New jailed Plex install

[VulcanRidr]

I'm having an issue with my jailed plex server on my TrueNAS 13.0u2 NAS, and I hope that some kind soul will point out what I missed. I had it working for several years, using the FreeNAS plugin within Free/TrueNAS, and while Plex was working, managing the jail via ansible did not. So I tried building a basejail through the web interface, doing my standard configuration on it through ansible, then installing plexmediaserver.

My media is on the NAS in /mnt/NX80101/media/{music,pictures,video/Movies,video/TV_Shows}. So I went into Jails -> mount points, and connected /mnt/NX80101/media to /mnt/NX80101/iocage/jails/bashir/root/usr/local/plexdata/Plex. I originally tried using /mnt/NX80101/iocage/jails/bashir/root/mnt, because that is where I connected it in the previous install. I can see it from the command line in the jail:

[root@bashir Plex]# ls -1 /usr/local/plexdata/Plex
music
pictures
video

However, when I go into the Plex webUI, and go into and drill down to /usr/local/plexdata/Plex, there is nothing under that directory:

so plex says that all of the libraries are empty, because it can't see any files.

What step did I miss in setting this up?

Thanks,
--vr

 

[Jurgen Segaert]

Does the plex user have read access to these folders?
Maybe provide the output of ls -l /usr/local/plexdata/Plex as opposed to ls -1 /usr/local/plexdata/Plex

 

[VulcanRidr]

Does the plex user have read access to these folders?
Maybe provide the output of ls -l /usr/local/plexdata/Plex as opposed to ls -1 /usr/local/plexdata/Plex

Hi Jurgen,

It has group read (and write) access. In the jail:

[root@bashir ~]# grep plex /etc/group
media:*:2000:plex
plex:*:972:

and on the NAS:

root@luna[~]# grep plex /etc/group
builtin_users:*:545:plex
plex:*:1000:
media_1:*:2000:storm,plex
media:*:8675309:storm,plex

Note that the media user on the NAS side was created after the media_1 (which was originally created as media). Not sure when/why group 8657309 was created. So here is the directory the directory listing:

find /usr/local/plexdata/Plex -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec ls -l {} \;
total 114
drwxrwx--- 24 storm 8675309 26 Jan 28 2022 music
drwxrwx--- 10 storm media 12 Jun 10 2021 pictures
drwxrwx--- 8 storm media 8 Sep 30 22:55 video
...

Do newer versions of plex require the target directories be owned by the plex user?

 

[VulcanRidr]

Do newer versions of plex require the target directories be owned by the plex user?

Apparently this is not the case. I was able to get the directories loaded. Not sure what combination of things did it, but my media is now displayed in plex. Thank you for your help.