Hi All,
I recently migrated from TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS Scale. I’m very familiar with Kubernetes as a runtime (I use it at work daily), and I have the app configured and running with 1 mount point.
However, I’m not clear on what permissions I need to set on my internal storage. For instance, I have the following mount point.
/mnt/Movie-Data (Kube Pod) -> /mnt/internal/media/Movies/Movie-Data (ZFS DataSet)
When Plex scans, it attempt to create the directory /mnt/internal/media/Movies/Movie-Data/.grab, and I receive a permission denied.
Feb 24, 2025 13:56:02.830 [140335965715256] ERROR - Couldn't check for the existence of file "/mnt/Movies-Data/.grab": boost::filesystem::status: Permission denied [system:13]: "/mnt/Movies-Data/.grab"
To figure out what user/group IDs I need to set, I temporarily set the permissions to open on the parent directory, then ran the Plex scan.
chmod -R 777 /mnt/internal/media/Movies/Movie-Data
This allowed Plex to create directory.
drwxrwx--- 2 root plex 2 Feb 24 14:06 .grab
After the .grab directory was created, I incorrectly assumed my user and group needed to be root:plex given those were the permissions set on the directory .grab. However, performing the following does not give plex permission to read my files.
chown -R root:plex /mnt/internal/media/Movies/Movie-Data
chmod -R 770 /mnt/internal/media/Movies/Movie-Data
I can’t seem to find what user/group I need to set in any of the documentation. Whenever, I try to stream, I receive these errors in the Plex log, since it’s unable to read the files. .
Feb 25, 2025 10:08:59.334 [140335933664056] ERROR - [Req#c2bf] Couldn't check for the existence of file "/mnt/Movies-Data/${filename}"
Any pointers/help would be greatly appreciated!