- #Plex media server unavailable on freenas how to#
- #Plex media server unavailable on freenas install#
- #Plex media server unavailable on freenas update#
#Plex media server unavailable on freenas install#
The time needed to install this was about 30 minutes, including the trouble-shooting. You can click on the activity button at the top right of the screen to watch the process. The initial scan will take some time, especially if you have a large library.
#Plex media server unavailable on freenas how to#
If you’ve got everything installed, you’ll see a very slick looking start screen and you will be guided through the steps of creating the media libraries.Įngadget has a good guide here describing how to configure the Plex Media Server, but to be honest, the development team at Plex have designed the web interface really well and the steps you need to take are clearly and easily presented. Normally web services run on ports 80 (http) or 443 (https), so navigating to the web interface does require you remember to manually enter the correct port. If you have set up dnsmasq with a name for the server, you can also use: The numbers after the colon ( 32400) is the number of the port that the server listens to. Replace the IP address here with your IP address Let’s Try AgainĬonnect via you web browser to the IP address of the jail you created (the address you wrote down in the first step). Plexmediaserver is running with pid: 42807 Starting # service plexmediaserver status I don’t know why this was missing, but it was an easy fix. # service plexmediaserver startĪdd the following line to the /etc/rc.conf file using echo (or you could edit the file manually also) # echo 'plexmediaserver_enable="YES"' > /etc/rc.conf (and because the correct setting in the /etc/rc.conf file wasn’t present, the start command didn’t work either). Set plexmediaserver_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or use 'onestart' instead of 'start'. # service plexmediaserver statusĬannot 'start' plexmediaserver. Using the jexec nn /bin/csh command from the FreeNas shell session I tried the service command to find the status. Once the jail had restarted, I attempted to connect to the web interface to add the media directories I had installed, but the connection kept failing. I then restarted the jail (you can add storage whilst a jail is running, so if you didn’t stop it to change the IP address, your jail will already be running). freenas# jlsĭrwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Oct 6 22:29 music/ĭrwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Oct 6 22:29 photo/ĭrwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Oct 6 22:29 video/ If you have different users with different music collections, you may want to structure this differently so that people only connect to their own collection. Find the number of the jail by using the jls command. In order for everything to appear under the /media directory, I connected to the FreeNas box and changed to the jail. However, my media files are in separate top level directories, so in order to make everything available to Plex, I needed to add several storage containers. I chose to put the files in the /media directory on the Plex jail. If you have a directory structure that has all the files in a single directory, you only need to add the top level directory as storage to the Plex server. My media is all sitting on the FreeNas, so I just need to make it available to the Plex Server. (Here’s my post on installing dnsmasq in a jail).
Because I’m using dnsmasq to provide the name services on the local network, I needed to add this jail to the list of hosts so that I can refer to it by name in any browser on the local network.Īdd to the list of hosts in the dnsmasq jail.
#Plex media server unavailable on freenas update#
Stop the jail from the dashboard, and then click on edit to update the IP address. Make a note of the IP address, you’ll need it later to connect to the web interface.
I would imagine that most people will have no issues with the default IP address etc, but I’m keeping all my media devices (TV/AV Receiver/Blu Ray/Media Servers) in a small IP range running from 192.168.10.40-49. After a couple of minutes the new plug-in jail will be created. Installation is simply done by clicking on the package and then selecting install. Plex has received a lot of good reviews and it looked like a smooth way of serving out about 100GB+ of assorted media that is sitting around on my FreeNas. (Actually there are quite a few extra plug-ins available) I was using miniDLNA on FreeNas, but several days ago I saw that the Plex media server was available as a plug-in.
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