Problems with Plex

[thomasps]

I installed Plex as an Amahi app. However, I'm having problems: it does not seem to detect anything.
I have Greyhole.
Mounted SMB shares locally
Added the following folder to plex: /mnt/samba/Movies/Documentaries
No videos is listed in Plex
Triggered a manual deep scan. Still nothing.

Am I doing something wrong? Any permission issue with the SMB shares?

[bigfoot65]

Check the permissions of the mount point. They should be first admin user:users.

[thomasps]

Check the permissions of the mount point. They should be first admin user:users.

It shows:

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ls -la /mnt/samba/Movies/ drwxrwx--- 0 thomas users 0 May 22 17:53 Documentaries

which is the first admin user (I believe)

[bigfoot65]

Looks like the permissions are incorrect. Should be 775 and appear to be 770. That may be the issue.

[thomasps]

Got it. Thanks!

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[bigfoot65]

You are welcome. So is this resolved?

[thomasps]

You are welcome. So is this resolved?

No
But that appears to be because I might have not given the correct chmod. Are you able to tell me how to give the appropriate permission to the mnt/samba/ folders keeping in mind this was setup to mount them automatically as per the wiki?

Thanks.

[bigfoot65]

The command would be:

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sudo chmod -R 775 /mnt/samba

[bigfoot65]

Another question. Why do you need to point to the /mnt/samba location? Plex is just accessing files as read only, so no writing is taking place. I would suggest pointing it to the normal shares in /var/hda/files.

[thomasps]

Another question. Why do you need to point to the /mnt/samba location? Plex is just accessing files as read only, so no writing is taking place. I would suggest pointing it to the normal shares in /var/hda/files.

Good point... I don't know why I'm pointing there Perhaps, because using Greyhole I've been warned not to ever mess with /var/hda/files ...