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I've just set up a raspberry pi at home as a plex server. I don't want to use external USB storage for the media, ideally I'd like to use a network drive located on a netbook I run on my home network running on Ubunut. I've created a folder on the netbook and shared it with the network using samba, how would I go about mounting this on the raspberry pi and using it as a media storage that the plex server streams from?

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You can mount the Samba drive via CIFS using the /etc/fstab config file.
Is more or less explained here: https://askubuntu.com/a/313389/196366

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Ans add some like:

//192.168.0.5/storage /media/plesk/ cifs guest,uid=myuser,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm 0 0

Where:

  • //192.168.0.5/storage is the Samba IP and folder
  • /media/plesk/ is the local folder you need to create to mount the Samba storage
  • uid=myuser is the local user or your Raspberry Pi, maybe "pi"
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