Share Airport Time Capsule (NAS) Drive to library in Plex Server - need help

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Hello
I’m running the Plex media server on my Raspberry Pi 3.
I’ve created a new media library on my Airport Time Capsule.
I would like to use this library as my main media location.
How can I had this library to the Plex media server? when I’m going to “add library” I don’t see my NAS there.
Thanks

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Doesn’t the Airport use SMB protocol?
Did you mount your shares and give user plex permission to read them in that mount?

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yes - it uses SMB protocol
didn’t mount the drive … :#
can you explain to me how to mount the drive and give plex permission to read from it?

thanks :smile:

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As I pointed out above, please see the Linux Tips section at the top of this forum https://forums.plex.tv/categories/linux-tips where I expressly show how to mount your network shares.

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Thanks - I have tried to look at this forums and other forums but still nothing.
Let me please explain what exactly I did and to where I got till now:

  1. My Airport Time Machine is connected to my network in the regular way. I can see the time capsule in my MacBook pro and it contains 1 folder called “Data” , inside there’s my 1 file backup and another folder where I store all my media files:

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I found in some raspberry Pi forums the things I need to run in the RP3 Terminal:

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/timecapsule
echo “//192.168.1.21/Date /mnt/timecapsule cifs user=My User Name,pass= Password,rw,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0” >> /etc/fstab

now , when i go to the plex server page to add media I see this structure:

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I think that the folder I see called “timecapsule” it’s the one I have created in the command “mkdir /mnt/timecapsule” and not the actual HDD I have in my time capsule.

I hope that with this long post with the photos I can finish this installation process

please help if you can
I’m new to all the RP3 stuff

thanks in advance

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It looks like you’re having permission problems. User plex must have permission to read . It doesn’t look like your mount options in /etc/fstab accounted for this. You’re using your username, and not specifying a group (which is one way to let group plex) have access. I am suggesting your username have read/write but group plex have read permission through group permissions