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    Setting Up Samba for Use with Plex (CentOS 7.2 Minimal)

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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender
      last edited by Dashrender

      LOL, what's with the next page pointing to the left instead of the typical right?

      1pIaT6Z.png

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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        @Dashrender weird

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          marcinozga @JaredBusch
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          @JaredBusch said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

          @marcinozga said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

          @JaredBusch said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

          @scottalanmiller said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

          @marcinozga said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

          I find this guide really confusing. Plex installation should boil down to downloading package with wget and installing it with yum.

          You probably don't need wget, you might be able to install it directly. Often that is the case.

          I agree, this is really a guide to installing nano and Samba, not Plex.

          They bit about transferring the Plex install just comes down to his admitted inexperience with Linux.

          The document as it stands is decent. @wirestyle22 missed a little formatting and needs to retitle it setting up samba for use with Plex.

          But that's the wrong way of working with Plex. Here's a guide of doing it the right way:

          https://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started

          It's a guide for Windows, but installation on Linux is very similar. Just ignore the author's statement that Plex is optimized to run on Windows, it's not. Plex server will run on anything, Plex client was build for Mac first, Windows came later.

          This guide is no different it has little to do with setting up Plex.

          how is this the wrong way of working with Plex? There is nothing here about working with Plex beyond installing it.

          You said it, title should be setting up samba for use with Plex. Beyond initial media upload to Plex server, which is much more efficient with ftp anyway, there is no need to use samba at all. Adding media to Plex should be automated, and this is where Couchpotato and the likes comes into play.

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          • StrongBadS
            StrongBad
            last edited by

            Now that this has derailed, as the issue been looking into any further? What is the next step there?

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            • wirestyle22W
              wirestyle22 @JaredBusch
              last edited by wirestyle22

              @JaredBusch That is helpful. So if I'm understanding this correctly, making the directory in root is the issue. I should delete it and then mkdir /home/samba, correct? I basically chose the wrong partition. Is there any way to expand root or is that not a great solution?

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates @wirestyle22
                last edited by

                @wirestyle22 said in Setting Up Samba for Use with Plex (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

                @JaredBusch That is helpful. So if I'm understanding this correctly, making the directory in root is the issue. I should delete it and then mkdir /home/samba, correct? I basically chose the wrong partition right? Is there any way to expand root or is that not a great solution?

                You could do that but a better option would be to resize the /home volume and create another volume for the media.

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                • stacksofplatesS
                  stacksofplates
                  last edited by

                  Another thing to mention,

                  chcon -t samba_share_t /samba
                  

                  This does not permanently change the context type. You will want this:

                  semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t "/samba(/.*)?"
                  

                  Then do

                  restorecon -R /samba
                  

                  This will survive a filesystem relabel.

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                  • wirestyle22W
                    wirestyle22 @stacksofplates
                    last edited by wirestyle22

                    @stacksofplates Very helpful. How would I go about performing the actual resize? I have never done that before.

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                    • travisdh1T
                      travisdh1 @wirestyle22
                      last edited by

                      @wirestyle22 said in Setting Up Samba for Use with Plex (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

                      @stacksofplates Very helpful. How would I go about performing the actual resize? I have never done that before.

                      Is it actually mounted anywhere yet? Could you show us?

                      df -h
                      

                      Might just need to change the mount point from /home.

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                      • wirestyle22W
                        wirestyle22
                        last edited by

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                        • travisdh1T
                          travisdh1 @wirestyle22
                          last edited by

                          @wirestyle22 said in Setting Up Samba for Use with Plex (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

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                          Yep, you just need to change the line in /etc/fstab that starts

                          /dev/mapper/centos-home /home
                          

                          to

                          /dev/mapper/centos-home /home/samba
                          

                          Sure, you could resize the partition, but if the box isn't used for anything else it won't cause a problem. /home is normally put on it's own partition to keep users from bringing the OS down due to running out of drive space. If users aren't going to be using anything but the samba share, then that's not going to become an issue.

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                          • wirestyle22W
                            wirestyle22 @travisdh1
                            last edited by

                            @travisdh1 Thanks! Testing in a minute.

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                            • travisdh1T
                              travisdh1 @travisdh1
                              last edited by

                              @travisdh1 I might rename the logical volume as well, make sure to unmount /home first.

                              umount /home
                              lvrename /dev/centos/home /dev/centos/samba
                              mount -a
                              
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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1 @travisdh1
                                last edited by

                                @travisdh1 I'm going to fast while multi-tasking tonight, can you tell? Don't forget to put the correct path in /etc/fstab if you rename the logical volume.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  You are going to fast? Religious thing?

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                                  • travisdh1T
                                    travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Setting Up Samba for Use with Plex (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

                                    You are going to fast? Religious thing?

                                    Weight loss 😉

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @travisdh1
                                      last edited by

                                      @travisdh1 said in Setting Up Samba for Use with Plex (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Setting Up Samba for Use with Plex (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

                                      You are going to fast? Religious thing?

                                      Weight loss 😉

                                      I've had nothing but salads and beer today.

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                                      • wirestyle22W
                                        wirestyle22 @travisdh1
                                        last edited by wirestyle22

                                        @travisdh1 So I did that as seen below, but I'm still running into that space issue. It's putting everything into the root folder. I'm sure this is something obvious but I'm not seeing it. Any ideas?

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                                        • travisdh1T
                                          travisdh1 @wirestyle22
                                          last edited by

                                          @wirestyle22 We have to figure out where the files are going then, since they are not going into /home/samba like we thought. 'du -h' is what I'd use for this, it will show you the amount of storage used in the current directory and sub-directories.

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                                          • wirestyle22W
                                            wirestyle22 @travisdh1
                                            last edited by wirestyle22

                                            @travisdh1 Figured it out. Thanks!

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