Server Version#: 1.18.2.2041
Player Version#: ?? not really sure what to put here
Ok so I am in the process of moving my Plex server to a Ubuntu machine, after I got a new computer I decided to give this a go instead of purchasing another license for windows.
Windows sees the TV shows perfectly fine, and Plex sees them from my Windows server.
I did an exact copy, kept file paths, names, etc…
The Ubuntu plex server says there is no content under the directory. The Computer sees it fine, and can play the files but Plex does not…
First thing I tried was to rename the directories and files because I know thats the first thing everybody says to do after reading a few of these forums, if somebody could help me out I would really appreciate it.
Linux security is very strict.
Just because you see the files doesn’t mean user ‘plex’ can.
File permissions not allowing user ‘plex’ is a common problem.
The corrective action is to relax the default permissions on Linux for the media.
As example, assume the media is mounted at /movies and a /tv.
The commands to relax permissions , while keeping your username in control are:
find /movies /tv -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /movies /tv -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Directories are given permission to be read and traversed
Files are given permission to be read.
If you’re placing your media in your Linux home diretory, I strongly advise you make a new place for it now. Placing media in one’s home directory brings other complications.
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