# \[Solved\] Plex stopped scanning NFS drive **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-linux\ **Created:** [February 15, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/solved-plex-stopped-scanning-nfs-drive/905704 "2025-02-15T16:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/solved-plex-stopped-scanning-nfs-drive/905704/4 "2025-02-16T03:01:20Z")
> [@leatherp](#): > > pmedia:/Multimedia /mnt/PMediaNFS nfs rsize=24576,wsize=24576,user,vers=4.0,hard,intr,rw 0 0 You are using `sec=sys` on the QNAP. Your mount > pmedia:/Multimedia /mnt/PMediaNFS nfs rsize=24576,wsize=24576,user,vers=4.0,hard,intr,rw 0 0 can be improved here. 1. With `sec=sys`, don’t use `user` 2. By default, Ubuntu & QNAP will negotiate the highest NFS level availble (4.2) 3. ‘defaults’ first establishes the baseline options which you then customize – otherwise you get only what you ask for. I recommend you use the same on Ubuntu (like I do) since you’re running linux\<-\>linux Feel free to adjust per your needs > 192.168.0.20:/vol/media /glock/media nfs defaults,sec=sys,rw,auto,async,rsize=4194304,wsize=4194304,x-systemd.after=network-online.target,nofail,bg 0 0 My machine boots really fast so I have systemd hold back on mounting until after the network adapter is safely up. I set ‘nofail,bg’ so it won’t interrupt boot if it can’t mount and then background the failed attempt if the NAS is off (shutdown) One concern I have is user permissions on the QNAP. I run with with everything as ‘admin’ This means Ubuntu, which mounts as root, gets uid 0 ↔ uid 0 access Ubuntu then determines whether or not I can see the media. I have this little shell script which will help you track down where access fails. If you run as `plex` then you can easily confirm if any path is blocked. > [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/22): > > Resolving permissions problems This How-To is about finding and resolving permission issues where PMS cannot read the file(s) due to a problem somewhere in the path. While the process is straight forward (perform ls -la for each directory in the pathname to the file), the process is time consuming and somewhat tedious. This HowTo provides a basic script which you can use (change from read-test to write-test if needed) and find where user plex loses its permission to get to a specific file. C… Additionally, you can simply launch a shell as UID=plex and then attempt to ‘cd’ your way into the remote mounted locations. (the ones you can’t see) --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/solved-plex-stopped-scanning-nfs-drive/905704)._