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I have 2 machines connected over the internet via ZeroTier. One is running Linux and is sharing movies and TV shows via Samba shares and the other machine is using Win 11 Home.
My Linux box is using 1 gig symmetrical fiber and the other machine has a 300/300 connection.
What I’d like to do is have the Win 11 box on the other side of the country be able to see my Samba shares over ZeroTier and add them as a library.
From the Windows 11 machine, I can browse the ZeroTier IP of my Linux box and right click on the Samba shares and mount them as different drive letters. Once they are mapped, I can open the drive letters and see all the movies and TV shows and even open them with VLC and they play just fine, even 4K stuff with 60-100 meg bit rates.
The problem starts when I try to add these shares into Plex on the Win 11 machine. If add a drive letter that points to a few hundred TV shows or a few hundred movies, Plex can successfully add the library and serve the media up perfectly. If I try to add one of those mapped drive letters that contains thousands of movies or 500+ TV shows (rough estimates), Plex throws an error. Unfortunately, I didn’t write down the exact verbiage but it just seems to choke and won’t let me add the mapped drive letter (with TONS of movies) as a source.
I know I’m stretching the capabilities of Plex by trying this experiment but I’m just wondering if it’s possible to get this working or am I reaching some hard coded limit within Plex that if it can’t enumerate a library in X amount of time, it just gives up.
