Plex Files on Synology how to access

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BCMielke

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I will admit I may have bitten off more than I can chew. I have some time around the holidays, so I am trying to move my Plex server from the Synology NAS it's on to a Proxmox server running on an old PC. I have gotten the Plex installed in a container, and it's running; I can't add the Movie files folder on my Synology to the libraries on the NAS. I have tried via NSA and SMB and watched scores of videos on the topic. Synology seems to be added correctly to Proxmox, but for the life of me, I can't find any of the Synology files either in Plex or using directory commands in the Console. Any chance that someone can assist a newbie with step-by-step help?

Thanks!
 
You can't mount external shares inside an 'unprivileged' container, you can mount them inside a 'privileged' container but this is less secure and not recommended.

Your options are
a) mount the shares on the proxmox host and then use bind-mounts to bring them into the plex container. Does require some mapping between user accounts on the host and the container to make things work.
b) run plex as a VM and mount the shares on the VM
 
Ok, I checked, and the container is privileged. It looks like it doesn't matter; it's not the way to go.

I believe I have mounted the shares on the proxmox host, but I will have to google how to bind mount them to bring them into the container and see how difficult it is.

I assume you mean install Linux or windows in a VM, or is there another way?

Thanks for the help.
 
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