There’s no rule of thumb here, but it just makes management of your files easier. We’d recommend you have 2 separate shared folders as minimum one for Movies and another for TV Shows. Your Shared folder list will certainly be different to below, however the process will be the same. Open “Control Panel” and select “Shared Folder”. However before proceeding to open the application, perform the following changes. You need to ensure the “PlexMediaServer” user that gets created during the installation process is given the required permissions to access the media folders that stores your content.Īt this point Plex Media server would be installed on your Synology device. The next step is something new to DSM 7.0. In most cases you can leave this blank unless you want these log files to reside in a specific location.Ĭlick next and Plex server would be installed on your Synology NAS. Once the installation starts, it’ll ask you for a location for log files. Simply go into “Beta Packages” on your Synology NAS and press “Join Beta” to install the Plex Media server package on your NAS. Step by step – Setup guide Step 1 – Install packageĪt the time of writing this review the Plex package on Synology is on Beta release on DSM 7.0.
Plex provides their own library of Movies and Live TV Shows which you can watch in addition to your own library and it keeps updating often. Setting up Plex is extremely straight forward and is certainly more powerful than the Synology Video Station.
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