Questions about Plex media server
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Questions tagged [plex]
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Plex Media Server: Won't find media External Hard Drive
I am attempting to turn an older PC into a home media server with Ubuntu 12.04 using Plex Media Server. I have a newer WD 2 TB external USB HD with all of my media on it.
I can not for the life of me figure out why Plex will not recognize the files…
grayed01
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Plex won't enter my home directory or other partitions
I just installed the Plex media server from the Ubuntu Software Center, and opened the web interface. I wanted to start by adding a collection. When it gave me a file browser, I wanted to go to /home/robin/Videos. /home is as far as I got. It showed…
RobinJ
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How do I prevent access to shutdown but not reboot?
I have a ubuntu pc running as a plex server. How do I get it so that no one can shutdown the computer but only allow the user to reboot the machine? I know it is possible in windows but I am just wondering if it is possible on ubuntu.
David Holland
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How to set up plexmediaserver in Ubuntu 16.04?
I can install it but it can't see my files. I believe It's a permission issue because plexmediaserver is run by 'plex' user. In Ubuntu 14.04, I could edit /etc/default/plexmediaserver so that it would be run by me. It's doesn't seem to work in 16.04…
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How do I add a network drive to Plex?
So I've been looking around and can't find an exact solution to my problem. I dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04. I like Ubuntu and want to use it instead of windows. Everything was working on Ubuntu 13.04 running PMS and a external USB HDD hooked…
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Problems starting plexmediaserver on Kubuntu 15.04
I have recently installed plexmediaserver 64-bit from the plex site on my Kubuntu 15.04 laptop and am unable to start. I believe it is in the change from how init scripts work?
If you look at the guide for Plex it says to execute…
jjesse
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How to resolve conflicting distributions in apt-get
When doing an apt-get update/upgrade I see that warning
W: Conflicting distribution: https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public InRelease (expected public but got )
I was upgrading to Ubuntu Zesty 17.04 before and do not know how to fix the above.…
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Where does Plex media server store its cache/settings?
I just want to know where to find the cache/settings locations for Plex Media Server? I just want to save it in case I need to reformat my drive.
I'm not sure if it matters but I am using Ubuntu 14.xx. And I installed Plex by downloading the .deb…
mrjayviper
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How to mount a Synology Diskstation NAS
I am a long time Windows person, with a little experience in Ubuntu. I am trying to set up Plex Media Server on a new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine. My video library is on a Synology Diskstation NAS named Sequoia2, and for the life of me (at least the…
Darryl
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How to make folders ' seen' by PLEX
When I want to add a folder to PLEX I cannot find it.
I have 2 harddrives in my computer. Ubuntu 13 installed on the 120GB SSD and another 1TB normal harddrive which contains 1 Folder called 'Films'. In that folder there are many other folders with…
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Plex Media Manager sees external NTFS drive but doesn't see directories
I'm running Plex Media Server. All my media files are on an external NTFS drive. The external drive mounts, I can browse the files in it, Plex Media Manager can see the external USB drive, but Plex Media Manager doesn't see any of the directories…
Dru Smith
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I cannot get Plex server to see any directories
I have tried adding a directory outside my home directory. /media/plex and soft linked my /Videos directory to it.
I have also added plex to udev group and also to my user group
uid=124(plex) gid=135(plex)…
Caustic
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Unable to start PlexMediaserver service
My plexmediaserver.service looks as per following.
[Unit]
Description=Plex Media Server for Linux
After=network.target
[Service]
Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/ …
user629834
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How to change mounting point?
By some reason Plex Media Manager won't recognize my partition(/media/radibg2/Radi/). I've tried to start
x-www-browser http://localhost:32400/manage
(this is what the plex shortcut which is showing in the search runs) as sudo but it again didn't…
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No /dev/dri directory in Ubuntu Server 20.04
I have a headless Intel NUC 11PAKi5 (with i5-1135G7 CPU and integrated Iris Xe Graphics + Quick Sync), running Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS.
I'm trying to enable hardware transcoding in a Docker Plex container - which requires the
/dev/dri/ directory to…
