I recently switched my server from windows 10 to Ubuntu 19.04 so I could take advantage of ZFS for storing my media. I generally download media on my main Windows 10 computer, then transfer it over to a network share on the server, but with Ubuntu I can’t seem to get the permissions of the share correct so that both my windows computer and my server (or specifically plex) have permissions to read/write/access the files.
Is there a guide available for setting this up? I seem to remember there being one in the past, but I can’t seem to find it anymore.
Thank you for your help, but this part is the part I actually understand.
With this setup though, plex doesn’t seem to have the correct permissions to add or delete files from the library. I’m trying to optimize a movie, and I’m getting the error “Converted files cannot be written to the server’s disk”. I need a way for plex to be able to access them too. I’ve tried adding plex to the group that has ownership of the folder, but it’s still not working.
On Linux, Plex runs as the plex user in the plex group. The plex user should be the owner of the directory and all files and sub-directories. If you want to open it up, you can setuid so that all users and groups have rwx rights on everything.
