Plex cant see my folders

  • Hi, bear with me I'm pretty new.... I'm able to get plex setup and running without issue. My problem comes when I want to add folders to my library. I have plex setup on a small hard drive that I have setup for plugins (plex is the only thing installed right now) and I have two other hard drives with media on them that I want to share with plex.


    The problem comes with when I add folders to my library. Plex can see the mounted drives but shows them as empty. I know they are not empty because when I reboot onto a ubuntu live CD all of my files are there. I'm sure this is a permission or user thing but I'm pretty much clueless.


    Thank you in advance for help!

  • I did have to install tree


    /media/
    ├── [drwx------ openmedi openmedi] 37d6cc44-77d0-47c5-8998-2dd2aa84425a
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Documents
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Games
    │ ├── [drwx------ root root ] lost+found
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Melisa
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Music
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Pictures
    │ ├── [drwxrwsrwx nobody nogroup ] Recorded TV
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Roberto
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Software
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Temp
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Temp Storage
    │ ├── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Videos
    │ └── [drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup ] Workouts
    ├── [drwx------ openmedi openmedi] 48d0e626-d11b-43bb-99f2-cfb42c6d6a2f
    │ ├── [drwxrwsrwx nobody nogroup ] Downloads
    │ └── [drwx------ root root ] lost+found
    ├── [drwx------ openmedi openmedi] 80b4b995-8d71-4dac-bb5d-ca190bfd29b2
    │ ├── [drwx------ root root ] lost+found
    │ └── [drwxrwsrwx nobody users ] Movies
    ├── [drwxr-xr-x root root ] 9494d1f8-1991-4508-9d79-232cea538601
    │ └── [drwx------ root root ] lost+found
    ├── [drwxr-xr-x root root ] 9706894e-6443-4b8e-bb6e-d3dc219ee71c
    │ └── [drwx------ root root ] lost+found
    ├── [lrwxrwxrwx root root ] cdrom -> cdrom0
    ├── [drwxr-xr-x root root ] cdrom0
    └── [drwx------ openmedi openmedi] ec9554aa-79af-4429-9139-3386abfe7464
    └── [drwx------ root root ] lost+found


    28 directories, 0 files


    The two folders I'd like to have plex see are "recorded TV" and "Movies". Thanks for your help!

  • I may have been mucking around with permissions having no clue what I was doing.... Does this look better at least for the first drive?



    /media/
    ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] 37d6cc44-77d0-47c5-8998-2dd2aa84425a
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Documents
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Games
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] lost+found
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Melisa
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Music
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Pictures
    │ ├── [drwxrwsr-x root users ] Recorded TV
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Roberto
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Software
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Temp
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Temp Storage
    │ ├── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Videos
    │ └── [drwxrwxr-x root users ] Workouts


    I set things to the defaults in this thread OMV General POSIX File System Permission Balance: chmod – chown – setgid - umask concepts

  • Oh, so much better... :) And you fixed it on your own... +1



    You should not share the root of the drive though...


    drwxrwxr-x root users ] 37d6cc44-77d0-47c5-8998-2dd2aa84425a


    Create a shared folder in the shared folder section then go to Samba and create the samba share.

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