To start off, I'm brand new to Linux. Some friends told me about software freedom and sold me. I'm coming over from a successful plex server running on a Windows 7 machine.
I have installed the newest pleX Media Server from the website (opened in the Software Center). pleX opens up in my browser (as normal).
When I click the "+" to add a library, click on "Movies", click on "Add Folders", click on "Browse for Media Folder", I can see all three drives that contain my media (on the left side), but no folders on the right.
All three drives are NTFS. Two are external drives named:
* "1TB"
* "2TB"
And the third is an internal drive named "3TB".
It also shows the same way if I navigate to their location at "/media/user/1TB" or "/media/user/2TB" or"/media/user/3TB"
I have followed the instructions in Linux Permissions Guide. As you can see below, I think I did it correctly. My output for ls -al in "/media/user" is
user@user-computer:/media/user$ ls -al
total 84
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 user plugdev 4096 Oct 22 03:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 22 03:52 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 plex plex 65536 Oct 21 05:18 1TB
drwxr-xr-x 1 plex plex 8192 Oct 20 03:04 2TB
drwxr-xr-x 2 plex plex 4096 Oct 22 03:14 3TB
I also followed the Mounting NTFS Drives on Linux guide.
I got my UUIDs for the three drives and edited my fstab, as you can see below:
#/etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
#device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
#that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=AAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAA-AAAAAAAA /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0
UUID=BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB /media/user/1TB ntfs-3g permissions,auto 0 0
UUID=CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC /media/user/2TB ntfs-3g permissions,auto 0 0
UUID=DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD /media/user/3TB ntfs-3g permissions,auto 0 0
I replaced the UUIDs with A, B, C, and D.
Why?
Because I don’t know enough about them to know if its important to block these from the public. LOL
I also, saw some advice about changing the /etc/default/plexmediaserver file.
I tried changing the line:
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=plex
and also, when that didn't work, back to
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=user
Lastly, one thing I noticed. If I right-click on the folder /media/user/1TB (or any others, 2TB, 3TB), and I click on the permissions tab, the owner is blank and the group is "plex".
When I became root, by running "sudo nautlus", it shows "plex" as the owner and "plex" as the group.
To summarize my issue:
I cannot get pleX to "see" my folders when attempting to add them through the web browser GUI.
I hope this is enough information to help me along my way. Please, if you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them.