Synology DS718+ - How to mount Google Drive

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Hi - I am wondering how I can mount Dropbox or Google Drive to Synology Server to “expand” my storage for Plex.

My current DS718+ is beginning to run low on space I have 2.2 TB of 2.5 TB. I read in some areas that there is a way to mount a Google Drive or Dropbox onto your server for Plex, however unsure how to do this and would like some help.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to go about doing this?

I know there is a way to “link” a cloud drive on Plex but isn’t this only for Plex Cloud which will be discontinued?

I appreciate your help and guidance.

Plex with Synology Nas and GSuite
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The first step is to link it to the Syno. Once the Synology sees it at the DSM level, then PMS can see it.

If I remember correctly, they have a bunch of how-to’s in the Synology forum.

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What’s the first step of doing this? That thread is a little hard to follow, my apologies.

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As it says:

In order to get it to work I did have to add the synocommunity repo to the Synology Package Center in order to install sshfs, (as this was the easiest way I found to get the fuse libraries installed)

With that installed, just follow his walk through. This is also a learning experience because FUSE filesystems do have their problems and you’ll need to know how to manage & recover from minor faults on your own.

If you Google “SynoCommunity”, you’ll find it all starts to open up for you.

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Yeah, sorry that thread did get a little bit hard to follow. I started to do a write up here:

https://bitbucket.org/fusebit/plex-and-google-drive/wiki/Synology

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User Homes should not be required.

tbh I can’t quite remember why I set them up on mine.

The only reason I used them in this case was to put some of the programs and scripts in there, as people were putting stuff in the root dir, which would then get overwritten with DSM upgrades.
(and it made easier to edit the scripts if the directory is accessible from my mac)

As long as you make a directory within your raid volume(s) it should be fine.

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Thanks for creating this wiki. I am going through it now.

Question is SSHFS the same as SSLH?

I do not see SSHFS only SSLH.

I really appreciate your help.

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Nope it’s not the same. Not sure what SSLH is.

I think you might need to enable show beta packages, let me go and check mine.

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I enabled it. However, I do not see it.

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If I remember I think it can take a little while to show, this is what I see in mine

(you could try rebooting the nas and see if that helps)

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Ok, I am still waiting. Some BETA apps appears but not SSHFS. So will keep updated. Did I miss a step?

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No missed steps, it should just appear in the package center, really not sure why it is not.

Ahh, I just looked at the SSHFS packages available from the synocommunity website and I am afraid it looks like there may not a version that is compatible with the architecture of your particular NAS model

Looking at https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/wiki/Architecture-per-Synology-model

Yours is listed as an apollolake (x64) but there don’t seem to be any apollolake packages here: https://synocommunity.com/package/sshfs

So I am afraid you might be out of luck.

You might be able to do something with docker, but that’s outside my knowledge.
I did find this from a google search https://hub.docker.com/r/mumiehub/rclone-mount/

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That’s a shame. I will look into docker. Otherwise, I might need to just purchase larger Hard Drives. The pain will be moving the files naturally.

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Curiosity got the better of me :wink:

So I did try playing with that docker container, and managed to get it to work.

I have created another page with some info here

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Wow, I will have to look into what you posted.

You are the best. They should make you a team member lol.

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So, naturally https://hub.docker.com/r/mumiehub/rclone-mount/ comes first correct?

Then your instructions?

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Ha,

The first thing is to get rclone working on your NAS as per this page

(You need to do this so we have a working config file that we can pass to the container)

Then install that docker container into Docker on your NAS

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I followed your directions and, after a little bit of tweaking and some silly errors on my part, I was able to get it up and running!! You have no idea how awesome this is for me. I’m also running Synology 418play so I had to go the docker route.

Also, there may be a way to generate a config file when creating the container. I didn’t have to since I installed rclone already, but it was something I read while solving the errors I was having with docker, at first lol.

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Glad the directions helped and you got it working.

Yep, I think you may be able to generate a config when setting up the container, but like you, I already had rclone installed, and tbh that’s the easy bit :wink:

I was not sure that if you generate the config with the container then it may not be available for use on the nas, if so, you could not (easily) use the other rclone commands from the nas, such as rclone copy or rclone move.

It’s only mounting the drive that is more complicated. (and that’s only because Synology don’t provide an easy way to install fuse)

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