Asustor Plex Nightmare - Help Needed

[sagaris99]

Asustor AS6604T 4 bay, all set up fine.

I'm trying (and failing) to enable the Asustor as a Plex Server.

For some reason, whenever I get to the stage of assigning the plex app on the server to see it's own folders, it refuses to.

So
1. Installed Plex from Asustor App Store (as well as downloading Asustor apk from Plex and Manually Installing, no difference)
2. Create new Plex Account
3. Click on 'Your Media' - As you can see in the image Plex1, the only option I have is to 'download our free Plex Media Server software on the device where you store your media.'
4. If I click on the 'Get Plex Media Server' button, I'm redirected to Media Server Downloads | Plex Media Server for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and More where I can either download Plex for Windows (which I've done and it makes my current PC the server), or I can redownload the Asustor apk again, stuck in a loop.

I'm at a total loss.

I have a folder on the NAS called 'MOVIES', full of all the files I want to play on Plex, but the app refuses to see them, or any media on the NAS.
I can see the install of Plex created a Plex folder in the directory, with sub folders in it - see second image.

I've attempted to manually add the Plex Server on a TV App, installed Plex, logged in, manually added the server IP Address and Port, but still nothing.

Any ideas? I'm really frustrated, this was the main reason I upgraded the NAS and Plex/Asustor support is as much use as a chocolate teapot.

Is there a setting on the Asustor to enable it to be visible to the network? I've mapped shared drives already, no problem there.

Cheers

 

[next010]

On QNAP NAS you must go into the shared folder permissions after installing Plex and give the plex user account it created read permissions over the folders.

See if there is a plex user account on your shared folder permissions.

 

[deltafx]

have you added your movie folder to the library folder that's where go I have asustor as5304t

 

[deltafx]

are you manually installing plex by downloading to pc then go to app central then management then manual install

 

[sagaris99]

are you manually installing plex by downloading to pc then go to app central then management then manual install

Yes, manually installed it by downloading the apk from Plex, then app central, management, manual then upload

 

[sagaris99]

have you added your movie folder to the library folder that's where go I have asustor as5304t

Yes, but there's no clear folder to put these in, so I've put it under the plex, plex library folder

 

[sagaris99]

On QNAP NAS you must go into the shared folder permissions after installing Plex and give the plex user account it created read permissions over the folders.

See if there is a plex user account on your shared folder permissions.

Yep, double checked that Plex has read and write permissions for the entire NAS

 

[deltafx]

why is your movie folder not showing in picture 2 if you put it in library folder

 

[sagaris99]

why is your movie folder not showing in picture 2 if you put it in library folder

Took the snapshot before I put it in

I've managed to make TwonkyMedia work for now, does the same job just not a user friendly as plex.

 

[deltafx]

View attachment 1636629
should look like this

 

[next010]

Wouldn't hurt to try a reboot of the NAS just in case, something with the plex user account needs resetting.

Also Plex alternatives like Emby and Jellyfin are available on the Asustor in its app central.

 

[Pavey]

It's not an answer to your problem but i've always found the Plex forum useful when stuck. One of the Plex operatives reply pretty quickly to your post.

 

[sagaris99]

It's not an answer to your problem but i've always found the Plex forum useful when stuck. One of the Plex operatives reply pretty quickly to your post.

I'll give that a go, hopefully they don't blame it on the NAS!

 

[Sab0]

If you can't get it to work, do you have the option of installing Docker, and then a Plex container?

 

[sagaris99]

If you can't get it to work, do you have the option of installing Docker, and then a Plex container?

I'll have a look, haven't explored Docker yet, thanks for the tip