I have NETWORK MOUNTED drives on linux mint and am trying to have PLEX catalog the files from those mounted drives. But when I add the mounted drives as a library plex is not seeing any of the media on those drives. Can someone please provide me a step by step direction on how to get plex to see the media on those drives so it will catalog that media for me. Thank you
You can find the adequate instructions in the Linux tips & tricks section (specific to the network protocol used for those shares):
- NFS shares → Linux Tips - #5 by ChuckPa
- SMB/CIFS shares → Linux Tips - #4 by ChuckPa
The MOUNTED drives are FTP access only. do you know of any guides for those?
No guide at hand. I suppose the basic rules from the two other guides still apply – make sure the account used to run the Plex Media Server (default: plex) has full access to the mount.
The FTP server already has all the media on it so creating NEW folders etc is not a option as in the guide. The FTP acct is MOUNTED on my desktop where the PLEX server is running and the folder is accessable as far as i can tell. But still not showing any of the files
I can see the files when I click on the mounted drive in the folder on the desktop but plex does not see them for some reason.
Plex is not running under your user account – it’s using a separate one (plex by default)
I looked into my user accts on Linux Mint and it shows only my 1 main acct. Is this a hidden acct?
it’s a service account specific to run the PMS. Those accounts don’t match the users on your system (e.g. no plex folder in /home/)
So how do I give the permission to a folder that shows ROOT and does not allow me to edit it in Linux mint.
It’s about how the folder is mounted. For NFS/SMB shares that’s reflected in /etc/fstab and can be configured to determine which service/user accounts will have access to the media.
I don’t know how you mounted that FTP share of yours – generally, mounting network drives with GUI apps like Nautilus can cause some “misconfigurations” that result in problems with service accounts (as used by Plex).
Are you using curlftpfs? If so, are you specifying the “allow_other” mount option? If that doesn’t work by itself, it may also be necessary to use the “uid” and “gid” mount options as well; if so, use a group id of which user plex is a member.
yes using the CURLFTP how do i ALLOW OTHER option?
It depends on how you’re performing the mount. If you’re using it from the command line, you’d pass it as one of your options:
curlftpfs -o allow_other user:pass@x.x.x.x /mnt/ftpmountpoint
If you’re mounting via /etc/fstab, then include allow_other in your mount options there.
This is the response i get
Did you try enabling user_allow_other in /etc/fuse.conf? I tested on my server and that does allow the mount to succeed. I ran it from the command line, as my user, like this:
curlftpfs -o allow_other,user=username:password x.x.x.x /mnt/ftpfs/
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