Plex Media Server Proxmox LXC install script

With Privileged/Unprivileged Hardware Acceleration Support

To create a new Proxmox VE Plex Media Server LXC, run the command below in the Proxmox VE Shell.
To Update Plex Media Server or add Extras, run the command below (or type update) in the LXC Console.

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/ct/plex.sh)"

:zap: Default Settings: 2GB RAM - 8GB Storage - 2vCPU :zap:

Plex Media Server Interface: IP:32400/web

Morning. Still learning and loving it. for this Plex script, is there a way for a gui to be a part of it? There are some configs I’d change after install and not quite comfortable with CLI to that level.

For plex server? Just open http://LXC-IP:32400 in your browser.
If you dont want to use nano for example, all scripts comes with Midnight commander installed, type mc in the lxc console. You can also use Putty or WinSCP to access the lxc and edit files.

Okay - I’ll look at that. The things I was worried about (because I’m learning) is setting up Plex, importing my settings from the Windows machine (Linux Tips - #23 by ChuckPa - Tips, Tricks & How-Tos - Plex Forum) and importing them without a gui. Also, I’ll have an 8TB drive as a volume for Plex for media and I haven’t learned how to set up smb sharing via CLI (versus a regular gui) or copying data from the old drive to this new one.

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I guess there is many ways to add drives, the way I do it is mounted drives to my Plex LXC from my NAS running Openmedivault, have been running like that for 10 years without problems

For example you can create a folder in /mnt/omv
Add the mount in /etc/fstab on your LXC
In my fstab I have this: //10.0.0.41/elements/torrent /mnt/omv cifs username=xxxxxx,password=xxxxxx,rw,hard,vers=3.0,users,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0
Enable SMB/CIFS is the LXC options/features

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Thank you! I’ll try some of that this week. I don’t think any of this will be heard - only the learning part. :slight_smile: I can navigate Plex fine via the browser, it’s the OS level things I am learning without having a gui to right click, etc.

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Hi again! Back to this. I did the advanced install becasue I needed a static IP. It asked for Ubuntu or Debian but defaulted to Ubuntu. If I did the default install (versus advanced) would it have picked Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is default for the Plex script, so it would have picked that.

Thank you! I have everything going - so thank you for the scripts. This is awesome. One last thing - I have smb installed on my Plex and I can connect to the IP but I don’t know the username and password it wants for Plex?