Normally symbolic links ('symlinks') are quite transparent to applications in Linux (that's the whole point), but in the case of running Plex on an unRAID server, we have an additional challenge: Plex is running in a Docker container. That's it! Symbolic Links with Docker Containers Just create a symbolic link for each individual directory or video you want to share. The above path in the can be either a directory or a video file itself. Then just execute the following command: ln -s. Just create your new library directory and navigate to it in a terminal. not running in a Docker container), creating a symbolic link is pretty straightforward. If your Plex Media Server is a normal install (i.e. So yes, we do still have to create a new library to share with users, but the good news is that we can do this all without having to make a duplicate of the file and taking up valuable storage space! Creating a Symbolic Link This means that to share specific content with users, all we have to do is create a library folder specific to that user and place a bunch of symbolic links in it referencing the content in the libraries we have stored already. I'll do another tutorial on what a symbolic link actually is in the future, but for now, think of them as Unix's version of a shortcut- it merely points to the filename of another file located somewhere else. Well, thankfully, there's a way around that. One of which is that you can't share individual videos with your friends or family- you have to give them access to the entire library! It's even worse if you have kids and all of your movie content is stored under a single 'Movies' library: 'Saving Private Ryan' is going to be right next to 'Tangled'.

By now you've discovered some of the many shortcomings of Plex.

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