Plex Camera Upload Permission Denied

[Guinea]

I am trying to set up Plex to allow for Camera Upload from my phone to perform backups of my photos for my wife and I. We have Plex configured on a jail. The dataset for Plex is owned by root/wheel by default right now. We are logged in to the storage on my Windows 10 machine as root to map it as a network drive. But even with that, I am unable to create folders or modify anything there.

For Plex, I noticed in the log files that the Plex app on my phone is successfully uploading the files to a /tmp/ directory but then failing to copy them over to the actual library which is configured as /media/ on the jail. It is giving a permission denied. The media directory is owned by root/wheel as well. I tried to give the Photos library the 777 permissions via chmod, but get permission denied as well...even as root in the shell. I am very confused by this....

Is there a way to allow plex to have full read/write access to anything in that jail? Is there also a way to grant my Windows 10 PC full read/write access to any of my data storage volumes too? I would like to avoid any future permission issues. I am not that worried about safety, since everything is local to my network anyways. I would like things to just be simple to maintain.

 

[kdragon75]

Keep in mind the jail root is not the same as root. Jails maintain separate users but you can still map permissions by user/group ID numbers if I recall. Review the permissions outside of the jail. If still stuck search the forum for Plex or Transmission permissions. There are lots of topics about it.

 

[Guinea]

I ended up blowing away my existing jail and following this install guide and everything was perfect.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-11-0-jail.19412/

Must have been something quirky with my original user permissions.

 

[kdragon75]

I'm glad you got it working.