Comments on: Plex Permissions in FreeNAS 11.3

By: Michael Dexter

Michael Dexter — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 01:38:43 +0000

In reply to Steve. ClamAV is likely not running as root. Try running ps -aux to see running processes and their users. You can also run ps -aux | grep clam to clean up the output some.

By: ConorB

ConorB — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 01:23:08 +0000

In reply to RayTwoDeeTwo. It's probably easier to just add multiple ACL's for each user. For this to work the system that accesses these needs to be able to look up group membership.

By: RayTwoDeeTwo

RayTwoDeeTwo — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:46:19 +0000

Can I also create a group called “media” and add users 972 (for Plex), 352 (for Radarr), 351 (for Sonarr) and 350 (for Sabnzbd) then theoretically add the group “media” to the ACL?

By: Alexey

Alexey — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:59:26 +0000

Hello. It is work. I don’t have a problem with “Movies” and “Other videos” library. But, a have a problem with “Serials”. What can i do?

By: gogo

gogo — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 20:59:30 +0000

Adding ‘movies’ library didn’t work but adding ‘other videos’ worked

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 03:16:31 +0000

How does this work for clamav? When I’m in that jail’s shell, it says I’m logged in as root which shows up as uid 0. When I add an ACL rule for user 0, it resolves to root, but doesn’t allow scanning in the dataset back inside the clamav jail. Any hints?

By: Joon Lee

Joon Lee — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:12:59 +0000

In reply to Jose. This may indicate something went wrong with the Plex Media Server installation. Assuming you installed via plugin, try restarting the plugin. If that does not work, try reinstalling the plugin entirely and watch out for any errors.

By: Jose

Jose — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:40:26 +0000

New Freenas 11.3 install and did the following: setup a pool, setup data sets, setup SMB shares, setup user, installed Plex (plexpass version) plugin, setup mount point, added ACLs for user to access SMB shares and 972 user to both SMB and dataset. I can access the SMB shares across my network. I can launch the Plex webpage but it doesn’t see the Plex media server…What am I missing?

By: Joon Lee

Joon Lee — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:27:48 +0000

In reply to rho3cwm.

You’re welcome! Glad we can help!
You can always refer to our user guide as well: https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/

By: rho3cwm

rho3cwm — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:00:47 +0000

Thank you so much for the clear explanation, the ACL permission issue with adding media files to the plex library had been driving me nuts. There are lots of other guides out there which suggest that you create new users, specific datasets etc on all sorts of versions of FreeNas and I was getting nowhere with them. Having used Windows for too long now I really do need basic ‘monkey see monkey do’ instructions to follow. The solution was simple in the end.