why would you do that it dont work this is what UI got got a Error: [EPERM] Changing permissions on jail dataset paths is not permitted: /mnt/PLEX/iocage/media this is way harder than windows wow fucked
When adding the explicit ACL for the Plex user, consider doing it Read & Write. That will allow you to do things in Plex like adding optimized versions or deleting media directly.
thanks for this... i was actually just going to ask about that since i know on the full versions that run in windows it can create optimized versions. wasn't sure if that was something the plug-in could do. Been trying to find the limitations of the plug-in vs the actual version that runs on bare metal.
Hands down one of the most useful online tutorials I've ever watched! Could not have set up Plex without this. Your final words are funny though; "how to set up Plex in just a couple of clicks". A couple of hundred more like it!! Still, you walked us through it in great detail and a perfect pace. Thank you so much! Footnote: A "How to install Syncthing" tutorial soon please!
10:10 This is where I was getting stuck because nobody would explain why I couldn't access the media file! Thankyou so much for heling me on my Linux Journey!
This was HUGE! I was having trouble loading my library into Emby, but your video showed me that it was a permissions issue. Huge props for showing how to locate the process UID. Modified the ACLs and voila!!. Thank you!
You are a great teacher and very thorough. Thanks for the step by step instructions. Very easy to follow. You didn't miss a thing. Thanks and keep up the great work. Just to add you don't know how many times I try to follow people on any other tutorials and they miss things. So thanks again. Just really had to comment!!
Thanks for this video. Installed TrueNAS for the first time yesterday, planning on accessing it directly from my Oppo UHD player. No shares found :( Tried every tip from forums, but nothing worked. After giving up for the night i found this video, and today i started step by step following your instructions. 30 minutes later I have a working share on my test setup, showing on my Oppo :D
Great video, very instructive and easy to follow. Honestly would of given up trying to use TrueNas as a NAS if it weren't for these instructional videos. Thanks.
Have now used two of your videos to good advantage. Thank you. One suggestion, since I was watching these as a blueprint for how to update an old FreeNAS and PLEX install. You might add a word or two about what to do if there are are already items in place (e.g. media already in the NAS for PLEX, a PLEX installation (Warden) already in a jail). Sometimes adding new works OK but working around things already present is dicey.
I had trouble seeing the folders and files, went down the permissions rabbit hole. Turns out, you must map each dataset into the jail, even if they are under the main dataset. All good now, but posting in case anyone else has Movies/TVShows/Music in datasets under the main dataset. So I created folders, chown -R plex:PlexUsers and mapped each sub-dataset (Movies, TVShows, Music) and it worked right away - with these instructions. Thanks!
New subscriber from this video. I have just successfully installed and set up TrueNAS on my server build and did a fresh Plex install thanks to your easy to follow tutorials. Thank you! Cheers!
This was very helpful! Saved me a lot of time fiddling with settings and just get working. Also your background music choice was really nice. It's a small thing, but so many UA-cam vids are so annoying with there music. yours had perfect volume and did not distract from the content.
the best one! Thanks a lot, but it would be also great to notice that datasets are not equal folders. As a novice I didn't know that and spent 4 days trying to make Plex see content inside of datasets
Love the video. I've installed truenas on an old pc i got from work. Installed plex and almost got my 700GB or so of movies on it. The few 4k movies will play though. Making this old i5 quad core jump up to 97 percent usage at times. Chills around 65-70 it looks like. I'm super pumped. Just need to sort through the tv shows that are showing up individually though.
Jesus Plex folks, so many non intuitive steps here! Very well explained I don't think I would have ever figured some of those mounting and permission steps out on my own. Many thanks!
This is such a great video. I have used it now about 4 times,due to changing up plex server setups. Follow the video and I guarantee you it will work. Simple steps to follow.
When you will make a dataset change the generic to SMB if you want to see it under windows.Permissions are generally used for non-SMB or Generic datasets, so that means any dataset using AFP or NFS shares. SMB datasets for Windows clients will utilize ACLs.
When I try to install Plex it says package failed to install connection reset by peer after a long wait. Not sure whats going on. EDIT: After several weeks of troubleshooting, I found a fix in a random forum. When installing the plugin, click advanced, then unselect DHCP VNET and NAT and manually enter an IP. Then it will install Then I followed the rest of the vid. Awesome tutorial you earned yourself a sub :)
here is a comment i found after a lot of searching, plex install had constant errors but this post fixed it: ''I founded the solution: When I install a plugin, I must remove DHCP, NAT, VNET, Berkeley Packet Filter, specify the IPv4 adress and the Netmask. After that, Plex Media installed.'' - Houmin 2021 truenas forum its under advances plugin installation
Thank you!!! Better video that the TrueNAS own video on this. I tried their video first but it didnt work they failed to show you the the Media folder fix.
Amazing chanel and video !!! I'm from Latin America (Argentina), I always had issues with Plex and the subtitles ... So I buy a regular android tv for the smart tv, connected to freenas (to the shared folders) directly and use Kodi to watch movies ... also I don't use the CPU processing of the NAS and I can use the android tv also for other stuff like games, youtube, emulators, and more.
Can you do a video you would get so many hits on how to backup your metadata from trune as for Plex so in case something happens to your server you always have that metadata so you don't have to redo all your libraries and stuff please do a video that would be freaking awesome
Great video really helped me out. May want to add troubleshooting for Truenas not being able to connect to the plugin server. I had to fix my network settings with the correct nameservers and DNS. Took about 20 minutes of google to figure out. I am a total newb with this stuff.
@Everything Smart Home If you ever do a video on replicating your TrueNAS 12 and up, make sure that you cover these two things. 1. In TrueNAS 12, before setting-up a replication task you need to ensure that you turn on SSH. By default it is turned off. So, if they just try to set-up a replication and miss this step then they will not have a successful task creation. 2. When you run a one time replication task you can turn-off Read Only Access. If you set-up a scheduled task, it will copy the data, but it will be in read only access. Once they have the replication complete, and fully replicated to their other server, they need to go to the server where the replication was done, they need to go to Pools>edit options> Advanced Options>and select Read Only Off. It took me a few days to figure it out on my own. I searched the TrueNAS Community forum, everything was referencing 11.0 and older and did not really help me in this situation.
So you can have a area with content to share with larger group. Maybe some movies... But then a different set that family members only for things like photos and family videos?
After setting up with instructions, I can stream an example movie with plex. However, now I can't add files to the folder used to stream movies. Please advise
Hi, did everything step by step and i have an issue. None of the files I add after initial add, my Plex server doesn't see them. For example, i add a folder to TV Shows and that one appears in my library but the next folder i add doesn't appear there no matter what (yes i scanned the library after add). Any ideas of what is going on? Thank you.
how is it possible to enable hardware transcoding in truenas? i have plex pass, the hw checkbox in plex settings is enabled but still no hw acceleration? TY!
This is a brilliant tut and I am happy to say that my Plex/TrueNAS combo is up and running and has been for a few months now. Unfortunately, my Plex app is due for an upgrade and I cannot find a working tut to help me do this. Would you please do a follow up tut to show newbies how to upgrade the Plex app on TrueNAS? TIA
Do I have to create a separate dataset for plex or can I use an already created dataset that I use as my general network drive? I already have everything organized so I don't see why I couldn't just mount it and let plex read certain folders.
watched this video to see if I did anything wrong. Which I didn't but... I would recommend setting up Transcoding to /tmp and mounting the /tmpfs in plex if you are using SSD for the app installs/metadata.
Good advice, thanks for posting it! There is lots I didn't include here just to keep things more beginner friendly but there is a lot more we could cover in a future video I'm sure!
i tried to use it on my old laptop to turn it into server! but i had a problem that the boot device (My Laptop Hdd) can't be shown in Pool options seems that u can't choose boot Drive as a drive for the pool
hello, I have a question why I no longer have the files in my smb share that are displayed, so I can no longer add content to my nas, how to do it please?
@@EverythingSmartHome oh, I see. I have put some random DNS (not sure if this is ok tho) and for gateway my router's IP. It works now, just installing the plugin, thank you! = )
It's not a great idea using an external DNS server because then it won't be able to resolve internal addresses. Recommend changing it to your router if you can
Fantastic video! We'll be spreading it across our social media channels!
For what? FreeBSD cant transcode. It is working as shining player only.
Chinese users need him!
why would you do that it dont work this is what UI got got a Error: [EPERM] Changing permissions on jail dataset paths is not permitted: /mnt/PLEX/iocage/media this is way harder than windows wow fucked
When adding the explicit ACL for the Plex user, consider doing it Read & Write. That will allow you to do things in Plex like adding optimized versions or deleting media directly.
Good point, something I forgot to mention! Thanks for the tip
thanks for this... i was actually just going to ask about that since i know on the full versions that run in windows it can create optimized versions. wasn't sure if that was something the plug-in could do. Been trying to find the limitations of the plug-in vs the actual version that runs on bare metal.
im happy with read only version - kids have a habbit of deleting everything
@@richsmif You know it! Even old people clicking on things lol
The first proper video showing step by step. Legend.
Thanks. This is the only video I've found that actually explained everything and didn't forget steps.
Thank you, appreciate it! 🙏
As a complete beginner, I was able to set up a plex server on my TrueNAS server (using your tutorial) using this great guide. Thanks so much!
Just delivered me from the frustration I had in getting my movies to show up on Plex. Thanks man.
Excellent glad I could help!
Hands down one of the most useful online tutorials I've ever watched! Could not have set up Plex without this. Your final words are funny though; "how to set up Plex in just a couple of clicks". A couple of hundred more like it!! Still, you walked us through it in great detail and a perfect pace. Thank you so much!
Footnote: A "How to install Syncthing" tutorial soon please!
Thank you, appreciate your kind words!
The first only only youtuber I have found showing how to do this but also EXPLAINING why you are doing what you do.
10/10. Thankyou.
10:10 This is where I was getting stuck because nobody would explain why I couldn't access the media file! Thankyou so much for heling me on my Linux Journey!
This was exactly what I needed. Thank you for the concise and extremely helpful video.
Thanks Mark!
This is BY FAR the best tutorial ! I spent 4 hours yesterday with no luck. You had me up and going in no time :) Thank you .
This is an older video, but the only video I saw that was able to help me get plex running on TrueNAS!
Thanks this video helped massively, i recently built my truenas system, and was struggling to setup plex, this video is spot on. Thanks
Ah thank you, so glad it helped 🙏
@@EverythingSmartHome Just did emby works the same. thanks
This was HUGE! I was having trouble loading my library into Emby, but your video showed me that it was a permissions issue. Huge props for showing how to locate the process UID. Modified the ACLs and voila!!. Thank you!
Awesome, really glad it helped! 🙏
I’d love to see a TrueNas + HomeAssistant combo video
Dont know what I would have done without this video!
Finally Plex is running on my TrueNAS box. Excellent video. Follow him step by step!
Excellent, glad it worked!
You are a great teacher and very thorough. Thanks for the step by step instructions. Very easy to follow. You didn't miss a thing. Thanks and keep up the great work. Just to add you don't know how many times I try to follow people on any other tutorials and they miss things. So thanks again. Just really had to comment!!
Thank you very much, appreciate the support!
Thanks for this video. Installed TrueNAS for the first time yesterday, planning on accessing it directly from my Oppo UHD player.
No shares found :( Tried every tip from forums, but nothing worked.
After giving up for the night i found this video, and today i started step by step following your instructions.
30 minutes later I have a working share on my test setup, showing on my Oppo :D
Great video, very instructive and easy to follow. Honestly would of given up trying to use TrueNas as a NAS if it weren't for these instructional videos. Thanks.
Hey thanks Joe! Let me know what else you want to see!
Thank you for the tutorial! This whole setup with TrueNAS is a lot of a better experience than going with the webadmin route.
Your welcome!
Have now used two of your videos to good advantage. Thank you.
One suggestion, since I was watching these as a blueprint for how to update an old FreeNAS and PLEX install. You might add a word or two about what to do if there are are already items in place (e.g. media already in the NAS for PLEX, a PLEX installation (Warden) already in a jail). Sometimes adding new works OK but working around things already present is dicey.
Thanks for the support and thanks for the feedback!
Don't know if you'll see this but thank you so much for this! You helped me fix some issues with my server and appreciate this more than you know!
Amazing. I couldn’t figure it out and now its working great. Thanks so much.
Awesome glad to hear it!
Thanks for the brilliant video on the set up, I was missing the Plex user setup part and was causing me a headache. It now works great.
I had trouble seeing the folders and files, went down the permissions rabbit hole. Turns out, you must map each dataset into the jail, even if they are under the main dataset. All good now, but posting in case anyone else has Movies/TVShows/Music in datasets under the main dataset. So I created folders, chown -R plex:PlexUsers and mapped each sub-dataset (Movies, TVShows, Music) and it worked right away - with these instructions. Thanks!
Super helpful video. As a first time TrueNAS user, this was exactly what I needed to get unstuck. Thank you!
Best tutorial about plex on UA-cam
Thanks for the job
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Clean, tidy and well presented. Great presentation !!
Thanks Stuart! 🙏
New subscriber from this video. I have just successfully installed and set up TrueNAS on my server build and did a fresh Plex install thanks to your easy to follow tutorials. Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks very much, appreciate it and glad you got it working! 🙏
Just finished my truenas build today and got plex up and running thanks to this video. This seemed way more complicated than it needed to be :/
Please make another video with how to install and setup QBittorrent on TrueNAS. Your videos are fantastic BTW. Good work.
This was very helpful! Saved me a lot of time fiddling with settings and just get working. Also your background music choice was really nice. It's a small thing, but so many UA-cam vids are so annoying with there music. yours had perfect volume and did not distract from the content.
Thank you for the feedback and for watching, appreciate it 🙏
such a big help been looking around all day trying to figure this out. Much help indeed
This one helped a ton with mounting the plex media folder and getting permissions set up. Thanks!
Glad you got it working, thanks for watching!
the best one! Thanks a lot, but it would be also great to notice that datasets are not equal folders. As a novice I didn't know that and spent 4 days trying to make Plex see content inside of datasets
Love the video. I've installed truenas on an old pc i got from work. Installed plex and almost got my 700GB or so of movies on it. The few 4k movies will play though. Making this old i5 quad core jump up to 97 percent usage at times. Chills around 65-70 it looks like. I'm super pumped. Just need to sort through the tv shows that are showing up individually though.
Jesus Plex folks, so many non intuitive steps here! Very well explained I don't think I would have ever figured some of those mounting and permission steps out on my own. Many thanks!
This is such a great video. I have used it now about 4 times,due to changing up plex server setups. Follow the video and I guarantee you it will work. Simple steps to follow.
Nice one 🙌
Great detailed, easy to follow video. Thank you!
You're a real chad friend.
When you will make a dataset change the generic to SMB if you want to see it under windows.Permissions are generally used for non-SMB or Generic datasets, so that means any dataset using AFP or NFS shares. SMB datasets for Windows clients will utilize ACLs.
Thank you so much for this. I have been trying to figure out the shares bit for about a week! Also, nowt wrong with those films! they are awesome :)
Nice one, glad I could help!
When I try to install Plex it says package failed to install connection reset by peer after a long wait. Not sure whats going on.
EDIT: After several weeks of troubleshooting, I found a fix in a random forum. When installing the plugin, click advanced, then unselect DHCP VNET and NAT and manually enter an IP. Then it will install
Then I followed the rest of the vid. Awesome tutorial you earned yourself a sub :)
Thanks for your easy to follow instructions
Great video, it was a great help to get mine going. My mistake was I created the share before the dataset and that seems to cause a lot of issues.
Thank you for this brilliant video on a complex subject, and all this with class, well done sir 😊
Excellent tutorial and also works for version 13. Cheers man.
Tell me, if there is a graphics card in the PC hardware that TrueNAS is install on, would Plex be able to use the GPU for hardware transcoding?
Thank you for your Video, it helped me out very much, to find out what i've done wrong! Now it worked... Wished i have found your video 48hrs ago! *g*
Thank you for your amazing video . I have one mỏe reason to love Truenas/Freenas.
Thx... it was easy under your Tutorial...
Thanks so much! I always thought I had to build another computer to install plex on it!
here is a comment i found after a lot of searching, plex install had constant errors but this post fixed it: ''I founded the solution: When I install a plugin, I must remove DHCP, NAT, VNET, Berkeley Packet Filter, specify the IPv4 adress and the Netmask. After that, Plex Media installed.'' - Houmin 2021 truenas forum its under advances plugin installation
Great video! My Plex / TruNas Server is up and running and I learned a lot.
Glad you liked it, thanks for your support!
Thank you!!! Better video that the TrueNAS own video on this. I tried their video first but it didnt work they failed to show you the the Media folder fix.
Amazing chanel and video !!!
I'm from Latin America (Argentina), I always had issues with Plex and the subtitles ... So I buy a regular android tv for the smart tv, connected to freenas (to the shared folders) directly and use Kodi to watch movies ... also I don't use the CPU processing of the NAS and I can use the android tv also for other stuff like games, youtube, emulators, and more.
Thanks my friend!
Thank you. Well made and helpful for me as a newbie TrueNAS user.
Thanks Adam, I'm very glad!
Thanks, I am now up and running. Great and concise video.
Thanks Robert, appreciate it!
Thank you, the official tutorial from TrueNas does not have the ACL part and the media discovery does not work without it.
Your explanations are clear. I guess you could be a teacher :) . Thanks for sharing 😀
Thanks my friend!
You're fantastic. Joined your community, thank you!
Hey thanks Max!! Appreciate it, you legend! 🙌
Thank you for the tutorial. That helped a lot.
Can you do a video you would get so many hits on how to backup your metadata from trune as for Plex so in case something happens to your server you always have that metadata so you don't have to redo all your libraries and stuff please do a video that would be freaking awesome
great work. Made things easy. Thanks a lot
Great video really helped me out. May want to add troubleshooting for Truenas not being able to connect to the plugin server. I had to fix my network settings with the correct nameservers and DNS. Took about 20 minutes of google to figure out. I am a total newb with this stuff.
Thanks appreciate it!
Could you share what you did?
For anyone wondering. If here is no id for plex. Just use 972.
Works out.
Really useful and clear - thanks for this.
Thank. You.
Subscription made sure I saw this. Worth.
Thanks mate! Amazing video!
Great video. It was really helpful.
A great tutorial. Easy to follow. Thanks
Thanks my friend!
6:46 "and now we're ready to install plex" - :)
Thanks top info for Nas Dummies like me Easy to follow 👍
Very good video guy ! thank you so much to help a french user !
Thanks friend!
@@EverythingSmartHome Please, i want tuto on Nextcloud (config HTTPS) for TrueNas :p
Loving this video! Calm and nice tempo and helped me alot :)
Thanks Simon, appreciate it and glad it helped!
Any chance you can demo GPU passthrough?
BIG thank's for this awesom video now i know how conf plex server on nas =)
@Everything Smart Home
If you ever do a video on replicating your TrueNAS 12 and up, make sure that you cover these two things.
1. In TrueNAS 12, before setting-up a replication task you need to ensure that you turn on SSH. By default it is turned off. So, if they just try to set-up a replication and miss this step then they will not have a successful task creation.
2. When you run a one time replication task you can turn-off Read Only Access. If you set-up a scheduled task, it will copy the data, but it will be in read only access. Once they have the replication complete, and fully replicated to their other server, they need to go to the server where the replication was done, they need to go to Pools>edit options> Advanced Options>and select Read Only Off.
It took me a few days to figure it out on my own. I searched the TrueNAS Community forum, everything was referencing 11.0 and older and did not really help me in this situation.
Obrigado eu estava a dias tentando configurar e não achei nada de qualidade na internet. Muito obrigado vc me ajudou demais com esse video.
Since media files are already compressed, it might make sense to disable compression on the media dataset.
Straight forward and spot on. Thanks.
Thanks Scott, appreciate it!
So you can have a area with content to share with larger group. Maybe some movies...
But then a different set that family members only for things like photos and family videos?
After setting up with instructions, I can stream an example movie with plex. However, now I can't add files to the folder used to stream movies. Please advise
Hi, did everything step by step and i have an issue. None of the files I add after initial add, my Plex server doesn't see them. For example, i add a folder to TV Shows and that one appears in my library but the next folder i add doesn't appear there no matter what (yes i scanned the library after add). Any ideas of what is going on? Thank you.
how is it possible to enable hardware transcoding in truenas? i have plex pass, the hw checkbox in plex settings is enabled but still no hw acceleration? TY!
This is a brilliant tut and I am happy to say that my Plex/TrueNAS combo is up and running and has been for a few months now. Unfortunately, my Plex app is due for an upgrade and I cannot find a working tut to help me do this. Would you please do a follow up tut to show newbies how to upgrade the Plex app on TrueNAS? TIA
Do I have to create a separate dataset for plex or can I use an already created dataset that I use as my general network drive? I already have everything organized so I don't see why I couldn't just mount it and let plex read certain folders.
You are awesome. Thank you🙏🏾🙏🏾
Your awesome Danny!!
watched this video to see if I did anything wrong. Which I didn't but... I would recommend setting up Transcoding to /tmp and mounting the /tmpfs in plex if you are using SSD for the app installs/metadata.
Good advice, thanks for posting it! There is lots I didn't include here just to keep things more beginner friendly but there is a lot more we could cover in a future video I'm sure!
Awesome sauce, great job
i tried to use it on my old laptop to turn it into server!
but i had a problem that the boot device (My Laptop Hdd) can't be shown in Pool options
seems that u can't choose boot Drive as a drive for the pool
hello, I have a question why I no longer have the files in my smb share that are displayed, so I can no longer add content to my nas, how to do it please?
When you say "add subnet mask", you are entering a number followed by a /16. What is the "/16" and how do I identify that for my network?
Love the videos, Can you make a tutorial for sonarr and jackett please ?
Is there a way to mount an external HD? Tried looking around to no prevail.
Thanks a lot, mate. That was really helpful. Cheers.
Thanks for commenting and watching!
Thanks :) I had to set DNS and Gateway settings bevor intsalling Plex else I got an error. Just in case someone else is struggling ;)
Thanks for watching!
I have the same issue. How do you know what DNS and Gateway to type in?
Your routers IP is usually good enough for this unless you know your network settings otherwise
@@EverythingSmartHome oh, I see. I have put some random DNS (not sure if this is ok tho) and for gateway my router's IP. It works now, just installing the plugin, thank you! = )
It's not a great idea using an external DNS server because then it won't be able to resolve internal addresses. Recommend changing it to your router if you can
very nice presentation, thank you for making this video!
Thank you, appreciate the support!
Great tutorial, thanks!
Thanks Marcin!!
Would you do a video on sonarr, radarr, jacket, and qbittorrent? ore separate videos? There are not a lot of videos showing the setup of these plugins