How to add external NAS Qnap drives to TrueNas

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I have a TrueNAS system running on an i7 PC, which is set up with a local drive pool for use with Plex. Everything is working well—Plex is accessing the media from the TrueNAS pool without any issues.

I also have a separate QNAP NAS, and I want to add it as a pool to TrueNAS so I can access the movies stored on the QNAP drives through Plex. However, I can’t seem to access the QNAP directly from Plex. Even though I’ve added the QNAP’s IP address and configured the server settings in Plex, it still only seems to want to access media through TrueNAS.

On the QNAP, I’ve enabled both SMB and NFS, and I can access the QNAP from my Windows PC without any problems. However, I can’t figure out how to mount or access the QNAP from the TrueNAS system.

Can anyone help with this?

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That’s because you cannot, TrueNAS explicitly does not support that.

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You can run Plex from a VM and mount both TrueNAS and Qnap shares in the VM.

You have the overhead of running a VM but on the other hand you have the flexibility of mounting multiple data sources.

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Thanks again

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Doesn’t the official iX app offer smb as additional storage type?