Hello all, I’ve been reading this community from the outside for some time, and I finally decided to dip my toe into Linux a bit. I have an old PC I was using to run Plex through a Windows install, but this is now a Linux Mint Cinnamon machine.

I have Plex Media Server installed and running, however I am having a hell of a time getting it to see my external drive where my media is located.

Trying a bunch of research, it seems like it is a permissions issue that I cannot seem to shake. Plex is able to see the drive, though nothing in it. I’ve googled as much as I can, but none of the suggestions seem to help me. I’ve tried to run the command chown, though I get an operation not successful error in return.

ls -la never shows the plex user or group listed, and I’ve tried for about 2 hours trying various things and have had no success.

Additionally, the other two drives I have connected are stuck in read only as well.

Anything I may have overlooked?

  • ClemaX@lemm.ee
    2·
    6 months ago

    Mount the drive with the user or group as plex. See mount options uid and gid. You can also set precise permissions on the mount point (using options at mount time) to let plex access a subdirectory.

    • korny@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I like this guide! However, I keep running into an Operation not permitted error when attempting to change the ownership to the plex.plex group. I’ve run into this a few times and cannot seem to get around it.

      EDIT: Got it working, though still running into an operation not permitted error. Though, I unmounted and remounted the drives changing the uid to a new mount point. Plex is able to see the files now!

      Now to start messing with docker…

      EDIT 2: Short lived, changes revert after reboot and have to remount again with changes.