…

Using Read-Only and Read-Write shares for Optimized media on Synology

How to use multiple (split) shares for optimized media This How-To is applicable to any Linux-based system. It is being demonstrated using both Synology and QNAP (does the CPU crunching) for expediency in creating the optimized files necessary. This having been stated, the only difference between performing this task on QNAP versus performing on Synology is the top level folder name. On QNAP, it is /share while on Synology it’s /volume1 for most users. Two parts will be demonstrated her…