Server Version#: 4.63.0 Player Version#: I’m having trouble adding directories from my harddrives that were formatted NTFS the drives are mounted properly in the file structure in the system but when it loads the media server, and i click on the browse option, only the root volume name appears, …

Thank you for your considerable patience. It took me several dozen tries, but it FINALLY started to sink in and I got it to work.

You read here? [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Tips & Tricks of the Linux trade. Below, you’ll find a collection of tips, tricks, and how-to’s to help make setting up, administrating, and using Plex Media Server on Linux a little easier. Reporti…

Yes, i read everything and i’m prettty sure the permissions are set, or i don’t think I’d be able to acess the drive at all because the only place it doesn’t show up in in the media server. of Course i could be wrong, i don’t understand a single thing that article refers to.

On Linux, just because your username can access something – does not guarantee – another username (plex) can. In fact, default linux security prevents the behavior. Would you mind showing me what you’ve done to get to where you’re at so I may review? with the drive unmounted, ls -laR /path…

Does it matter that the articles reference NAS drives, when technically that’s not what I’m using both are local drives in the same machine I went back and re-read everything and I don’t think i did anything correctly, because nothing mentioned is actually there… The first time around, I didn’t un…

It doesn’t matter if the drives are local or on the network ; the steps are the same. mkdir /mount/path make sure 755 permission is set for each directory in the mount path BEFORE you mount the drive/NAS folder. We then go through and make sure the directories and files are readable by ple…

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ChuckPa October 30, 2021, 4:39am 2

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Often overlooked – Did you set the permissions of the mount point directory prior to mounting?

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