That way, if something truly get’s f-’d up, you can use the contents of fstab-old to restore the original settings. Run the following command to make a copy of your fstab file, as if you mess something up it will prevent your computer from starting up again. Step 2: Create a backup for the drive management file we will be changing Then, make sure you get the User ID and Group ID of that user instead for the rest of the instructions. Instead of finding the plex user, you can reconfigure Plex to use any other user on the machine. Sudo means run the following as admin, less shows the details of the response in a minimal way, /etc/passwd is the file which stores the system’s users, | means run the following command on the results of the previous command, and finally grep plex means filter the results to lines that contain the word plex… that way we don’t have to scroll through all the users on this system.
We will need these values for Step 3 and Step 4. Also, note Plex’s Home Directory where my example shows ::var/lib/plexmediaserver. You will want to note the what numbers appear where my example shows :123:456: as that will be plex’s User ID and Group ID. Which should respond with something that looks like this: plex:x:123:456::/var/lib/plexmediaserver:/bin/bash Run this command to have the system show the details for the plex user: sudo less /etc/passwd | grep plex Without giving the plex user access, it causes issues with Plex writing and doing other operations with these files. Plex Media Server has it’s own user that interacts with the shared drive, and we need to allow that user to access. Step 1: Find out the User and Group ID of the plex user Both machines have their own Reserved IP/DHCP Addresses on my local network. My specific setup is using an old-ass Intel LGA 775 Dell running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and a 4 Bay QNAP NAS that has a protected shared folder with the default properties.
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