Accessing external media locations using WDMyCloud Plex

My Cloud OS 5 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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Server Version#: 1.25.8.5663
WDMyCloud#: MyCloud Single Bay

I am trying to use external media sources (USB drives attached to router) as media sources for WDMyCloud Plex set up, stumped as how the paths are designed. From what I have been reading one may have to mount the network locations using shell commands? Any information will be appreciated. My background in in windows networks.

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Generally yes you will, using SSH, have to mount, on the My Cloud, the USB drive share on the router for Plex to see and access the Share. It would generally go something like this if the My Cloud supports the Mount command.

One would start, using SSH, by creating a directory on the My Cloud that will be used to mount the Share from the router. Then issue the proper mount command. Then setup (if possible) fstab to mount the Share at My Cloud boot/reboot. Then Plex should be able to access that directory with the mounted Share and use it in it’s media library. I’ve never tried this on a My Cloud. When I ran Plex on a PI I did something like the following, unknown if it would work on a My Cloud:

Create folder for NAS mapping:
sudo mkdir Music

Set ownership of the folder:
sudo chown -R $USER Music

Mount remote device share:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=<name>,password=<password> //<remove device IP address>/Music Music

Create plex user on the remote device containing the Share. Give full read/write access to relevant shares or give read only to shares where you don’t want Plex to be able to delete files.

sudo nano /etc/plex.cred
username=pi
password=12345678

Mount at boot/reboot:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
//<remote device IP address>/music /path/on/mycloud/music cifs auto,defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=5,credentials=/etc/plex.cred,uid=plex,vers=1.0 0 0

There are plenty of “how-to” guides for what Linux commands to issue when it comes to mounting a Share on Linux. However with OS5 and its custom nature its possible certain commands or options may not work or be available. One uses the above example Linux commands at their own risk!!!

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Understood. Thanks for the support.

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Thanks a lot for the clarification here!