Plex server without access to mounted drive

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Hello.
i’m having a small problem configuring plex.
Basically I can’t add a mounted drive or any folders inside to the library.
The folders inside have the following permissions:

dbrenha@DELTA:~$ ls -la /mnt/ssd1tb/
total 32
drwx------ 5 dbrenha dbrenha  4096 set  6 16:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root    root     4096 set  6 15:52 ..
drwx------ 2 root    root    16384 set  6 15:51 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x 3 dbrenha dbrenha  4096 set  6 16:33 SteamLibrary
drwxr-xr-x 4 dbrenha dbrenha  4096 set  6 15:53 Video

They are the same as the stuff on my user folder and plex scans accesses them fine!
Can anyone help me?

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Is your Plex server unning under the user account dbrenha?
(it uses the user account plex and is member of the user group plex by default, AFAIK)

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it is running as its own user, but afaik it has permissions to read the files, in fact it does on anything on the user folder, but on the mounted drive, it doesn’t go beyond /mnt/ssd1tb

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Nevermind, I got it. It was the permissions on /mnt/ssd1tb not the ones inside, since it was created when mounted it didn’t have the standard permission set. to fix it I just used “sudo chmod 755 /mnt/ssd1tb”.
I was up for hours last night trying to figure this one out, only to get it as soon as I asked for help… :man_facepalming:

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