Hi Ninjas,
I’m after a bit of information regarding the plex folder and associated permissions.
The plex folder is found at \DISKSTATION\Plex
Can this folder be moved? Are there settings in plex where you can re-define the location?
Now, permissions. When I first installed plex I remember creating a username for plex and setting read/write permissions for this username. Where is this defined? Can I change the username, can I re-define the password?
And more generally, what does the folder do?
I took away read write permissions from the plex username and I didn’t get any errors? So I want an understandstanding as to what this folder does, why it needs read/write permissions, and how to edit this (as I can’t find any options in plex).
Thanks,
Kurt
The Plex ‘share’ can’t be renamed because Plex looks for your Library under /volume1 (the name all your disks are given by Synology when you load DSM) for ‘Plex’ (/volume1/Plex). This how it had to be implemented on Synology (their rules). The username cannot be changed because the user ‘plex’ needs it to run in the synology (or any linux) environment. The account cannot be logged into even if a password were assigned. It is a ‘runtime only’ service. It has a username to comply with how the linux security mechanisms work.
If you start changing permissions on the share ‘Plex’ you are very likely to cause Plex to fail to start / find your media. This will result in you uninstalling Plex; manually deleting the Plex share in Control Panel - Shared Folders; deleting user ‘plex’ in Users and starting all over.
If you look in the Plex share, you will find Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server
under that is all the data Plex gathers about your media and then uses to display for you in the GUI (Plex/web or app). Other data in that directory tells plex how to play your video & music for you.
I hope this helps?
That was a great response, thank you.
