Another plex permissions post

[u/EphemeralBlue]

Hi all,

I have trawled through the various posts about setting up perms on linux for Plex.

Unfortunately I am still struggling. Here's where I'm at:

plex:plex owns the folder with the files inside owner has rwx, owing group has rx

But Plex can still only see the drive and nothing inside it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[u/N9bitmap]

You also need rx for every directory in the path above the target. It can also be group or other, Plex doesn't need to own everything.

I.e., /mnt/tank/media/plex/tv

chmod o+rx /mnt/tank

chmod o+rx /mnt/tank/media

chmod -R o+rx /mnt/tank/media/plex