You will possibly need to add it to as a permanent mount point (this also means it will always be in the same location). I believe the desktop will only mount when the user is logged on - something you generally don’t do on a server. As says, there are guides to adding NTFS support, if your drive is formatted that way. I’m not sure what level of support PiOS has. Writing access was considered “experimental” with Kernel drivers. At the bottom of this file, add the following line: (Replacing YOUR IP with the IP you got from. The perfect client companion to the Plex Media Server, the Raspberry Pi mini computer becomes the perfect appliance for viewing your media on every TV in. NTFS has been read-only for over a decade, but writing files is more complicated and needed an external driver up until recently. Now that we have installed Plex to our Raspberry Pi we should make sure that we are using a static IP address. The best way would be to use FAT32, which, if the video files are large, but under 4GB, is probably the most flexible way of doing things, if you are going to use the drive with other systems, otherwise format it native Linux. Once youre done, you will be greeted by the command line interface. How are you mounting it? Have you added it to the list of mounted drives or are you relying on the desktop mounting system? The latter will only work with a logged on user, AFAIK. Raspbian OS Plex Linux Server Set up the Raspberry Pi Install Raspbian OS.

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