Hello All,
I have a situation that I have not been able to resolve or know if it can be the way I want. I have installed Freenas 11.2 and running Plex in a jail successfully. I have the local storage working properly and using SAMBA to copy files to the dataset. But what I would also like to do in Plex is do what I was able to do when I was running Plex server on my Windows PC before, which was by mapping a drive on the PC to the readynas that is used only for storage.
Since Plex is installed in a jail and the mounted datasets are the only accessible directories in Plex Server I am not able to do what I was accustomed to doing before inside of Plex's 'Add Folder' under Movies or TV Shows, for example " //readynas/videos/movies" I was wanting or hoping to continue to use the readynas as another storage device and let Plex access it and the local datasets on the Freenas simultaneously (like I could do on the Windows Plex Media Server. I am just not sure how to do this or if it is possible since "mapping a drive" is not an option on Freenas. I suspect I might be able to do a symlink or bind-link and then add that to the mount in the jail. But I am not quite sure how to do this. Am I not seeing the best way to do this?
I know most would say just use the one data source that being on freenas but I am not ready to let the 4 TB I have on the readynas go or transferring it over to start eating up my Freenas storage. Thank you and I look forward to any assistance and appreciate all the help and guidance these forums have already provided with my installs so far.
I have a situation that I have not been able to resolve or know if it can be the way I want. I have installed Freenas 11.2 and running Plex in a jail successfully. I have the local storage working properly and using SAMBA to copy files to the dataset. But what I would also like to do in Plex is do what I was able to do when I was running Plex server on my Windows PC before, which was by mapping a drive on the PC to the readynas that is used only for storage.
Since Plex is installed in a jail and the mounted datasets are the only accessible directories in Plex Server I am not able to do what I was accustomed to doing before inside of Plex's 'Add Folder' under Movies or TV Shows, for example " //readynas/videos/movies" I was wanting or hoping to continue to use the readynas as another storage device and let Plex access it and the local datasets on the Freenas simultaneously (like I could do on the Windows Plex Media Server. I am just not sure how to do this or if it is possible since "mapping a drive" is not an option on Freenas. I suspect I might be able to do a symlink or bind-link and then add that to the mount in the jail. But I am not quite sure how to do this. Am I not seeing the best way to do this?
I know most would say just use the one data source that being on freenas but I am not ready to let the 4 TB I have on the readynas go or transferring it over to start eating up my Freenas storage. Thank you and I look forward to any assistance and appreciate all the help and guidance these forums have already provided with my installs so far.