Let me start saying that I am new to FreeNAS and that I am an old dog who is trying to learn new tricks as the last time I thouch a computer for other thing than just regular google searches and social media was on 2005, So I got pretty rusted. On top of that, the last time I did something serius like this on 2005, I was on a country whit almost no internet conection and most of the learning was done thrught books, asking teachers and maybe getting lucky and someone was able to search on google, so this is my first time on a community that I might be able to get asnwers, so please forgive me if I am not elloquent on what I am saying and I will try to be as explicit as posible as I have to other barrier of the leguaje, as english is not my first.
I have being collecting movies for years but I have being either burning them on to s DVD or copying it on a flash drive to play it on my xbox, that has being the most complicated thing I have done for years, abut tree months a go a decided that I wanted a better solution and I just want to see what is on my computer right away on my tv. I start playing with "universal media player" witch is a DNLA but it works for a couple hours and then just stops for no reason and then I couldn't make it work, so I start researching and long story short and came to this FreeNAS community because there is a lot of people talking about how great plex is and how great FreeNAS is as well, so I start learning a researching. I run into a lot of problems by not researching about hardware as I just though everything should be strait forward as a regular computer is, but big mistake.
I have a Dell PowerEdge r510 eight bay with 2 xeons, 64gb of ecc ram, 8 2tb HDD's and a SLI 9211 that was a pain to get it flash as this server came with a h700. I have being fighting for over a month already with the hardware and I think I am done whit that part and I was able to figure everything my self. Now this is where I have find a brick wal, on setting plex up.
I am able to created a pool, datasheet, user account and samba runing and am able to put movies on the datasheet, it was hard and dificult to learn but I was able to do it, but now plex it seems like it doesnt want to cooperate. I installed the plugin, create my plex account but when adding the mounting point it will just not let me choose it on the library, regardless if I choose a empty folder right away or if I create one just by adding "/Movies" on a folder when making the mounting point or by using SSH and conecting from a shell and creating the empty folder by hand, it is always unable to be selected so I am giving up by now on this FreeNAS nightmare.
I am atachign a picture so you can see how it looks on my end the folder, unable and not letting me click it to choose it. As far as I have being reading and seeing o videos, there is no permitions I have to give plex, I far as I see the user we create and then give permitions on the datasheet is just to be able to conect from the computer to drop the files, I thought this unablelign it could be a permitions issue but I don't seem to find how to give plex the permitions of the user I created that allows me to conect throught the computer and transfer the files.
any help will be greatly apprecciated.
I have being collecting movies for years but I have being either burning them on to s DVD or copying it on a flash drive to play it on my xbox, that has being the most complicated thing I have done for years, abut tree months a go a decided that I wanted a better solution and I just want to see what is on my computer right away on my tv. I start playing with "universal media player" witch is a DNLA but it works for a couple hours and then just stops for no reason and then I couldn't make it work, so I start researching and long story short and came to this FreeNAS community because there is a lot of people talking about how great plex is and how great FreeNAS is as well, so I start learning a researching. I run into a lot of problems by not researching about hardware as I just though everything should be strait forward as a regular computer is, but big mistake.
I have a Dell PowerEdge r510 eight bay with 2 xeons, 64gb of ecc ram, 8 2tb HDD's and a SLI 9211 that was a pain to get it flash as this server came with a h700. I have being fighting for over a month already with the hardware and I think I am done whit that part and I was able to figure everything my self. Now this is where I have find a brick wal, on setting plex up.
I am able to created a pool, datasheet, user account and samba runing and am able to put movies on the datasheet, it was hard and dificult to learn but I was able to do it, but now plex it seems like it doesnt want to cooperate. I installed the plugin, create my plex account but when adding the mounting point it will just not let me choose it on the library, regardless if I choose a empty folder right away or if I create one just by adding "/Movies" on a folder when making the mounting point or by using SSH and conecting from a shell and creating the empty folder by hand, it is always unable to be selected so I am giving up by now on this FreeNAS nightmare.
I am atachign a picture so you can see how it looks on my end the folder, unable and not letting me click it to choose it. As far as I have being reading and seeing o videos, there is no permitions I have to give plex, I far as I see the user we create and then give permitions on the datasheet is just to be able to conect from the computer to drop the files, I thought this unablelign it could be a permitions issue but I don't seem to find how to give plex the permitions of the user I created that allows me to conect throught the computer and transfer the files.
any help will be greatly apprecciated.