

Most Plex clients are free to download, though some require you to purchase the Plex Pass in order to install them. Roku users can download the Plex client through their respective app stores. If you have a home media server, you can watch your Plex content on a variety of devices. However, you’ll need to keep in mind the associated costs. Once you’ve logged in, you’ll be able to view media stored on the Plex server. You’ll be prompted to enter your user name and password. Once you’ve done that, you can use the app to access your content. Once you have set up your Plex server, you will need to sign up for an account with the network provider. The Android app for Plex is not complete without the Plex server. This leaves Kodi as the best option if you want the full media server experience on Android. However, this feature only applies to content that is streamed from Plex, not to files stored on the device. The latter allows other Plex apps to stream your content. The Plex client for Android has two features, Share and Advertise as server. What is Media Server on My Android Phone?.How Do I Set up a DLNa Server on Android?.What Kind of Server Do I Need For Plex?.Is there something I'm doing wrong with mounting the network share? or somewhere else I'm going wrong, I hope I've been clear enough with my problem. It can "see" the network share /*NAS-IP */Media but not the sub folders for the specific media types, yet I can see them in Ubuntu Files. I don't think I'm too far wrong as I can see the network share in the Files directory and relevant subfolders and access my media from there, and the mount persists after reboot, where I run into trouble is trying to add libraries on Plex server. Where *NAS-IP * is the ip address of the NAS, Media being a folder with subdirectories for movies/music etc, *user * is just my ubuntu username.

*NAS-IP*/Media /media/*user*/NAS cifs credentials=/home/*user*/password,iocharset=utf8 0 0 I have cifs-utils installed, I have added the following line to /etc/fstab I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 in a virtualbox to test out my use cases before taking the plunge and installing it on my machine, trying to get plex server configured to communicate with my Asustor NAS and running into some issues.
