Pretty damn good. Thanks for the help. My computer appreciates not being abused as well. LOL
When this is all done? Maybe treat it to a new keyboard? 
Now for the easy part. Now everything I showed in the other How-To is going to make perfect sense.
I will do it by hand the first time as verification. We will add it to /etc/fstab after it works
you have directory /nas
I will presume the name of your movies share is movies
sudo sh
mkdir /nas/movies
chmod 755 /nas /nas/movies
mount ip.addr.of.qnap:/movies /nas/movies
There should be no errors
Now look in /nas/movies (ls -la)
You should see the movie top directory
Please confirm or show me what you get
plex@Plex-Server:/nas$ sudo sh
[sudo] password for plex:
mkdir /nas/Movies
mkdir: cannot create directory ā/nas/Moviesā: File exists
chmod 755 /nas /nas/movies
chmod: cannot access ā/nas/moviesā: No such file or directory
chmod 755 /nas /nas/Movies
mount 192.168.1.2:/Movies /nas/Movies
I think it might have worked once I figured out that things were case sesitive.
yepā¦ linux is case sensitive. Thatās all you need remember.
The name Movies is not the same as movies
thatās why we tend to use lower case for everything. 
Does it work? Are you seeing the files on the NAS when you do a
ls -la /nas/Movies ?
Yes I do
If itās /nas/Movies, then hereās how it will look in /etc/fstab ( all lower case haha)
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
ignore the stuff printed on the console ā it does that
ip.addr.of.qnap:/Movies /nas/Movies nfs defaults,auto,rw,nofail,bg 0 0
There are no spaces between the options, only commas (defaults -> bg)
Save the file
Now letās make the full test:
- Unmount the existing manual mount
sudo umount /nas/Movies
- Perform the mount by specifying only the target directory (this uses /etc/fstab). There should be no errors. If any errors, show me. weāll find the typo
sudo mount /nas/Movies
- Again, if no errors, itās done.
- It will mount when the system boots but not fail to boot if the QNAP is down.
- Test it out by pointing Plex at /nas/Movies
Ok this is strange. Im using localhost connection to Plex but Im on the actual server. If I go in to the file explorer and go to /nas/Movies all the movies are in there. BUT if I search for the /nas/Movies directory when adding the library to Plex, it does not see it at all.
Show me what youāre seeing
You will need to go to the top of the file system, / on the left pane, with nas in the right pane.
You click nas on the right pane and it jumps to the left simultaneous with /nas now showing in the descriptor at the top of the Add Folder .
This is is where you scroll the right panel back up to the top.
You will see Movies listed. Click it.
The top now shows /nas/Movies (which you can just type in if you wanted)
The right pane will now show all the movie folders.
Click ADD
nas doesnt appear in the list. I have bin, boot, dev, etc, lib, lib64
So I think Im in the right place. it goes from mnt directly to opt. No NAS option. How do I reboot the Plex server software? Maybe that will help.
I think I misunderstood your reference a bit.
If you want to add use the local FileBrowser (Nautilus), itās easy:
Click āOther Locationsā
Click Computer
Click NAS
Click Movies (which opens it so you can see your movies)
(now for the trick - Make a bookmark )
This what you mean?
EDIT: back in the terminal window
cd /nas
ls -la
Copy/paste that output here for me please.
Made the mistake of rebooting the computer. For some reason today the computer is taking like forever to boot. It even takes a longer to get to the Lenovo boot splash screen. Im begin to think its having a stroke. Maybe tossing it earlier was not a bright Idea.
That might not have been the best way to treat it
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:36 ā¦
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:36 Anime
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:42 dvr
drwxrwxrwx 18 plex users 4096 Jun 12 20:16 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:42 music
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:42 photo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:36 TV
On this ubuntu system,
when you add a folder, you can just type it in.
Create a movie Library:
Add Folder:
/nas/Movies <-- type this in at the top.. type slowly
Add it.
okā¦ thatās not right
sudo sh
cd /
ls -la
Let me see that copy/paste please
total 2097268
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:36 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 23:09 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 3 23:10 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 28 2018 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4480 Aug 3 23:01 dev
drwxr-xr-x 124 root root 12288 Aug 3 23:10 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 28 2018 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jan 28 2018 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-15-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jan 28 2018 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-15-generic
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jan 28 2018 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 9 19:12 lib64
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 28 2018 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 9 19:12 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 9 19:12 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Aug 3 14:47 nas
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 9 19:12 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 289 root root 0 Aug 3 23:01 proc
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Aug 3 15:02 root
drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 1060 Aug 3 23:10 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Aug 3 21:52 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Aug 3 15:02 snap
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 9 19:12 srv
-rw------- 1 root root 2147483648 Jan 28 2018 swapfile
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Aug 3 23:01 sys
drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 4096 Aug 3 23:10 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 9 19:12 usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Feb 9 19:20 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jan 28 2018 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-15-generic
#
How is plex running on this machine?
Native app?
Docker?
Snap?
Downloaded thru the package manager, I think thats what you guys call it in the Linux world.
Now I understand. You got it from the Ubuntu store?
if so, thatās a snap package. It wonāt see the NAS.
This is easy to fix.
- Uninstall it.
- Go to plex.tv/downloads
- Linux
- X64 Ubuntu
- When done downloading, In the terminal window
cd ~/Downloads
ls *.deb <-- makes sure you see the plex package name there with **.deb** extension
Do you see just one .deb ?
if so: we can cheat else you need to type in the whole name (or use tab-key file completion)
sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver*.deb
Make sense?
