How To: Create Plex Media Server on TrueNAS / FreeNAS to watch your media ANYWHERE

This tutorial goes over how to setup a Plex Media Server on TrueNAS CORE. This allows you to easily watch all of the media stored on your TrueNAS server from anywhere! It has an awesome user interface which makes watching your messy library incredibly easy.

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[dylaneagles]

Omg thank you thank you thank YOUUU! I've been racking my brain for a week trying to figure out why my Plex server wouldn't see my media. It's because I created my pool long before I started looking and Plex plug-in setup tutorials. Your very quick mention of creating a data set as SMB vs the default completely enabled me to actually load media on my mini datacenter. You sir, have changed my life. Unfortunately I had to delete my data set to change it. I'm not good with the command line for TrueNAS jails and I was very tired of searching Google for one day.

[lastsonofthewest]

Great video, helped me complete my first TrueNas Core, driven very well by an Intel i5 12400. All NVMe Gen 4 build, it flies and the 10GbE Chelsio cards are easily saturated. The problems began with my QNAP 672XT's jealousy. I call her Q-Queen, and, well, I hate to brag, but she LOVES me. The cost of that LOVE, is, like anything else that looks good but makes you bleed financially, is that it requires attention. As I crafted my TrueNas box, I could hear the 6 Ironwolf Pro drives in the Qnap beginning to grind, and head slap. Imperceptible at first, but then the temps went way up, and files began to disappear. For those unfamiliar, this Qnap model has speakers in it, and I could swear, as I fondled the TrueNAS in my other server room, the QNAP was screaming "F You A-Hole" over its tinny voice! One night, I slept with the TrueNAS. It just...happened. As I got up to make my new love a cup of coffee (I call her TrueDatNasUp), the QNAP flung one of the piddly NVMe cache drives at me. It flew 25 ft. She looked, MAD. Where once she was simple, and rectangular, her veins bulged and pulsed with IOPs. This QNAP was trying to hurt me. Long story short, I bought a new house, smashed the QNAP to pieces with a sledgehammer and an axe.

I find myself looking around though, in data centers. Hell hat no fury like a NAS scorned.

[dongryphon]

Really appreciate all your great context. This could do with an update now that Plex is in "Apps"

[jesusesparza]

Thanks my guy, my plex messed up for some reason and had to re install it, you tutorial really helped me out again.

[derinvanderspoel]

THANK YOU! Adding the User 972 solved my problem of not being able to see my sub folders in Media on Plex. Spent hours trying to figure out why I couldn't see them.

[markjones]

I have no idea where you live but when I listen to you all I can think of is SNL "The Californians". lol Your videos are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[njmnyc]

Definitely the cutest geek on YouTube. Came for the tech, stayed for the adorable guy 😄

[ManuelOrtizDFWRealtor]

Great Video. Simple in a kind of complex subject for rookies like me. I tried another video before and It didn't work well. Thanks a lot for taking the time to do these kind of videos. Congratulations

[TheBeardedLibertarian]

I added some sub-directories to my media mainly for Movies, TVShow and Music. took a second to figure out how to change the mount points in the jail so that Plex sees them.... just add them by typing the name in on the destination path... duh. Plex will create the sub-directories and when you restart the jail you will now be able to map to the different things in Plex :)

[JTCgmail]

I know this is by far the better explained Plex Setups for TruNAS. the parts of the 972 user add was never explained in others videos. I now have my PLEX Server working well.

[SoumyadiptoGhose]

Loved your video... you actually addressed the all permission part... 3rd video of yours I saw to solve the issue.. :)

[pourwithellie]

You have helped us so much setting up our server, thank you so much!! VERY informative videos!!

[TheWolfster]

What I would love to see is a setup, "for dummies".. Complete step by step.. adding people, how to access the files.. What you can and can't do.. Like watch videos you may have on one of the hard drives, view pictures and so on.. To many you tubers expect people to be very computer savvy, most people, know enough to shop, go to social media and that's about it...

[aeiplanner]

It is good practice to store iocage on a separate SSD to take advantage of the speed SSD affords for your database and Metadata, and have it point to the actual media/data files on your RAIDZ pool.

[sirrpirate]

How would you setup this method for other plugins? Like qBittorrent? I installed it, Added the mount point, configured the permissions. But when I tested downloading a file. It only shows within the jail space not my TrueNAS volume.

[larsthorwald]

I still haven't heard one good reason to install this thing on a home NAS. My TrueNAS NFS shares are available to every node on the LAN, so access isn't an issue; neither my 'smart TV' nor my phone has ever had a problem with file playback from attached storage when offline (VLC for Android is solid, and all my IoT devices are kept isolated on a separate physical network). Plex seems like another 'solution in search of a problem.' This is all apart from the obvious security question: why would I want to expose my media archive to 3rd party snoop-ware? Plex is giving me a slick GUI and pretty thumbnail icons for my movie titles, but what am I giving Plex?

[KrakPoT]

Would love is you could do this for the new Truenas scale

[HARLANP]

Great tutorial!
What was the url for the page with Server Setup?
Safari doesn't show it in the video and my Plex web portal just asks me to download Plex. I'm hitting it via the IP. I verified my account. I think my next step is to reboot my system.

[neccros]

I tried this but I cant point Plex server to a folder in my dataset with my movies in it.

[JoMiller]

I've been running Plex off of a windows 11 machine and just using my FreeNAS for file serving for several years now. I do GPU transcoding now but I was wondering, how good is the transcoding if I change over to CPU and host Plex from my FreeNAS machine since I can't put my GTX card in the server. I'd love to just simplify my environment thus why I'm looking into the change. If you were able to tell me how well Transcoding works from the CPU and FreeNAS, I'd really appreciate it.