It has only worked for me when I add their Plex applications to my smartphones, Roku, smart blu-ray player, etc. Plex is a really nice media server, but I have never been able to get it to work with generic DLNA/ UPnP applications or devices regardless of the firewall.

I usually will rename them to identify the drive and its folder(s) like my external 1tb WD Blue drive (NTFS) will have a videos folder of 'blue-videos', my external 1tb WD grey drive (NTFS) will have a videos folder 'grey-videos', my Patriot 480gb SSD drive (Linux ext4 and NTFS) will have '/480gb-videos', etc.Īlso, it is not IMHO a good idea to keep the UFW firewall disabled except when trying to determine if the firewall is a problem with certain application(s) or functions. So if that is the case, you may consider renaming those folders. NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager - Linux Mint ForumsĪnother 'quirk' I noticed with some media servers including the one I use 'UMS (Universal Media Server)' is they sometimes get confused if you have folders with the same name like multiple '/Videos' or '/Movies' folders. The post below has easy to use instructions for changing or creating drive mounts and works with any installed file system not just NTFS. Then, the media servers have no problem accessing those drivers and their folders. that if you want to add media (videos, music, pics) that are not in local drive folders but on external 'other' drives, that you may have to change their mounting point from the Linux Mint default (example: /media/phd21/5D89930762BDF832/videos-128gb) to another folder like '/mnt'. I found out with most media servers like Plex, Kodi, Emby, etc. I just read your post and the good replies to it.

Plex media server not showing library