Of course, my first port of call was to see if somebody else had tried doing this before. “I didn’t fail, I found 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb” Thomas A. I’d heard of unRAID users using various plugins and ‘Dockers’ and this all seemed very nice to me but I continued using Windows because I didn’t want to fix what wasn’t broken (Boy… If only I always thought like that 😉 I rarely leave anything alone just because it’s “working” everything can be improved with some healthy tinkering! And when I mess up? Well then I’ve learned how not to do something) 1 for Plex and 1 for my NAS, which was a complete waste TBH! (So my Films and TV episodes all reside on user shares accessible via SMB / Samba / CIFS) And, as I said here in my trip from FreeNAS to unRAID, I had 2 separate servers. After my lovely adventure moving from FreeNAS to unRAID I tried to figure this out and ended up spending about a 100 years trying to accomplish it! I wasn’t as competent with Linux back then as I am now (and I’ve still got a ways to go!) But with the help of a friendly redditer, I got it figured out in the end.

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