How to map WD network drive to TrueNAS Scale Plex app

[Gti4life]

Hi Guys,
I recently installed TrueNAS scale and the Plex APP
How do I point the server to my media folder on my western digital ex2ultra ?

I tried mounting using Shell but I keep getting a permission denied error

I used the below commands

# mkdir /mnt/wdmedia

# mount -t cifs //192.168.0.220/media /mnt/wdmedia

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[kherr]

Put them on the TN box ??????

 

[Gti4life]

Put them on the TN box ??????

Hi kherr,
It's like 20tb
There has to be a way

 

[Gti4life]

anyone ?

 

[NugentS]

It'll be permissions - its always permissions
You probably need to add a username / password in fstab and a credentials file. Except that you almost certainly can't use fstab as thats likley to be replaced every boot.
Can you enable guest access on the WD? That MIGHT work
If the guest access works, then mount the share at boot time using an post-init script

 

[wildone81]

For some reason, this feels like approaching the problem backwards, as the WD EX2 Ultra already supports running Plex on it. What is the TrueNAS Scale system running on that would prevent you from just moving everything over? And since it looks like you can use the EX2 as an iSCSI target, why not use that to map things over?

 

[Gti4life]

For some reason, this feels like approaching the problem backwards, as the WD EX2 Ultra already supports running Plex on it. What is the TrueNAS Scale system running on that would prevent you from just moving everything over? And since it looks like you can use the EX2 as an iSCSI target, why not use that to map things over?

Hi Wildone8,

I am running scale on a PowerEdge R720xd , Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz with 96Gib ram.& currently with 20tb (12x 2tb drives)

Running plex on the WD was not a great experience

I am planning to eventually move everything over to Scale once I start replacing the 2tb drives with18tb’s

I am not familiar with the iSCSI target how would that work ?


Thanks

 

[wildone81]

That part I haven't figured out, WD has a document detailing how to set that side up as the target, but I myself am not as familiar with setting up the initiator side of the equation, I think I saw a JIRA ticket requesting the appropriate application being made available for setting up TrueNAS as the initiator.

 

[Gti4life]

It'll be permissions - its always permissions
You probably need to add a username / password in fstab and a credentials file. Except that you almost certainly can't use fstab as thats likley to be replaced every boot.
Can you enable guest access on the WD? That MIGHT work
If the guest access works, then mount the share at boot time using an post-init script

Hi NugnetS,
I do have public access enabled for that media share
I feel like the permission issue is with the /mnt/

 

[wildone81]

Hi NugnetS,
I do have public access enabled for that media share
I feel like the permission issue is with the /mnt/

It isn't going to be an issue with the TrueNAS /mnt side because it is already 755 owned by root, it is all on the WD EX2 side not accepting the connection. The following seems to be detailing what you want to accomplish:

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[Gti4life]

It isn't going to be an issue with the TrueNAS /mnt side because it is already 755 owned by root, it is all on the WD EX2 side not accepting the connection. The following seems to be detailing what you want to accomplish:

cifs, smb - Can't mount (permission denied) or navigate shared folder

I've recently bumped into this problem. I usually navigate through a local network shared folder from a Linux machine via smb (i.e. from file manger using smb: ). Now whenever I try to access the

askubuntu.com

Hi Guys,
Thank you for all the suggestions

I ended switching over to the Truecharts Plex app and I was able to add my wd storage as an NFS share

Now I just have to figure out how to migrate the metadata from my windows plex