I set up Plex DVR a few months ago, and it’s been working great. All of a sudden, it’s no longer recording, claiming ‘No Write Access to Destination’. My record location, like my movie share, is mounted to a NFS share on a Windows 2012R2 server via fstab. The only ‘change’ recently is I moved all my data from one volume to another on the Windows server, but all security was retained, the ‘new’ volume with the replicated data was moved to the drive letter of the original volume and the server rebooted so all shares picked up to the ‘new’ folders, and everything mounts fine.
Here’s the kicker: I can log into the Plex server (CentOS) with both Putty and Filezilla, and I can create files and directories in the location Plex DVR is supposed to be recording to, I can copy files to it with Filezilla, and they happily appear on my Windows server. I can delete previous recordings through Plex web. But try to record something? Nope. No Write Access.
Anyone have any bright ideas? I can’t figure out how I can create and delete files and folders through SSH/SFTP, I can delete previous recordings through the Plex web interface, but Plex ‘Cant write to it’ for recordings.
On the windows side, I have NFS set to allow R/W access to my plex servers IP with the following NFS settings:
In fstab, I have it mounting with the following:
MO-Plex:/TV /TV nfs sec=sys,intr,rw,vers=3,timeo=11,rsize=131072,auto,async,bg 0 0
That was gleaned off another poser I found in a google search who was doing something similar for Plex.
Previously, I had it mounting with the following:
MO-Plex:/TV TV nfs _netdev,defaults,user,auto,noatime,intr 0 0
I’m 99% sure that’s the exact line I had mounting it originally, but I was a bonehead and rather than commenting it out and adding the updated one below it, I replaced it :rolleyes:.
Edit: It looks like I got it. the linux folder permissions were set to some number for the owner and plex for the group. I set then using chown -R to plex:plex and the recording I just tried to start is recording.
That being said, if there’s anything I’m doing goofy or could do better (I’m far from a linux expert), I’m open to suggestion.
That guy was using cifs and you are using nfs but I would assume you can specify the uid somehow in fstab so that nexttime when you reboot it will mount that for you using plex as the owner instead of that number which you fixed by chown for now.
Let me dig around and see but you should be able to find that as well on google…
