# Sub share library had no media?

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [November 17, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sub-share-library-had-no-media/333236 "2018-11-17T09:16:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![mohbandy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@mohbandy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mohbandy)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sub-share-library-had-no-media/333236/1 "2018-11-17T09:16:10Z")

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I recent purchased the lifetime pass and am trying to get some form of Plex up and running for the first time! I was going to use a simple pi3 since I saw pms was supported. Got it installed and running and am now to the point I would like to connect my nas content.

I mounted the share on the pi and can cd to and navigate my content as the ‘pi’ user. My smb share dir structure looks roughly like media/videos/movies/. When I try to add the library through the plex web GUI I can interact with the media folder, but everything under media (videos, music, etc) is not enabled, like a permissions issue.

Does the share need to be writeable?  
What permissions are required? The user permissions of the mount are recursively the same for all dirs under media.

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**Author:** ![drmagoo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/drmagoo/32/13982_2.png) [@drmagoo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drmagoo)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sub-share-library-had-no-media/333236/2 "2018-11-17T10:19:09Z")

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Linux user `plex` needs read access, not `pi`.

> [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/4):
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> Mounting CIFS + SMB network shares for Plex use The basic checklist Prepare the NAS Create the CIFS/SMB credentials file for use in /etc/fstab Create a ‘mount point’ directory structure on your Linux machine which will be where all your media shares are grafted and made available for Plex use. Create an entry in /etc/fstab for each share you wish to mount. Mount and debug as needed A. Prepare the NAS. This is unique to each NAS. In general, you only need grant read permission. Should …

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**Author:** ![mohbandy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@mohbandy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mohbandy)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sub-share-library-had-no-media/333236/3 "2018-11-17T13:52:37Z")

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This did it for me, thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sub-share-library-had-no-media/333236/4 "2019-02-15T14:00:52Z")

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