Plex for Synology - No 'Plex' Folder shown in DSM

By default, the Plex share is hidden from File Station (Synology’s rules)

Go to Control Panel - Shared Folders
Edit the Plex share.
Add your username as R/W permission
Save the changes

If Server settings are unavailable, PMS is not recognizing you as the owner.

  1. Are you both on the same subnet?
  2. Is it and your browser both signed in as the same Plex.tv account ?

Adding a plug-in is easy to put into position however, PMS does not run as a privileged user on Synology.
After putting the files into position, you must SSH into the Synology as admin, sudo -su root to elevate to root privileges, and assign user plex as the owner of the files in those plug-in(s).

Presuming your Plex share is on /volume1 (default), you can use the following. If on another volume, please adjust accordingly.

chown -R plex:users "/volume1/ Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins"

Restart PMS and it will now find the plug-ins

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