Plex not allowing me to add a movie

[Tedstonegenious]

So when I follow the tutorial. I get the "browse for media files" button. But that button leads to a directory that is NOTHING like what I am expecting. it is running through a docker on unraid and the movies and whatnot I want it to stream is in a share called "movies"

[BrinkGG]

38 minutes ago, Tedstonegenious said:

So when I follow the tutorial. I get the "browse for media files" button. But that button leads to a directory that is NOTHING like what I am expecting. it is running through a docker on unraid and the movies and whatnot I want it to stream is in a share called "movies"

Does it look like this? 

 

If it's similar to freenas, the "Mnt" folder there gets you to your drives. 

Sorry, I don't have a lot of experience with Unraid, just Freenas and Proxmox. 

 

edit: Media gets you to shared folders on mounting folders in the docker containter iirc.

[2FA]

What did you map your plex share to in the config? For example, these are my directories mapped:

 

The directory on the left is what the Plex container sees and the directories on the right are the actual paths on the unRAID box.

[Tedstonegenious]

The defaults? How do you change them.

On 9/15/2019 at 7:00 PM, 2FA said:

What did you map your plex share to in the config? For example, these are my directories mapped:

 

The directory on the left is what the Plex container sees and the directories on the right are the actual paths on the unRAID box.

 

[Tedstonegenious]

On 9/15/2019 at 6:27 PM, BrinkGG said:

Does it look like this? 

 

If it's similar to freenas, the "Mnt" folder there gets you to your drives. 

Sorry, I don't have a lot of experience with Unraid, just Freenas and Proxmox. 

 

edit: Media gets you to shared folders on mounting folders in the docker containter iirc.

Yup, basically

[2FA]

8 hours ago, Tedstonegenious said:

The defaults? How do you change them.

 

It doesn't autofill the fields so you entered something. Changing the maps after the fact is easy though. You click once on the Plex icon in the Docker section to bring up a context menu and then select edit. Then you can click on the mapped paths to change them, for example:

That shows the directory structure I can dig through to select the path I want to use. I have my Plex share mount to /media in the container and those directories in the Plex share will be directly accessible inside the container, so I would go to /media/movies, for example to create a movie library in the Plex software.