Installing Plex in Proxmox CT with NFS Share

My goal was to install plex on an Ubunut 18.04 container while using my Synology NAS and and NFS Share to host my Plex media. I had some trouble initially with bind mounting the share and also with user permissions to the subfolders but we figure it out.

##Helpful Commands

#Update everything first

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

#Bind Mount

cd /etc/pve/lxc

mp0: SOURCE, mp=TARGET

mp0: /mnt/pve/synology/plex,mp=/mnt/synology/plex

#Install plex

dpkg -i plexmediaserver*.deb

#Enable Startup

#Apt Update automatically

dpkg -L plexmediaserver

apt-get install gnupg

apt update

[HandF]

Thank you very much! I spent hours on this. You helped me fix it in 5 min

[jaxwylde]

Thanks for this. Have done the same and it works great. Running plex inside docker container, inside proxmox LXC. I got this to work with unprivileged container as well, using the same instructions you provided. The solution (for me, anyway) was to ensure that container's Options/Features has both the Nesting and Keyctl boxes checked.

[jocelyn-n-tech]

Man this video really helped me solve the permissions issue with the plex server not being able to see the media folders!! Thank you so much!!

[wayneclements]

Thanks mate, one of the few video's with a full guide to how to do stuff, again thanks a lot !!!!

[mauriciolazo]

Boom! you just showed what I've been looking for months! Thank you very much!

[argomedoreds]

You help me a lot.

I was stuck on the Plex permissions to the shared folders on NFS over synology. Now i add permissions to everyone to read and it was solved.

Plex can't access to those files, only root can. You save me a lot of search. THANK YOU dude.

[WJSchmitt]

I got hung up on the user permissions too. Should have watched the video until the end. All good now. Thanks for the tutorial.

[mandeepmails]

your CTRL+0 inside nano editor when editing the "container_id.conf" file...did the trick for me. Also Thanks a ton for putting your audio in it. Appreciate your demo. It was helpful.
God Bless you Bro.

[micha]

Thank You, I was uisng this tutorial to install plex inside CT with turnkey-nexcloud

[morowx]

I got error while trying to mount the network share (CIFS) from Synology. "
create storage failed: error with cfs lock 'file-storage_cfg': mount error: Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) (500)". Could you please advice how did you mount the network share?

[DonMacKenzie]

How do I make the mounted cifs writeable? I have plex DVR and recordings fail with error No write access to disk.

[carlosroldao]

Hi, @TrillasAdventures

Revisiting this video. I'm trying a similar setup and having the same trouble with the Synology folder visibility in Plex. I see you have a group called 'Everyone' - how do the permissions look inside the group? I've tried anything possible, gave all the accesses possible and I still can't make Plex see the sub-folders inside Synology.
Thanks!

[Harry_See]

This worked for me, thanks!
How would you backup just the plex library from a proxmox lxc? I want to move it to a different container or possibly a VM but I can't for the life of me find the library file.

[klaboem]

Thanks for the video. How does it perform though? Like with the transcoding and stuff?

[marine]

I there thank for your video. do have usb stora how can I use it on a container for plex?

[sgtpepperaut]

I was a little skeptical when the guy said hes gonna add 20 gigaBITS of Ram.... but hey turns out this was just was i was looking for.

[SpareSomeChange]

Would this have hardware encoding from the iGPU too?

[HeinischJohannes]

hi! first of all thanks for your video. that helped me to install plex locally in proxmox. everything works until i log in to plex ip:32000.. setup. I did not get the window to add my local media files. I always get the message "media server not found, install plex media server". but the server is running. maybe you can help me? thank you ...