Unable to map external hard drive and pull videos

[ChuckPa]

When things are in /media/YOUR_USERNAME, the automounter has already blocked access.

Here’s one way of mounting drives so you can access them and Plex can access them

Linux Tips

Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed …