# Plex cannot read SMB or NFS mounted directory **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-linux\ **Created:** [December 3, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-read-smb-or-nfs-mounted-directory/861608 "2023-12-03T13:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adrianma46](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@adrianma46](https://forums.plex.tv/u/adrianma46)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-read-smb-or-nfs-mounted-directory/861608/1 "2023-12-03T13:58:56Z")
Server Version#: 1.32.7.7621 I’ve mounted my NAS media to my host machine (Ubuntu 16) running Umbrel to `~/umbrel/data/storage/downloads` folder since this is one of the locations mounted to the Umbrel container. Plex is able to see the root mounted folder but is unable to see the contents. I’ve tried both NAS and SMB mounts with permissions set to `0777` What can I do so Plex will be able to see my mounted folder? Update: When setting up transmission complete and incomplete folder to the mounted path it instead created a local filesystem path with the same directory structure instead of reading and writing from the mounted path. This local filesystem path is invisible to the host until I unmount. ---
**Author:** ![adrianma46](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@adrianma46](https://forums.plex.tv/u/adrianma46)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-read-smb-or-nfs-mounted-directory/861608/2 "2023-12-03T14:00:03Z")
For reference here is the fstab config for both NFS and SMB NFS: `192.168.5.160:/volume1/data /home/user/umbrel/data/storage/downloads/synology nfs nouser,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0` SMB: `//192.168.5.160/data /home/user/umbrel/data/storage/downloads/synology cifs rw,username=maurerbot,password=GasQKtBj&yUEJv.f4pZz,vers=2.0,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777` ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-read-smb-or-nfs-mounted-directory/861608/3 "2023-12-03T16:51:50Z")
Unless you also have Plex running as your username – Get the mount points OUT OF YOUR HOME DIRECTORY 🙂 Some reference reading for you > [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/5): > > Mounting NFS network shares for Plex use The basic checklist Prepare the NAS: Create a ‘mount point’ directory structure on your Linux machine which will be where all your media shares are grafted and made available for Plex use. Create an entry in /etc/fstab for each share you wish to mount. Mount and debug as needed A. Prepare the NAS. This is unique to each NAS. In general, you only need grant read permission. Should you desire Read/Write for yourself, we will allow for it On Lin… > [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/4): > > Mounting CIFS + SMB network shares for Plex use The basic checklist Prepare the NAS Create the CIFS/SMB credentials file for use in /etc/fstab Create a ‘mount point’ directory structure on your Linux machine which will be where all your media shares are grafted and made available for Plex use. Create an entry in /etc/fstab for each share you wish to mount. Mount and debug as needed A. Prepare the NAS. This is unique to each NAS. In general, you only need grant read permission. Should … Please observe for my machine , NFS from my NAS to my workstation: ```auto 192.168.0.20:/vol/media /glock/media nfs defaults,sec=sys,rw,auto,async,x-systemd.after=network-online.target,nofail,bg 0 0 ``` (I use the ‘network-online.target’ qualifier only because my network adapter is slow to start (thunderbolt 10 GbE adapter on a NUC8). Normal cases will not need this. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-read-smb-or-nfs-mounted-directory/861608/4 "2023-12-03T16:56:32Z")
Supplemental: You state Ubuntu 16 – Hope you realize that we no longer support Ubuntu 16 (LTS support ended April 2021) ---
**Author:** ![adrianma46](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@adrianma46](https://forums.plex.tv/u/adrianma46)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-read-smb-or-nfs-mounted-directory/861608/5 "2023-12-03T18:33:14Z")
Oops! I’m on 22 ---
**Author:** ![adrianma46](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@adrianma46](https://forums.plex.tv/u/adrianma46)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-read-smb-or-nfs-mounted-directory/861608/6 "2023-12-03T18:33:53Z")
I rebooted my host system and things seemed to work now. Not sure what changed because I rebooted several times before. I’m going to monitor the situation. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-read-smb-or-nfs-mounted-directory/861608/7 "2024-03-02T18:34:10Z")
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