Archived My old reliable Windows Plex server is now an old reliable Linux Plex server (Linux)
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Archived My old reliable Windows Plex server is now an old reliable Linux Plex server (Linux)
submitted ago by ChillyHellion
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[–] RedSocks157 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Nice! The file permissions thing screwed me up for awhile when I put my Plex server on Linux, glad you figured it out quickly!
[–] ChillyHellion [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Thanks! Yeah, I had tried making the switch a few weeks ago when my original hard drive started going bad, but I got hung up because Plex couldn't see the HDD that has all of my media on it. I added the Plex user to my username group and everything, and I could see the drive/files in Nautilus, but I couldn't "add library" in Plex. The /v/FixMyLinux guys recommended checking my drive mounting settings because Linux sets permissions on NTFS drives at mount. To my relief, Fedora includes a GUI for checking the drive mount settings (gnome-disks) so I didn't need to manually edit fstab. Sure enough, my drives were being mounted with root as the owner, so Plex couldn't see them. I changed the settings to mount with myself as the owner (and my username group) which made Plex happy and fixed my permissions issue. That was pretty much the only big hurdle in the process for me, and now I've got my pretty much hands-off install chugging away and running Plex. I only interact with it to add media and run updates. And my capped internet sure appreciates Fedora's delta updates.