


(web GUI) Access Rights Management > Shared Folders > Add > Give it a name, select the volume, the path will auto populate, and don't touch, just verify that "Others" have at a minimum read access to this directory in the Permissions > Save > Applyĩ) Assuming your planning on using Windows to upload the media and stream it via Plex Media Server, don't forget to enable SMB/CIFS sharing. All the important stuff is in there to make the magic happen.Ĩ ) Okay so now that it's installed let's create a shared folder. DO NOT install anything within this folder, think of it as the equivalent to "C:\Program Files" on windows. Physical Disks: (4) 1 TB HDDs & (1) 120 GB SSDįilesystem: OMV v.1.19 (Kralizec) OS on SSD and RAID10 on remaining HDDsġ) (via web GUI) System > Update Manager > Check (button) > Select All > UpgradeĢ) Download the omv-extras plugin to your local PC > (web GUI) System > Plugins > Upload (button) > select the newly downloaded *.deb file.ģ) (web GUI) System > Plugins > openmediavault-omvextras 1.29 (check button) > Install > Yes > DoneĤ) (web GUI) System > enable Plex (check button) > Save > Apply > Yesĥ) (web GUI) System > Plugins > Multimedia (section) > enable openmediavault-plexmediaserver 1.0.12 (check button) > Install > Yes > Close > OkĦ) (web GUI) Services > Plex Media Server > select your database volume (mine was my RAID array), select the Enable (button) > Save > Applyħ) Your Database folder will be updated from the /var/lib/plexmediaserver to /media/UUID/plexmediaserver This folder is the root directory for the Plex Media Server application. These are parameters that are unique to my configuration, if you see these please replace with you appropriate information. So having nothing else working on the OMV server I reinstalled OMV OS (plus I was running into a wall where the PlexMediaServer appeared to have a corrupt database?, anywho) and figured I'd document my attempt from the get go.
