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Plex and share access
Hi I have purchased a readynas and set up shares with specific permissions to the best of my understanding. I have installed Plex which is working fine but it seems to have unrestricted access to all...
If you install Plex on the NAS itself, then it isn't accessing the files over the network. It's using the native BTRFS file system on the NAS. So network file permissions can't be used to limit its access.
Theoretically you could use file permissions instead of network permissions. But the Plex Media Server is installed as admin/admin, so you'd also be denying the NAS admin account access to those files also - which is not a good idea.
The only simple way to do what you want is to run Plex on a different machine, and only give that machine access to the shares that it needs.
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