Plex & Nextcloud: Permissions

spaxx2000

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Hi there,

I use the nextcloud plugin on my truenas box to store all my data including media. Recently I setup the plex plugin and now I have the nextcloud server and the plex server running without any issues.

Where I have difficulties is the sharing of the media files between nextcloud and plex. All nextcloud files have there own permissions, depending on the user etc. On the plex side I use a mountpoint to get the nextcloud files. But plex is not allowed to read the files. For testing purposes, I did chmod 755 on the nextcloud files, but if I add new files in nextcloud they are not recognized by plex because they have the original nextcloud permissions.

Sorry, I'm not very familiar with linux-permissions, so I kindly ask for hint how to get it work.

For integrity-reasons I do not plan to modifiy or delete media files within plex. All that is done in nextcloud. Plex only needs to read the files.

Thank you!
 

spaxx2000

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After refreshing my basic knowledge on linux-permissions I managed plex to read the files.

Solution was to add the plex user to the www-group.
 
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