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New Share Folders - What Settings For PLEX?
I've just updated my ReadyNAS Ultra 4 Plus to firmware v6.10.2, due to my newer Samsung TVs not being able to see Plex.
The ReadyNAS is only used maily for serving movies, music etc around the home, with no outside world access required.
Connected to my FRITZ!Box router via a Linksys unmanaged switch, the ReadyNAS is used to serve media to 5 TVs around the home (only 2 in use at any one time) and various smartphones and tablets..
The newer ReadyNAS administrator interface is so very alien to me after using the old version for so long..
So I am setting up my folder structure as it was before in which to store my:
Backup Data
Kids Movies
Movies
Music
Music Videos
Photos
I'm just a bit confused as to what I need to enable or disable under the various tabs found in the settings for each share, such as:
Properties | Network Access | Snapshots | File Access
For the Multimedia folders above, I have the following selected/de-selected:
Properties:
Bit Rot Protectection ✘
Auto-Defrag ✔
Size (Quota) ✘
Network Access (Security):
SMB ✔ - NFS ✔ - AFP ✘ - FTP ✘ - RSYNC ✘ - HTTP ✘ - DLNA ✔ - iTunes ✘
Everyone: Read Only
Admin: Read/Write
Users: None
Admin: Read/Write
Snapshots:
Smart ✔
Daily ✔
Allow Snapshot ✘
File Access
Folder Owner: Admin
Folder Group: Admin
Grant Rename & Delete Privileges ✔
Everyone: Read Only
Folder Owner: Read/Write
Folder Group: Read Only
Admin: Read/Write
Users: None
The regular data folders are much the same, but without DLNA selected under Network Access
I would just like someone to point out where I may have gone wrong and what I should be selecting/deselecting.
Just tried copying some folderrand files over as a test and the Owner is still NAS-8B-C8 despite the name being changed to ReadyNAS.
I wonder if it needs a reboot?
It's been up 1 day 7 hours and I cannot remember shutting it down after changing the Host Name.
UPDATE!
That what it was after all the fannying about I've been doing today!
Thanks for the info guys!
Gotta accept my own post as a solution now, which makes me feel like a right numpty!:smileyindifferent:
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Ripperoo wrote:
File Access
Folder Owner: Admin
Folder Group: Admin
Grant Rename & Delete Privileges ✔
Everyone: Read Only
Folder Owner: Read/Write
Folder Group: Read Only
Admin: Read/Write
Users: None
I'd set Everyone, Users, and Folder Group here to Read/Write (and only depend on Network Access to manage access). I'd also disable NFS unless you have a linux PC that needs it. But I don't think this is related to your problem.
Is the plex app installed on your Samsung TVs? Are they newer than 2016? If they are older than that, you need to set "secure connections" to "preferred" in the plex server settings.
Plex has it's own DLNA server built in - if you want to use that, you should turn off DLNA in your share settings, and disable DLNA on system->settings->services. Note you would also need to enable DLNA in the plex server settings.
StephenB wrote:
'd set Everyone, Users, and Folder Group here to Read/Write (and only depend on Network Access to manage access). I'd also disable NFS unless you have a linux PC that needs it. But I don't think this is related to your problem.Is the plex app installed on your Samsung TVs? Are they newer than 2016? If they are older than that, you need to set "secure connections" to "preferred" in the plex server settings.
Plex has it's own DLNA server built in - if you want to use that, you should turn off DLNA in your share settings, and disable DLNA on system->settings->services. Note you would also need to enable DLNA in the plex server settings.
I manage my content using Windows Explorer and don't have a Linux computer, so I can basically just leave SMB activated and all my devices will stream OK from the ReadyNAS? Cool!
I have 5 Samsung TVs all with Plex on them and they range from 2013-2019, so thanks for the tip on "Secure Connections".
Is the problem you refer to, the one I mentioned in another thread?
If so, I think that issue is now resolved and was seemingly caused by one or more Firefox add-ons.
Once I removed them, the error messages have not occurred again.
Ripperoo wrote:
I have 5 Samsung TVs all with Plex on them and they range from 2013-2019, so thanks for the tip on "Secure Connections".
Is the problem you refer to, the one I mentioned in another thread?
No, I meant to not being able to use plex with the Samsung TVs. That was inferred from the title of your post.
Ripperoo wrote:
I manage my content using Windows Explorer and don't have a Linux computer, so I can basically just leave SMB activated and all my devices will stream OK from the ReadyNAS?
Well, SMB is the only file sharing protocol you need. Streaming with Plex would either be using the proprietary plex protocol (implemented in the plex server), or DLNA (also enabled in the plex server settings).
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