Thanks for putting this together
I don't suppose you could make alist of the steps to properly change it to use a differant user than was used to install plex?
Thanks for putting this together
I don't suppose you could make alist of the steps to properly change it to use a differant user than was used to install plex?
The info in post #4 should be sufficient.
When you install the service in the admin account, you give it the username you want to run the service in. All that is left is making sure that Plex Media Server does not run in the Admin Install Account whenever you do an install / upgrade / repair of Plex Media Server. So never leave 'Launch' ticked at the end of an install and remove the auto start registry key as stated in post #4
Is there any need to move data over?
I assume that plex stores some data about where the libraries are in the user profile (really should ether be in teh public folder or some other non-user specific location)
or does plex atleast do that as is?
Is there any need to move data over?
I assume that plex stores some data about where the libraries are in the user profile (really should ether be in teh public folder or some other non-user specific location)
or does plex atleast do that as is?
These questions are general Plex Media Server questions and it running a Service has no bearing
1. The media files (movies / home videos / music / photos / tv shows) need to be accessible to the new user account but do not have to be stored in the user's local area.
If you decide to move the media files or access them in a different way (eg switch from mapped drive to unc), then follow the instructions here:
2. If you have an existing Plex Media Server installation you want to migrate all the meta data collected and used by Plex Media Server and the database contents to a different account then have a look at this Support page
https://plexapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201370363-Moving-a-Database-from-one-Server-to-another
3. Whenever Plex Media Server starts for the first time in a user account, it will create the local data area if it does not exist - otherwise it will use the existing data
Ok, currently I have my media on my D drive (second vHD) just thinking about where plex stores info to know where to look for the media
thanks
Ok, currently I have my media on my D drive (second vHD) just thinking about where plex stores info to know where to look for the media
thanks
By default it saves it in the user app data folder. There is a setting to specify the location, this is kept in the registry, so you can modify it there too.
Personally, I moved that data folder location to a more generic location, (eg d:\plexdata) it gets very large and is full of tiny files so takes an age to copy/move. If you are on whs, the c:\ is quite a small partition, which is why I moved mine.
Ok, currently I have my media on my D drive (second vHD) just thinking about where plex stores info to know where to look for the media
thanks
There are two separate things:
1. Plex Media Server data
2. The actual Media files
The media files you add to library sections when you create the library sections
The Plex Media Server data is created and maintained by Plex Media Server
The default place (for windows 7 onwards) is:
c:\users\username\appdata\local\Plex Media Server
You can change this default by editing the field that defines it in Settings - but you have to be extremely careful as you risk losing all the meta data gathered by Plex Media Server. One of the 2 articles I linked for you in post #24 covers this
See Plex Media Server Settings for General (with Show Advanced Settings) - Field: The path where local application data is stored
Thanks
I'll move the app data to D:\Plex-AppData
by default on VM's I make the C drive is kinda small (50-60GB) and is aimed at only being used by the OS not by apps for storage.
of course if C drive size ever becomes and issue I can easily make it larger but would rather not. (really need to upgrade to a better iscsi unit as thats one point thats really slowing down my setup.)
Thank you!
Works great on Windows 8.1.
Just wanted to say thanks,
It's working on my WS2012R2,
Hi, cjmurph. Just wanted to suggest adding your zip files as releases on GitHub as an alternative/compliment to this pinned forum topic.
See here: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Thanks,
dc
Hi, cjmurph. Just wanted to suggest adding your zip files as releases on GitHub as an alternative/compliment to this pinned forum topic.
See here: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Thanks,
dc
Oh cool, I didn't know I could publish there. I'll check it out. Thanks.
Hi - no doubt I'm missing something obvious but when I try and install (in WHS2011) I enter the same account as PMS is installed in and it comes up with error 1001 (user account doesn't exist) although the user account definitely does exist. I've tried with another account but come across the same problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks - this will solve my problem when it works so much appreciated!
Alex
Hi - no doubt I'm missing something obvious but when I try and install (in WHS2011) I enter the same account as PMS is installed in and it comes up with error 1001 (user account doesn't exist) although the user account definitely does exist. I've tried with another account but come across the same problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks - this will solve my problem when it works so much appreciated!
Alex
normally it is a syntax issue
it should fullstop / slash / user name
.\username
Hi - no doubt I'm missing something obvious but when I try and install (in WHS2011) I enter the same account as PMS is installed in and it comes up with error 1001 (user account doesn't exist) although the user account definitely does exist. I've tried with another account but come across the same problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks - this will solve my problem when it works so much appreciated!
Alex
Copied and pasted from the OP.
If you are on a domain, the username is entered as domain\username.
If you aren't on a domain, the domain is the computer itself so replace the domain name with the computer name eg.
(mycomputersname\username or .\username)
From the sounds of it, it sounds like your trying to use your logon info?
Thanks - I did miss that, sorry!
All good!
A suggestion: Whenever an update is made to the Plex Service Release, a post ought to be added here to announce the release
This is necessary because editing post #1 does not get flagged to users and the only way to flag that a significant edit has been made is to add a post here
I just noticed for example that we are now on version 1.0.1
Yeah, I wasn’t sure if it would notify subscribers, but after I saw the new version download numbers start ticking over, I thought it must have.
Yeah, I wasn't sure if it would notify subscribers, but after I saw the new version download numbers start ticking over, I thought it must have.
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I am leaving the above script here - started to happen after windows update this morning. must be some new browser security setting in the update that affects all browsers !
The script gets pasted in when i do Quote reply in Google Chrome ! Will start googling for it but anyone with a quick answer would be welcome.
What I was going to say is that yes a post is needed here for new releases and that is how ljunkie does it in his RARflix Roku Channel thread.
Hi guys,
I found this entry after I did solve the service problem on my own before looking into the forums and I wanted to show you my own approach.
This I working for me now since 2 or 3 weeks. It did use this approach also earlier with other software on my Windows Home Server 2011.
There exists some software called "Non sucking service manager" which is exactly this :D
To create some service with this you simply have to start the exe file. Than some dialog pops up which asks you for the exe you want to use as service.
Select the exe file and give it a name.
After this some new service is shown in your list of services in windows.
There you should open the newly created service and go to the properties where you should select the user with which the service should be executed (for example the administration user or some specific user for plex).
With this configuration everything works fine for me without some other software or plugin.
I'm also running other things with this like "Eventghost" and the "Free Download Manager Web Service".
:)
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