Issue mounting network share in Plex LXC

[bobloadmire]

I'm following this guide: https://github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage/tree/main/LXC/NAS

It works fantastically in other lxcs I have like radarr and sonarr. However, following the same process, I can't get it to work in my plex LXC. The only core difference I know of is that the Plex LXC is Ubuntu based, and all the others are Debian. I have doubled checked that the LXC has been added to the share group, and that the lxc.conf has the mount point entered correctly. In fact the folder does show up in the LXC under /mnt/share, however the dir is empty, unlike the other LXCs where it populates the folder structure of the NAS.

Thanks for your help.

edit: solved it my self, although you login to the Plex LXC as root, plex installes itself under the user "plex" so you need to "usermod -aG lxc_shares plex". I'll leave this up incase anyone else ever has this issue.

 

[gerwen]

edit: solved it my self, although you login to the Plex LXC as root, plex installes itself under the user "plex" so you need to "usermod -aG lxc_shares plex". I'll leave this up incase anyone else ever has this issue.

Thank you sir! I was just having this same issue, while following this guide: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/tutorial-unprivileged-lxcs-mount-cifs-shares.101795/

Just to restate as clearly as possible for future users:
I could see /mnt/nas/ contents and subs while logged into the Plex LXC console as root. While actually using Plex to add libraries, etc, only the /mnt/nas/ folder was visible, none of its contents.

the above comand which I'll echo here fixed this. "usermod -aG lxc_shares plex"