IOCAGE can see shared folders and files, but PLEX shows empty libraries

[Marc Locchi]

I just installed 11.2 from 9.x and Iam having trouble with Plex seeing my media files.

I followed the instructions here to set up Windows shares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxggaE935PM. This all works OK and I can access from windows the shares, write to them.

After installing plex, I created the following IOCAGE mount points (as read only):

Code:

/mnt/LDATA/media/movies
/mnt/LDATA/iocage/jails/plex/root/media/movies

/mnt/LDATA/media/photos
/mnt/LDATA/iocage/jails/plex/root/media/photos

/mnt/LDATA/media/kids-movies
/mnt/LDATA/iocage/jails/plex/root/media/kids-movies

/mnt/LDATA/media/tv-shows
/mnt/LDATA/iocage/jails/plex/root/media/tv-shows

/mnt/LDATA/media/videos
/mnt/LDATA/iocage/jails/plex/root/media/videos

After doing this and restarting the plug in, I can access the IOCAGE shell and see the folders and files in the jail's media folder.

Code:

root@plex:~ # cd ..
root@plex:/ # cd media
root@plex:/media # cd videos
root@plex:/media/videos # ls -la
total 235
drwxrwxr-x+  8 nobody  1000	  10 Nov 21 02:23 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root	wheel	  7 Nov 21 12:02 ..
-rwxrwxr-x+  1 nobody  1000	   0 Nov 20 20:04 .windows
drwxrwxr-x+  2 1000	1000	   6 Nov 21 02:23 Crane Dance (2013)
drwxrwxr-x+  2 1000	1000	   7 Nov 21 02:23 Crane Dance (2014)
drwxrwxr-x+ 13 1000	1000	  13 Nov 21 01:28 Himalayas (2018)
drwxrwxr-x+  2 1000	1000	  30 Nov 21 01:39 Mia - Maddie & McKenzie (20180930)
drwxrwxr-x+  3 1000	1000	   3 Nov 21 01:39 Rides
-rwxrwxr-x+  1 1000	1000   23552 Sep  1  2014 Thumbs.db
drwxrwxr-x+  2 1000	1000	 243 Nov 21 02:22 Videos

But in the management interface for plex, as I manually add the libraries as:

Code:

//Plex Media Server/media/movies
//Plex Media Server/media/kids-movies
//Plex Media Server/media/videos
//Plex Media Server/media/photos
//Plex Media Server/media/tv-shows

These all add OK but the library is shown as empty.

What did I miss? Thanks!

 

[sretalla]

you don't need
//Plex Media Server
in front of those paths... just start with /media...