Hi Everyone,

 

I've been at this for about 20 hours now, and I am completely stuck - yes there's a heap of info and help all over the place, but I can't seem to find anything for what I am specifically trying to do, so was hoping you guys might kindly provide some assistance....

 

I have a HP N40L that was my plex/sabnzbd/sickbeard server, but performance has been increasingly degrading.  So I have a new Ubuntu micro PC (Vorke V2), to act as my Plex Media Server, and to host SABnzbd and SIckBeard, and I have installed unRAID on the N40L, to act just as a NAS, so the load is minimal.

 

My first problem is that I cannot add a library to Plex to 'see' all the media on the NAS.  I can see the Tower and the shares through file manager (or whatever it's called in Ubuntu), but can't for the life of me point Plex to the right place to see the media.

 

Second problem is trying to set up SickBeard to that it autoprocesses downloads to move the files over to the NAS, into the right folders. 

 

They are my two major pain points - can anyone help?  I am completely new to Ubuntu and unRAID - and while individually I have both up and running well (I think), the vision in my head of how this was going to work isn't quite happening....

 

Thanks in advance...

Ok, having thought about this a bit more, I thought it might be best to have sickbeard and sabnzbd on the unRAID server - so I think that problem now goes away, leaving just the plex issues....

Yes, it will be easier to get started just using Sab and SB on the unRAID server.  The only time they use much CPU is when Sab is unpacking so I'm guessing you'd be fine with that setup.

 

For Plex, you need to get the Ubuntu micro PC to mount the SMB share from your unRAID server, or enable NFS on your unRAID server if that's easier.

Thanks tdallen - I've gone through and installed SABnzbd and SickBeard on the unRAID server, tested them out a little bit, and so far it all seems to work.  Still a bit to do but I think I can work that all out....

 

Still having massive problems with Plex though - no matter what I try I just cannot get Plex to 'see' anything on unRAID.

 

I've installed Unnassiged Devices on unRAID, and mounted all the shares that I thought I needed - both SMB and NFS, trying to play it safe.

 

I can see and mount the shares on the Ubuntu device, but when I create a new library in Plex I don't get any of the shares as options, and even typing in the whole path gives no joy.

 

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing or have done wrong?

I'm not sure what's going on, but I think the question is best asked in the Plex forums at this point.  If I understand correctly, you have Ubuntu installed on a micro PC, Plex installed on Ubuntu on the micro PC, and you were able to successfully mount the unRAID shares under Ubuntu.  So the question is, what's going on with Plex on Ubuntu that it can't see a mounted file system?  Aside from the fact that the mounted file system is coming from unRAID it seems like this is mostly local to Plex on Ubuntu?

 

Unfortunately my experience with Plex is mostly on Windows and unRAID (plugin and Docker) so I'm not sure what's happening with this issue on Ubuntu, but I suspect the folks on the Plex forums could help.

I don't understand why you are using the Unassigned Devices plugin? This should be used for mounting external shares for use by UnRaid, it appears what you are wanting to do is the opposite, mount shares from UnRaid to another system.

Thanks tdallen - I've been checking everywhere including the Plex forums for answers, guess I will keep on going

 

NeoDude - yes, what I wanted to do was the opposite, I am completely new to unRAID and Ubuntu, but from what I was reading it looked like Unassigned Devices was going to do what I needed to do (mount the shares)... I'm guessing I was wrong?

 

From Ubuntu (micro PC running Plex), I can go to the file directory, click on "Network", and see everything that's on the network - including all the shares from the unRAID server.  I can then 'mount' (either double click or right-click "mount") those shares, and they appear in Ubuntu, in the file directory.

 

I've realised I still need to sort out persistent mounts, but I think tdallen is right - seems something within Plex limiting what it can see.

 

Thanks for the help guys... I'll keep plodding away....

As I said, Unassigned Devices would be used if there was a network share on the Ubuntu machine that you wanted mounted within UnRaid for whatever reason. You want to do the opposite, mount a share from UnRaid within Ubuntu. Assuming that the share is set up correctly within UnRaid and you can see it via the network on the Ubuntu machine this should be a matter of adding an entry to the Fstab file, something like...

 

server:/usr/local/ShareName    /ShareName   nfs    rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr