How access file on my QNAP from PLEX plugin on FreeNAS

[Ray Milyard]

I have a QNAP NAS that has all my music and photos stored on it. How can I add folder from this NAS to PLEX inside FreeNAS?

I can see my Movies and TV Show folders that are on the FreeNAS box.

 

[adrianwi]

You'd need to create a mount to the QNAP from within the Plex jail, which I'm sure is possible but not from the FreeNAS GUI.

Can you not move your music and photos onto your FreeNAS box?

 

[Ray Milyard]

You'd need to create a mount to the QNAP from within the Plex jail, which I'm sure is possible but not from the FreeNAS GUI.

Can you not move your music and photos onto your FreeNAS box?

Thanks for info. Not sure how create mount inside jail. Not very FreeBSD knowledgeable.

I rather not move the files.

 

[adrianwi]

You'll need to use some Google Fu then, as it will depend on how you are sharing the files from the QNAP.

You'll probably need to add something into your /etc/fstab file using the mount command?

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mount-unmount.html

 

[Ray Milyard]

Well using this:

mount_smbfs -I 10.0.1.200 -W mshome "//admin@10.0.1.200/Multimedia" /mnt/qnap

After making a dir in mnt named qnap is seems to have worked. However now since plex is in a jail I still don't see the share,
When try command inside jail I get error:

mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted

 

[danb35]

However now since plex is in a jail I still don't see the share,

You should now be able to add storage to the jail through the GUI. The Source would be /mnt/qnap, and the destination would be wherever in the Plex jail you want it to appear (probably somewhere in /media).

 

[Ray Milyard]

You should now be able to add storage to the jail through the GUI. The Source would be /mnt/qnap, and the destination would be wherever in the Plex jail you want it to appear (probably somewhere in /media).

Tried that. Doesn't see the sub folders in Plex. Does at command line.

 

[danb35]

Doesn't see the sub folders in Plex.

No, you won't. Type in the path manually.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/help-with-plex-media-server-plugin.57401/