House Of Cards
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Looking for advice on what next to try...
I waited to get FreeNAS 11.0-STABLE installed before tackling setting up Plex. I have done a manual installation of Plex following the guide here.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-9-10-jail.19412/
It was written for 9.10, but seemed to work the same on 11.0. It installed a standard template and downloaded and installed Plex 1.5.6.3790-4613ce077. I can access the Plex Web UI, but can't see attached storage. I have created a Plex user and group with the same UID and GID reported for the user in the Plex Jail on FreeNAS. I added a storage component for a movie library to Plex through the Web UI, but it says there is no media in the folder.
1. If I go to the shell for the jail, I can browse the contents of the mounted storage I added (as root), so I'm fairly certain this is another permissions issue. Am I missing something?
2. When I created the plex user on my FreeNAS system, it required me to create a password. Is there a password for the Plex user on the Jail? I'm assuming they should be the same to work correctly?
3. I'm not familiar with Docker or VM's yet. Is there a better, more "future-proof" way of installing Plex? Should I wait for Docker? Make a VM? If you weren't in a hurry to set this up, would you do something different than use a jail, is the question...
4. Or am I just stoopid?
Any help would be great....
I waited to get FreeNAS 11.0-STABLE installed before tackling setting up Plex. I have done a manual installation of Plex following the guide here.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-9-10-jail.19412/
It was written for 9.10, but seemed to work the same on 11.0. It installed a standard template and downloaded and installed Plex 1.5.6.3790-4613ce077. I can access the Plex Web UI, but can't see attached storage. I have created a Plex user and group with the same UID and GID reported for the user in the Plex Jail on FreeNAS. I added a storage component for a movie library to Plex through the Web UI, but it says there is no media in the folder.
1. If I go to the shell for the jail, I can browse the contents of the mounted storage I added (as root), so I'm fairly certain this is another permissions issue. Am I missing something?
2. When I created the plex user on my FreeNAS system, it required me to create a password. Is there a password for the Plex user on the Jail? I'm assuming they should be the same to work correctly?
3. I'm not familiar with Docker or VM's yet. Is there a better, more "future-proof" way of installing Plex? Should I wait for Docker? Make a VM? If you weren't in a hurry to set this up, would you do something different than use a jail, is the question...
4. Or am I just stoopid?
Any help would be great....