WD my cloud home + Raspberry Pi 4 + PLEX

[raularellano420_googlemail_com]

Hello Forum,

A year ago I bough an 8TB WD My Cloud Home. It was a terrible decision because it has no accessibility options and it has been screeching for the last 2 weeks making thumbnails. It is also extremely slow and gets too warm in the summer.

So I decided to remove the 8TB HD and I bought a Rasperry Pi 4 , just finished installing PLEX media server.

Everything seems to be working, the drive mounts automatically but I dont seem to find the files from my former plexmedia server. I tried showing hidden files but still cant find anything.

[drmagoo]

USB drive:

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 …

Network share:

Linux Tips

Mounting CIFS + SMB network shares for Plex use The basic checklist Prepare the NAS Create the CIFS/SMB credentials file for use in /etc/fstab Create a ‘mount point’ directory structure on your Linux machine which will be where all your media shares are grafted and made available for Plex use. Create an entry in /etc/fstab for each share you wish to mount. Mount and debug as needed A. Prepare the NAS. This is unique to each NAS. In general, you only need grant read permission. Should …