Plex container sees media files in filesystem, but not in webapp

Apps and Virtualization
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Hey everyone,

I just finished setting up my new NAS (migrated from Synology), and everything works just PERFECTLY (for a home user, if I showed you my config, many of you would probably get a heart attack regarding ACLs etc).

I have created a dataset called “NAS” with a share called “share” (creative, I know). Below that are all my folders, so I access the NAS with \\192.168.0.200\share

In that share folder is a folder called “Plex Mediathek” where I store all the video files, so I can simple upload them from my PC to the NAS.

Now, I want to setup a Plex server. What I did was under “additional storage”, I mounted the folder /mnt/NAS/share/Plex Mediathek of the host to the folder /media in the container.

When I open the console of the container and cd to /media, I can definitely see all movie folders and stuff. But when I access the web UI and try to browse for the files….they’re gone.

I gave the group “apps” read, write and execute permissions to the share folder, so I guess I must be doing something else wrong.

Anyone mind to point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Raine

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Plex data folder is the default volume for media. Ownership of the dataset (UID/GID) has to match what the YAML for Plex expects, which is 568:568.

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So I can’t just use a dataset that I use for SMB share then?

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sure you can, but you have to add the apps user to the acl list of that dataset. Otherwise the app doesn’t have permission to access the data.

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Like I said, I did add apps with the permissions Read, Write and execute.

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Did you apply the permissions recursively?

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… I would expect to see at least the folders in the mount’s “root” directory… yup, that was it….

btw. is it bad practice to only have ONE dataset for everything, when you only have two users who need full access to all files anyway?