<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Phill Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">philledwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr"><span class=""><br>
Have you tried copying a recording and renaming it to something that should work, and seeing if Plex indexes that? At least that would rule out the symlink piece.<br>
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Yes, I've created a new folder and copied recordings to it and they showed up in Plex. So I'm pretty sure it's a problem with links.</p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm just reading the tail end of this thread, but I use <a href="http://mythlink.pl">mythlink.pl</a> (with symlinks) to make my recordings available to Plex. It wasn't readily clear if you were serving Plex from Linux or Windows, but in the Samba config for your Linux share you'll need to add options to allow the share to follow symlinks, and if the link destination is on a different filesystem than your share, you'll need to add an option for that too.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For example, I call mythlink.sh as:</div><div class="gmail_extra">/usr/local/bin/<a href="http://mythlink.pl">mythlink.pl</a> --link /mnt/plex-tv --format %U/%T/%T\ -\ %oY-%om-%od\ -\ %S<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Which makes my recordings from /mnt/video and /mnt/video2 appear in /mnt/plex-tv. Files are dated with their original air time and episode name:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">khanh@tv:/mnt/plex-tv/Default/Modern Family$ ll</div><div class="gmail_extra">total 8</div><div class="gmail_extra">drwxrwxr-x 2 khanh khanh 4096 Nov 13 16:01 ./</div><div class="gmail_extra">drwxrwxr-x 66 khanh khanh 4096 Nov 13 16:01 ../</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 45 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-04-02 - A Hard Jay's Night.mpg -> /mnt/video2/recording/1707_20140904020000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 45 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-04-23 - Australia.mpg -> /mnt/video2/recording/1707_20140904023000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 45 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-04-30 - Sleeper.mpg -> /mnt/video2/recording/1707_20140911010000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 45 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-05-07 - Message Received.mpg -> /mnt/video2/recording/1707_20140911013100.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 45 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-05-14 - The Wedding, Part 1.mpg -> /mnt/video2/recording/1707_20140918010000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 44 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-09-24 - The Long Honeymoon.mpg -> /mnt/video/recording/1707_20140925010000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 45 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-10-01 - Do Not Push.mpg -> /mnt/video2/recording/1707_20141002010000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 44 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-10-08 - The Cold.mpg -> /mnt/video/recording/1707_20141009010000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 44 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-10-15 - Marco Polo.mpg -> /mnt/video/recording/1707_20141016010000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 45 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-10-22 - Won't You Be Our Neighbor.mpg -> /mnt/video2/recording/1707_20141023010000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 45 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-10-29 - Halloween 3- AwesomeLand.mpg -> /mnt/video2/recording/1707_20141030010000.mpg</div><div class="gmail_extra">lrwxrwxrwx 1 khanh khanh 44 Nov 13 16:01 Modern Family - 2014-11-12 - Queer Eyes, Full Hearts.mpg -> /mnt/video/recording/1707_20141113020000.mpg</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then in /etc/samba/smb.conf, make sure to "follow symlinks" and "wide links":</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">[plex-tv]</div><div class="gmail_extra"> path = /mnt/plex-tv</div><div class="gmail_extra"> read only = Yes</div><div class="gmail_extra"> guest ok = yes</div><div class="gmail_extra"> follow symlinks = yes</div><div class="gmail_extra"> wide links = yes</div><div><br></div><div>I run Plex on my mythbackend, but I've also run Plex from Windows and Mac over the Samba share. You'll also want to make a cron job out of your mythlink script to run say on the :01 and the :31 minutes so that your recordings just after they complete.</div></div></div>