tom80H
December 20, 2021, 3:14pm
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After running the Plex Media Server on your Synology NAS with DSM 7, you should be able to set/pick permissions for its standard user (PlexMediaServer
).
FAQ 19: Setting permissions to allow Plex access to media files
Before beginning, it’s important to remember one key point; Plex doesn’t have any special privileges on Synology except for being able to access the Video Transcoding acceleration hardware. It cannot read any of your files unless you expressly grant permission. This is a fundamental principle of Linux (which Synology uses for DSM)
Because of how Synology grants permission, access to files is broken into two different …