I just built and installed a freenas server for my home with the primary goal of it being a media server and backup device. As far as I can tell Freenas is working the way it is supposed to. I created a new ZFS volume using RaidZ1 (I have 3-3TB WD Red disks).
I created a new ZFS dataset for my media /mnt/Drives/Media and underneath those I have a folder structure which I did to keep my media organized /mnt/Drives/Media/Videos/Movies/Action and Adventure/Movie name/movie name.mp4. Videos is also a ZFS dataset. All of the folders underneath that were created via CIFS through Windows.
I've set permissions on all of the folders to 777 to a user name PLEX that has full permissions (I don't necessarily want to do this but want to make sure that permissions are not the issue)
Using the WebGUI, I added storage to the jail where source was /mnt/Drives/Media and the destination is /media under the plex jail. The first three folders I have in the /mnt/Drives/Media folder show up (Videos, Photos, Music) however there is nothing in any of those 3 folders.
I've been reading the forums over the past couple of days trying to figure out what I am doing wrong but have not been successful. I've read about mount points and permissions and perhaps I am just not doing it right. This is my first experience with FreeNas and never have used unix commands until now. I did try chmod -R 777 to my media folder however I got the errors operation not permitted (so perhaps there is a permissions issue).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. So far this has been a very frustrating experience.
Thank you
I created a new ZFS dataset for my media /mnt/Drives/Media and underneath those I have a folder structure which I did to keep my media organized /mnt/Drives/Media/Videos/Movies/Action and Adventure/Movie name/movie name.mp4. Videos is also a ZFS dataset. All of the folders underneath that were created via CIFS through Windows.
I've set permissions on all of the folders to 777 to a user name PLEX that has full permissions (I don't necessarily want to do this but want to make sure that permissions are not the issue)
Using the WebGUI, I added storage to the jail where source was /mnt/Drives/Media and the destination is /media under the plex jail. The first three folders I have in the /mnt/Drives/Media folder show up (Videos, Photos, Music) however there is nothing in any of those 3 folders.
I've been reading the forums over the past couple of days trying to figure out what I am doing wrong but have not been successful. I've read about mount points and permissions and perhaps I am just not doing it right. This is my first experience with FreeNas and never have used unix commands until now. I did try chmod -R 777 to my media folder however I got the errors operation not permitted (so perhaps there is a permissions issue).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. So far this has been a very frustrating experience.
Thank you