Synology NAS Setup Guide 2022 #6 - Setting Up Plex Media Server Right First Time

Installing Plex on Synology DSM 7 Chapters
01:00 - Setting Up A Shard Folder for Plex Multimedia
03:15 - Installing the Plex Media Server Application
08:15 - Setting Up Movie, TV Shows, Music & Photos
15:15 - Enabling Hardware r Software Transcoding (Plex Pass needed for H/W)
15:50 - Enabling DLNA (local Network) Access to Your Plex NAS Library
16:40 - Updating Plex Media Server for Synology NAS DSM 7 to the Latest Version

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[gaillewis]

So glad you did this video, I am struggling with setup. Have plex server on my shield and want to use nas as a backup. I am going to start over following your video. Thank you for all you do😀

[karldavis]

This is now one of my reference videos when I need to re-configure Plex after I may have uninstalled it for some reason. Excellent stuff! Thanks

[DyslexicAnaboko]

Very helpful thank you. I have an older NAS and was waiting to save up enough to upgrade and I finally have. I am excited to put what you are showing to practice. Thanks for the confidence boost.

[ghttodefendant]

Excellent video. It allowed me to finish setting up Plex on my NAS. Iv'e now realized the dream of streaming my ripped albums to my phone. Thank you!

[hyphen]

Thank you so much. I've been looking for a longer time for a video that explains installing Plex fresh on DSM 7. All the other tutorials I found seemed to be about upgrading an older installation.

[audtechnik]

Great video! I was getting nowhere with my DSM7+Plex setup. The key was to set the correct permissions along the way as you explained. Thank you!

[BlyGilmore]

Super helpful. Got a server up and running from scratch in no time. Thanks!

[SirVG]

Thanks for your guide. I had recently changed NAS and at the same time the new one required 7.0 firmware so my Plex stopped working and I couldn't figure out why. Hit the points you mentioned and now it works again! Thank you!!

[jlgus]

Thank you much, I also had to setup a firewall rule for that port on the dsm. Seems to be working well now

[johnn]

Sweet, thank you so much for the help!

[kiwiscanfly]

If only I watched this last night!
The permissions is where I fell over, but this video saved the day.

[RJ_Cormac]

You are hitting the content hard my man! 😎🤘👍

[TVTim]

Thank you so much! I had looked all over plex help, Reddit etc and couldn't find out why my media library wasn't showing. Youtube to the rescue, as usual. I hadn't allowed Plex access via the System Internal User permission. As soon as I added this, I was able to create a new library in Plex and it was now seeing the sub folders inside my "video" shared folder. Currently scanning my library and everything is there again.

[jobhoogeboom]

Great video! just setted it up in 20 minutes :))

[guero]

Wow finally a solution to my problem thank you for your tutorial

[StratOvation]

Thanks for sharing this detailed information! I would add a suggestion to warn folks doing this to ensure their VPN is off, I struggled for an hour trying to get Plex server set up because my VPN was active.

[georgeemanson]

Thanks for this useful video. Can you tell me if there is a way to link any of these to a tv; echo show; etc to act as a monitor?

[garethcallan]

Excellent guide....but what if I'm migrating an existing Plex Set-up from a DS412+ to a DS920+? How do I make sure everything like playlistes etc are ported? Thank you.

[alex-paris]

Thank you very much, i did all but my problem is that I can see my music files through Plex, but all these files are unclickable in light grey (whatever mp3 or Flac). Thanks for your help

[MrChans_S]

Love your videos! Could you make one about Plex remote access on Synology. Having issues with that😢