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Troubles setting up Plex in fresh Linux Mint install. (self.linux)

submitted 9 months ago by korny to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you're starting out, just go right for Jellyfin. Plex keeps getting harder to manage over time. And run it in Docker if you can, it makes it much easier to manage when it doesn't scatter files across your filesystem.

But I wouldn't recommend using external drives for storage, due to the unreliability of the connection, and the weirdness in protocol translation between USB and ATA.

I would still check your mount options though.

[–] korny 2 points 9 months ago

I am very interested in Docker, but was more or less trying to get it working for now while I learn more about Docker. I have a lifetime purchase for plex, so I'll probably stay with this for the time being unless I really feel the need pulling me.

[–] fpslem 1 points 9 months ago

I still haven't had luck getting Jellyfin to run on my LMDE box, but I have to generally agree that I like Jellyfin much more than Plex right now. Plex gets worse with each update, making it harder to do the basic thing I got Plex for in the first place.