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I'm running Xubuntu (XFCE 4.8 and Ubuntu 11.10) I've just intalled the Plex media server and I seem to be having some difficulty in getting it to recognize my media files. My first problem is that my laptop hard drive is fairly small so some of my media sits on an external USB drive. When setting the path for the the media libraries, the USB drive is recognized, but I can only point as far as the drive itself. There is no option to expand and select sub directories. I suspect this is the root of the problem.

If I just write the full path into the path box, the media files are still not recognized. The same thing happens for media actually in my home directory. I can point to /Home, but no further.

Is this is permissions issue and if so, how do I selve it? Running Ubuntu 12.10 I have seemingly identical problems with Plex Media Server not finding my media files Plex works perfectly on my home drive accessing directories and sub directories but will not recognize directories or files on a second internal hard drive (it is mounted). Again I can read and write files to this second hard drive normally, it is only Plex that does not recognise directories on the drive, it does see the drive. I too wonder if this is a permissions issue but as I can access the drive when logged in it does seem unlikely. Plex did work under 12.04 with the second hard drive no problems at all. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts? I'm not sure you have the same problem as me.

I had a separate hard drive that stores all my movies and tv shows. This was a left over drive from an old windows install. I could not get Plex to see the media. What I realized was, the drive wasn't mounting automatically, and would only mount when i went to access it. This made me think that maybe that was causing plex a problem.

I added the second hard drive to my fstab file, and that fixed the problem.Hi guys, just ran into this issue today. As others have mentioned in other forums the problem is that the 'plex' user doesn't belong to the 'plugdev' group which is the only group that has access to the mounted devices. All you need to do is to add plex to that group by using gpasswd. So apparently it does matter that my storage drive was NTFS as Linux cannot change permissions on NTFS file systems. It makes sense, but no one in this thread had that answer, found it in another thread. I'll chalk that up to my noob-ness when it comes to filesystem knowledge, but hey, I learned something new. I moved all my data off my NTFS drive, reformatted the drive to EXT4, moved all my data back and chmod all the permissions for my media plus using the above tactic of putting the plex user in the plugdev group (and my user group as well), and voila, Plex can see all my media now.

Hope this helps! THIS was a huge part in solving this issue! I've been working on this for a good few hours now and this made my day (almost). Fishbone Truth And Soul Zipper. Just incase anyone else stumbles upon this and needs help I'll post what I did to make it work. I implemented the solution above but also changed the mount point for the USB hard drive. I put it in the same location as all my plex media. Now I'm a linux noob, if I make a mistake please do correct me, but I'll make an attempt to explain how I got mine to work.

First I figured out what my USB device name is (/dev/sd***), I personally did this with gparted and found that the partition I wished to share was /dev/sdc1 (I think this can also be accomplished with. Code: /dev/sdc1 /home/user/videos/usb ntfs defaults 0 0Once I saved the file, I opened up Plex and it worked!

Thanks for the help, and I hope my messy and distorted post will help someone. Edit: just an quick update. It looks as though you will need to add the usb mount point directory (in my case /home/user/videos/USB) to the plex library, the parent directory didn't suffice in my case.

Probably a permissions issue, I'm sure with a little bit of messing around you could get it work without this add, but I decided I'm fine with having 2 directories for plex to look in. Last edited by haider254; August 6th, 2013 at 04:54 PM.

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Now, I was just wondering if it is possible to make Plex work properly. I followed the instructions in the following sites: The installation was successful. Although, whenever I'm accessing the web GUI, I'm receiving a message that I don't have the permission to managed it. I was able to login using my Plex account though. Do I have to be a premium member in order to properly use Plex? Because I'll be creating another KVM server, for a friend of mine.

So, do you think having a premium Plex account will benefit from it? Another thing, I've tried installing the Ubuntu version inside Debian. I received an error message that says plexmediaserver start is missing. I tried launching it from /etc/init.d but it doesn't exist there. Can you guys help me out? 1) install debian 2) download and install any Debian updates (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade) 3) reboot if any of the updated packages was a kernel 4) download and install plex.deb package 5) dpkg -i plex.deb 6) from your local machine, create an ssh tunnel to your server.

If you are using a Mac or Linux machine, use the command line I provided. This will 'tunnel' port 32400 on your local computer to port 32400 on 'localhost' on your server. If you are using windows, Putty is capable of making tunnels but I can't tell you how. 7) access from your computer, which will go through the tunnel (as mentioned) to localhost:32400 on your server and you can manage your plex server.

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For some reason, the first command you gave me didn't seem to work, I got: (trusty)chris@localhost:~$ cat /etc/lsb_release cat: /etc/lsb_release: No such file or directory as a response, but I'm running Trusty Unity. Also, I got similar responses on all of the other commands- (trusty)chris@localhost:~$ /etc/init.d/plexmediaservice start bash: /etc/init.d/plexmediaservice: No such file or directory Is there something I'm missing here? All I've done so far is installed a basic, generic Trusty Unity crouton install in chrome os, updated my intel drivers and then went to plex.tv, downloaded the 64-bit ubuntu file and installed it in software center. Did I skip a step or something? Do I need to install any dependencies that aren't out of the box? I'm a bit of a linux novice.

Odd, I was pretty sure they put lsb_release in /etc. (I am doing this from memory) maybe try issuing the command lsb_release not that it matters, if you know you are using trusty.

As far as the plex media server init script, I would look in /etc/init.d/ for something called 'plex' or something similar. It might just be: sudo /etc/init.d/plex start The linux trick of the day that you should learn, is how to use locate. Sudo apt-get install locate sudo updatedb updatedb will index all the files on your system. Then you can find things like the plex init script by typing sudo locate plex grep init What that command will do, is look through the locate database you created with 'updatedb' for any file name with plex in it, the ' ' command will take the text output of that command and 'pipe' it to the next command which is grep. Grep will search through all the prior results for a string containing 'init'.

Likewise, you could use a similar strategy to search for lsb_release sudo locate lsb_release cheers. I got Plex running a couple of times on my crouton, with xfce and 14.04 It was a pretty big pain, and required a non official install of the server. And after all that, while it did work for the most part, it was pretty buggy. From what I figured out after searching is that the official Plex server does not work.

If I remember correctly it requires a debian version? The official Plex forums had instructions on how to set up this. Bug again it requires non official server, modified by a plex community user. I found it too much of a pain and decided to forget about it. I dunno if that post is still there, but its worth checking out.

(edit) The thread has been updated since I last looked. --->• • • •.