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Plex brings together all the media that matters to you, organizing your personal collections alongside stellar online content, streaming music, and more, making it all look beautiful in one universal interface.

How to Installing Plex Media Server on FreeNas 11.2

The guide below is the general overview of you to install and run Please Media Server on FreeNas, I recommend watching the video below to make the instructions make sense.

Create Server and Mount Points

1. Log onto FreeNas GUI
2. Jails –> ADD –> Jail Name –> Latest Release –> Next –> DHCP Autoconfigure IPv4 –> Autoconfigure IPv6 –> Next –> Submit
3. SSH to FreeNas Server using Putty –> jls (List Jails) –> jexec # (Number of your Jail)
4. make folder in your /mnt folder ready for mount point ( e.g. mkdir /mnt/movies )
5. type exit to exit from jail
6. In FreeNas GUI Shutdown Jail
7. Add Mount Point to /mnt/movies from your FreeNas server
8. Start Jail

Installing Plex

While in your jail through SSH run the following:

To receive the newest FreeBSD packages including Plex Media Server packages run:

# pkg update 

To Install Plex (Free Version or Paid Plex Pass version)

# pkg install plexmediaserver

or

# pkg install plexmediaserver-plexpass

Checking For Updates

Here are the manual instructions on how to logon and check for Plex media server updates: 

1. SSH to your FreeNas Server and logon
2. jls (To give you a list of Jails)
3. jexec # (Number of your Jail)
4. pkg update && pkg upgrade -y (To Search for updates and install)

If there are any updates available they will be installed automatically. After any upgrade to your Plex Media Server package you must restart Plex media server service with the following for your upgrade to take affect:

# service plexmediaserver restart

or

# service plexmediaserver_plexpass restart

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Got this error when attempting to update Sonnarr installed on my FreeNas as a Jail to the latest version:

Error occurred while executing task ApplicationUpdate: ApplicationName='mono', CommandLine='--debug /tmp/nzbdrone_update/NzbDrone.Update.exe 88519 /tmp/nzbdrone_update /usr/pbi/sonarr-amd64/share/sonarr/NzbDrone.exe /data=/var/db/sonarr /nobrowser', CurrentDirectory='', Native error= Cannot find the specified file

How to Fix and Update Sonarr

1. Log onto FreeNas Gui
2. Click Plugins
3. Click Sonarr Jail
4. Open Shell Terminal
5. pkg install mono # install mono package say yes to install
6. Go back to Sonarr GUI
7. Click System –> Updates
8. Click Install next to latest version
9. Done

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I just purchased 4 x 4TB drives for my second NAS, so i created a tutorial that will walk you through using FreeNAS 11.2, creating the pool, datasets, user permissions and SAMBA windows share, I purposely show it not working so you can get an understanding how permissions work.

Video Guide

Hardware I Used

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