Simple question. How can have Plex on my WD PR4100 access my movies/content on another NAS that is on the same network?
Thanks!
I’m also curious about this. Thanks in advance.
Hi All
as far as I know, a Plex Media Server on one NAS cannot access content on another NAS.
But we could use DFS Distributed File System. The only thing I need to know is what/who the other NAS is.
On my part, I would need to talk to shares on a Synology DS410.
Hi @laurentbui & @lpr
Meanwhile, I did some screenshots what I would do to access shares on another NAS to make them available within Plex. Inside the Web UI of the My Cloud, click on Settings and then Network, scroll down to Windows Services". Here you find the “Share Aggregation” slider which enables the Linux-style DFS Distributed File Service environment
Enable it and “follow the instructions”. First question is the root folder name, means the first subolder below the network share name called “Share_Aggregation”. I am using DFS for the root, up to you to chose your own:
Use “Add Link” to point to the other NAS in your network, the one which stores the content you want Plex to access:
In my sample, I point to a My Cloud Mirror in my demo network and there to the “Public” Share:
Voilà, the link is established and ready to be used:
In the Windows file browser, the DFS aggregation looks like:
Now you can access content which is physically located on the other NAS by using your My Cloud folder tree 
BUT:
DFS is not Samba file sharing, it works different. The original location on My Cloud is /etc/dfsroot/“DFS” with an internal link ti external IP-Address and share, therefore not comparable to an internal path to a multimedia library.
So, I yet have no clue how to proceed with Plex to make Plex this DFS Link accessible.
Can anybody of the Plex Ninjas help and assist? @trumpy81, @ChuckPa?
Thanks guys. Since I don’t own a PR2100/4100 yet, it would be great if someone that runs PMS on it could test this.
Thanks for your time.
Hi All
this “Share Aggregation” is available on all the black My Clouds, e. g. EX2 Ultra, EX4100, DL2100, DL4100, PR2100 and PR4100. The white My Clouds (1-Bay My Cloud, My Cloud Mirror and My Cloud Mirror Gen.2) don’t have this feature.
@trumpy81: thanks fot the hint with the symlink! I’ll try this today and report here.
Hi @trumpy81 & All
I tried it. Created a folder /shares/test and “ln -s msdfs:192.168.0.73/Public /shares/test” creates the link.
But it creates an entry in test folder with “Public -> msdfs:192.168.0.73/Public” syntax.
Pointing within PMS to this folder /shares/test or even /shares/test/Public does not solve anything.
PMS is not able to spider to the dfs-linked share on the other NAS.
Funny thing: WIndows File Explorer opens this share and shows the dfs-linked content from the other NAS.
Therefore: I am lost, sorry.
Can you edit /etc/fstab on those units? If so, we could mount from there… but would an os update wipe everything each time?
I am utterly amazed that Plex and WD have not addressed this issue. If I knew this before buying my PR2100 I would have not bought it, nor bought Plex Pass. I now have 2 WD NASs (one old and one new) and I have more media than I can get on one of them. It blows me away that Plex can not see anything at all on my network from the PR2100. I love the Share Aggregation feature, but Plex can not see the link created. If Plex fixes that it will solve the issue. Right now it basically comes down to if the media is not on the PR2100 it can not be added to Plex. Wow! I would highly recommend anyone thinking about buying the PR2100 to run Plex to think twice and go a different route unless you can get all of your media on the one device and never plan on having enough to fill it.
I’m still trying to find a fix for this issue. Can anyone help please? I have a PR4100 and an ex4100 and i’m willing to try anything that anyone can come up as a fix. I’d love to use the PR4100 as my main server and have it transcode my files from my ex4100. Thanks in advance.
Just enable NFS on the other NAS and mount it on the PMS NAS.
Edit: I suspect you’re the same guy as in the link… nvm
Has anybody find a working solution to link one NAS drive to the NAS drive containing the Plex Server?
I have followed all the steps of [JoergAndreas], and I can see the files on the other NAS in Windows Explorer in the Share_Aggregation\DFS\ folder but when I set this up, Plex keeps coming there is no content. Below is the full path I used:
/etc/dfsroot/DFS/MirrorMovies
Any suggestions?
Hello,
Has someone solved this Issue?
Best regards
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