Refuses to find media on NAS

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Hi Guys, not sure if you can help. Before i start i want to say im super novice at this stuff and dont know any Ubuntu / Linux.

I have two PI 4’s running. 1) Using open media vault as a NAS and the second running ubuntu and plex server.

I can acess the NAS folder called movies on my ubuntu and windows via the below addresses not an issue however if i use either addresses in plex media library it doesn’t find any media? Any ideas why not? The NAS has no password / username on it.

These are the addresses that work fine outside of Plex.

smb://local.nas/nas/Movies
smb://192.168.4.100/nas/Movies
//192.168.4.100/nas/Movies

Spent ages on this now and really dont have any other ideas. The drives even mounted in ubuntu and is showing / working fine. i cant work out how to browse to that within plex without manually typing the address in.

Server Version#: Latest
Player Version#: Latest

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Make sure to locally mount the NAS drives in the OS that’s running your Plex Media Server.
If your server is running on a Linux system you can check out the tips & tricks section about Linux (in particular w/ regards on how to mount it and ensure Plex actually has permission to see their content).
On Windows it’ll mostly be about mapping the drive to a drive letter.

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It’s mounted on the system so I can’t work it out. Annoying as it’s 99% done i just dunno how to make it see the files

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May I be of assistance ?

I see SMB being used.
Have you considered using NFS? It is supported and native to Linux.

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Hi I’ve enabled this now on the NAS. Any idea how I mount / access it or what the address is I need to put into Plex to make it find it?

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Yep.

Here is my How-To (in “Linux Tips”)

Adapt it to your need

I show how to grant yourself R/W while read for PMS & everything else.

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