Plex Media Server has it’s own user that interacts with the shared drive, and we need to allow that user to access. Step 1: Find out the User and Group ID of the plex user Both machines have their own Reserved IP/DHCP Addresses on my local network. My specific setup is using an old-ass Intel LGA 775 Dell running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and a 4 Bay QNAP NAS that has a protected shared folder with the default properties.

You don’t blame me if you mess up, as the following procedure can easily brick your Ubuntu machine if the changes to the /etc/fstab file we will be editing is done incorrectly.

You are comfortable enough using Terminal to perform this operation.

Plex Media Server is installed and running on Ubuntu.

You have a NAS or Server already sharing a network drive that requires a username and password to access, and it’s available on the local network at a static IP.

If you go to Docker hub and find this image you can read details on all the different configuration options.Setting up Plex on Ubuntu and want it to be able to use files from a local Server or NAS? A beginner’s guide to getting a network drive loading in a place that Plex (running on Ubuntu 16.04) can access it.įinally putting this guide up here since I’ve constantly have forgotten how to do this, and there hasn’t been a single place with all of this info together. This is what works for an Intel integrated GPU and I assume for others as well.

Pass in your /dev/dri as a device if you want to do HW transcoding. You can probably avoid the net=host if you specify every port directly. Your docker command will look something like the following. You can even do HW transcoding in your container if you pass in your graphics card. I like the linuxserver/plex container image but plex has an official one as well.

You can install the containers-basic bundle to get docker install sudo swupd bundle-add containers-basic Then you need to start docker sudo systemctl start docker and if you want Docker to start every time you reboot run sudo systemctl enable docker. I run mine as a container and it works great and gives me a little more isolation from other services than if I ran directly on the host.

Plex media server for linux