Plex setup help - not seeing my local media

Hi All,

using OMV5 for a while not, really good experience.

I'm new to Portainer and Plex and I am trying to get Plex setup right. I have installed it thusly aside from fixing the noexec thing (I don't know what it is).

I am able to access my plex web interface and have signed into my Plex Account but get this message:

I already had media folders, so I made a Config folder as required and it has been populated with files so this is working.

These paths look good to me, I got them from within Portainer. So is the issue the sharing setup (permission or what have you), is it a signing into plex thing. Is there some config I am missing?

Any help appreciated.

I still can't figure this one out, any help appreciated.

Hi, the server is local, it's installed on my NAS which is Running OMV5 and Portainter. I can then access it through my browser on my desktop machine which is on the same ip range 192.168.1.XXX http://kablamo.local:32400/web…l#!/get-plex-media-server with this url being the one that says I have no local media.

The config folder is working fine, and this article suggests any directory name is fine (in fact they are very similar to mine just on Windows), it sounds like it just needs to be pointed to correctly. Hence adding this config.

I was leaning towards a permission or configuration thing, but I guess I could try making shares with new names as test.

I created a new share and called it movies then adding a single file to it (a random MCU movie) and then restarted plex. Still the same result.

I'm stuck for what to try next. Is it permissions, have I missed something in config, I really don't know at this point.

The files are owned by 'nobody' and group 'users' in the filesystem. I have tried using their UID 65534 which did nothing. The main ordinary user I have is 'Noki' PID 1000 which I have also tried, this is the user I use for normal file sharing on the NAS and have no problem reading and writing to files. I have tried many combinations of PID and GID and the PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER (trying nobody, noki, and my plex account email here).

The whole directory 'media' is owned by 'nobody'. Both from within OMV and when I ssh to check the file system, all files and all folders in that directory.

Yes, I realise that, and I have confirmed that all sub-directories and files are under the correct ownership via ssh. Since Plex is the only thing not working, SMB and CIFs and ReadyDLNA setups all work fine, I assume it is a Plex config problem, hence posting the screengrab from there.

-rwxrwxr--+  1 nobody users 1546029364 Jan  5  2020 'The.Road.To.El.Dorado(2000).mp4'
-rwxrwxr--+  1 nobody users  294851214 Jan  5  2020 'The.Rock(1996).mp4'
-rwxrwxr--+  1 nobody users  963994512 Jan  5  2020 'The.Rocketeer(1991).mp4'
-rwxrwxr--+  1 nobody users  532207070 Jan  5  2020 'The.Shawshank.Redemption(1994).mp4'
-rwxrwxr--+  1 nobody users  732482688 Jan  5  2020 'The.Theory.of.Everything(2014).mp4'
-rwxrwxr--+  1 nobody users  501466853 Jan  5  2020 'The.Thing(1982).mp4'

Thanks for helping with this issue by the way, it is appreciated. I have been going through google searches trying to find a response but not seeing anyone with my issue or hint of what to try next. I've tried brute forcing it by changing these values around to see what sticks. So far nothing.

I can assure you I have checked them, but here for the sake of thoroughness.

drwxr-sr-x  9 root users   4096 Sep 20 13:46 dev-disk-by-label-BOOM
===> next dir
drwxrwsr--+  4 nobody users  4096 Sep 19 22:23 Media
===> next dir
drwxrwsr--+ 86 nobody users 4096 Jan  5  2020 Music
drwxrwsr--+  4 nobody users 4096 Jan 13  2020 Video
===> inside 'Video'
drwxrwsr--+ 13 nobody users  20480 Sep 19 22:06  Films
drwxrwsr--+  8 nobody users   4096 Jan  5  2020 'TV Shows'
===> 'Films' content posted previously.

Now the 'Disk' is owned by root, which seems correct to me so I don't see a need to mess with it.

Removed the quote, I got it after I posted. Yeah I assume it's not just me, but I can't find reference to my issue anywhere else. But rest assured I am looking.

I changed it so that 'Noki' (PUID 1000) owns all files and directories in 'Media' down, no change in Plex.

drwxrwsr--+  4 Noki   users  4096 Sep 20 16:38 Media
>>>
drwxrwsr--+ 86 Noki users 4096 Jan  5  2020 Music
drwxrwsr--+  4 Noki users 4096 Sep 20 16:38 Video
>>>
drwxrwsr--+ 13 Noki users  20480 Sep 19 22:06  Films
drwxrwsr--+  8 Noki users   4096 Jan  5  2020 'TV Shows'
>>>
-rwxrwxr--+  1 Noki users  283824530 Jan  5  2020 'Tinker.Tailor.Soldier.Spy(2011).mp4'
-rwxrwxr--+  1 Noki users 1505495310 Jan  5  2020 'Tombstone(1993).mp4'
-rwxrwxr--+  1 Noki users  479153753 Jan  5  2020 'Top.Secret(1984).mp4'
-rwxrwxr--+  1 Noki users  734395412 Jan  5  2020 'Total.Recall(1990).mp4'

I can get a 'No Soup for you' message when I log out and back in, so it's definitely an access/permission issue.