I’m a huge fan of virtualization and containerization (if you couldn’t tell already)! Today, we’ll walk though the various ways to install Plex step-by-step. We also see how easy it is to get Plex running on Docker and Kubernetes using Rancher.
Id for Container
Get Id and Group Id
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id yourusername
Should see something like this:
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uid=1001(technotim) gid=1001(technotim) groups=1001(technotim),27(sudo),999(docker)
Mount Shares During Boot
Install cifs-utils
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sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
Create credentials files for share
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sudo nano /home/technotim/.smbcredentials
Set permissions
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chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials
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username=yourUsyourusernameername
password=yourPassword
Edit /etc/fstab
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//192.168.0.22/plex_media/movies /mnt/movies cifs credentials=/home/technotim/.smbcredentials 0 0
//192.168.0.22/plex_media/music /mnt/music cifs credentials=/home/technotim/.smbcredentials 0 0
Then reboot or
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sudo mount -a
to mount
Links
⚙️ See all the hardware I recommend at https://l.technotim.live/gear
🚀 Don’t forget to check out the 🚀Launchpad repo with all of the quick start source files