Plex Media Server

[Diego]

Hi ,

I trying configuring my plex server , but after install plugin and start the service , i can´t access to the url

What can i do ?? ,

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Hi ,

I trying configuring my plex server , but after install plugin and start the service , i can´t access to the url

What can i do ?? ,

can you ping the IP of the plex jail?

 

[Diego]

Hi ,

I trying configuring my plex server , but after install plugin and start the service , i can´t access to the url

What can i do ?? ,

can you ping the IP of the plex jail?

No , then i change the ip , and i configure the same ip of my freenas , but don´t work

Thannnksss !!

 

[NickB]

The jail needs its own unique IP address.

If you're using the plugin, you have to configure the security setting to allow IP traffic to the jail. I forget the exact name, but it's in the properties of the jail, I think from the left menu tree.

 

[Diego]

The jail needs its own unique IP address.

If you're using the plugin, you have to configure the security setting to allow IP traffic to the jail. I forget the exact name, but it's in the properties of the jail, I think from the left menu tree.

Thanks , I try it !!!

 

[NickB]

I had some time and looked it up, it's called "remote security ". This YouTube video gives an example of it at about the 7:20 mark
If you watch the whole video, I personally wouldn't setup permissions the way he did. I create individual user accounts, a single group account, and apply permissions accordingly. If not, you'd be vulnerable to people on your network being able to modify your files.

And I forgot to mention earlier, there are multiple ways of installing plex server as a jail within FreeNAS. The first is the plugin that you're using now. The other is through a jail you setup manually. It's a little more up front to learn, but IMO better in the long run. You have more control over it and can update it when you want. And the process is a lot faster.

There are s few examples out there. I think I got started with this one.
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/102532-how-to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-jail/

 

[NickB]

Here's another thread from recently that discusses a problem somebody had with the plugin. The plugin is basically a custom jail zipped up.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/Plex-update-hangs.27416/

 

[Diego]

I had some time and looked it up, it's called "remote security ". This YouTube video gives an example of it at about the 7:20 mark
If you watch the whole video, I personally wouldn't setup permissions the way he did. I create individual user accounts, a single group account, and apply permissions accordingly. If not, you'd be vulnerable to people on your network being able to modify your files.

And I forgot to mention earlier, there are multiple ways of installing plex server as a jail within FreeNAS. The first is the plugin that you're using now. The other is through a jail you setup manually. It's a little more up front to learn, but IMO better in the long run. You have more control over it and can update it when you want. And the process is a lot faster.

There are s few examples out there. I think I got started with this one.
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/102532-how-to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-jail/

Thanksssss !!!

I trying it , but my jail doesn´t have internet conection

 

[Diego]

I had some time and looked it up, it's called "remote security ". This YouTube video gives an example of it at about the 7:20 mark
If you watch the whole video, I personally wouldn't setup permissions the way he did. I create individual user accounts, a single group account, and apply permissions accordingly. If not, you'd be vulnerable to people on your network being able to modify your files.

And I forgot to mention earlier, there are multiple ways of installing plex server as a jail within FreeNAS. The first is the plugin that you're using now. The other is through a jail you setup manually. It's a little more up front to learn, but IMO better in the long run. You have more control over it and can update it when you want. And the process is a lot faster.

There are s few examples out there. I think I got started with this one.
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/102532-how-to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-jail/

Hi

The problem was that my nic in the virtual machine (Esxi) wasn´t in promiscuous mode , now is running perfectly

Thanksssss

 

[NickB]

So you're running FreeNAS as a vm and then running a virtualized os (the plugin)?

If so, why not just setup a vm for plex in either FreeBSD or Linux?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

So you're running FreeNAS as a vm and then running a virtualized os (the plugin)?

If so, why not just setup a vm for plex in either FreeBSD or Linux?

there is no additional overhead in plex running as a plugin vs running directly on Linux/FreeBSD. the process still runs on the FreeNAS kernel, but in a containerized userland.

I just wanted to point that out because your statement might be misunderstood. either way I would personally never run freenas virtually.

 

[NickB]

My post was more towards it being a more complex environment. Personally, I ran FreeNAS as a vm myself for over a year, and a second one to actually host more VMs just to have raid with the local disks - which worked really well. But, definitely goes against all the documentation recommendations.

From the documentation, it says you can only have 1 cpu (but I just checked and it appears additional cores are acceptable from some recent posts) for FreeNAS. If the limitation exists, it limits power to plex that it so much needs. And, you can't easily enforce cpu quotas for jails (and probably not within FreeNAS), so when plex tags the cpu, FreeNAS suffers.

Having it on it's own vm would allow the use of resource pools.