If you're running Windows I made this video going over some options you have to connect to your new Linux server :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/iX-8n4KPjNSYd9k
@NarpX3 жыл бұрын
You've been uploading for 9 years straight, you always made very helpful tips and you only have 20k subscribers. Hopefully you grow wayy more in these next few years.
@mrdefaultynoob3 жыл бұрын
You called it he got 30k now
@batmanasdasd3 жыл бұрын
Almost 40 now
@prntm9262 жыл бұрын
67.8 now
@Suresh21pariyar2 жыл бұрын
its 71k now
@Dylan-zm3ht2 жыл бұрын
80k!
@fawzanfawzi99933 жыл бұрын
Finally, I can re-use my ancient laptop beside for seeing adult content.
@therealslimaddy3 жыл бұрын
and use that to watch adult content using plex.. win:win (;
@batmanasdasd3 жыл бұрын
Adult content 😏
@nostalgia_junkie3 жыл бұрын
very in character for max
@seanwatts3922 жыл бұрын
Lol I just use my phone for that. I never watched porn on a computer in my life. Idk what my wife uses to watch porn. I think her phone. You know what ima ask her I never thought about that lmao. She probably uses her phone tho but he I knows.
@johndawson60572 жыл бұрын
By adult content do you mean taxes and stuf???
@ericleiteperuzzo65322 жыл бұрын
Awesome tutorial! I really enjoy your videos. Here are some tips for those who bumped into some troubles along the way like me: Recent versions of Ubuntu Server have the UFW firewall activated by default, so in every step that you take, make sure that open the respective port for each application. e.g.: Opening ports in ufw for being able to ACCESS Plex web interface 🤣: [~/]$ sudo ufw allow 32400 Also, the SFTP protocol is very slow compared to samba transfers. I had much better results sharing the Plex media folder trough samba. Also make sure to allow samba 🤦♂: [~/]$ sudo ufw allow samba
@Notyourbusinesschap6 ай бұрын
It's crazy, i would never have done this without you. What an amazing tutorial! A few hickups these days, like plex user not having access to home subfolders, but nothing you can't google. Thank you!
@thejeewee19102 ай бұрын
how did you fix this exactly? Same issue here...
@Notyourbusinesschap2 ай бұрын
@@thejeewee1910 Oof, I don't quite remember now, but I'm pretty sure it was the chmod command to modifify the permissions.
@thejeewee19102 ай бұрын
@@Notyourbusinesschap thanks, that solved the issue indeed!
@Notyourbusinesschap2 ай бұрын
@@thejeewee1910 Glad to help!
@GuitarPlaya20003 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video, thank you! I REALLY appreciate the step by step instructions and the cut and paste commands and links. My current Plex server is on a Mac Mini, but I prefer to use Linux instead mainly for the low OS overhead alone!! Again, thank you and keep up the good work!
@marcin63862 жыл бұрын
I switched to linux around 5 years ago, I was using it mainly as developing machine. I was coding, playing with i3wm vim and other open source software. I get really comfy with linux ecosystem. And really really now I see when I created my own server how great that decision to move myself to linux was!
@thebozzIDW Жыл бұрын
Thank you @TechHut for recording and sharing this video, it was an incredibly valuable resource as I was setting up Ubuntu Server as a VM on my M1 Mac. Although it wasn't exactly 1:1 to my purposes (as I am not using Plex on my Ubuntu Server) your video helped me out greatly.
@CharlesCollins7 ай бұрын
Plex recognises my home folder but not the folders I created like you did.
@Destide3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for adding the lid tips, just transitioning from a pi and that was my biggest concern.
@srijan558 ай бұрын
Out of thousands of setup instruction videos out there, I think this one is the simplest and to the point. Thanks!
@diacekey59592 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this amazing guide. It feels super great to find interest in stuff like this old laptop sleeping in my desk which now is Plexing all my Chromecasts.
@theproudlinuxer3 жыл бұрын
Oh yes Brandon!! This video is gonna be useful currently. Will DM you if I succeed :)
@patricklindholm36032 жыл бұрын
You just got me a 100 on my project! Thanks!
@keninthekitchen15627 ай бұрын
I think this is a great video. I recently build a new gaming/video editing rig, and haven't gotten rid of my old one yet because Im so partial to it, but this is a great use for it! Thanks for this video :)
@itzcaseykc2 жыл бұрын
Nice. May do this with an older laptop just for grins & chuckles.
@wendywinnard56282 жыл бұрын
Did it! Now running my own moodle from my old laptop. Love Linux
@elektron2kim6662 жыл бұрын
Just for cleaning up in my confusing file system, I made a server like this. Very helpful video.
@glbong42 Жыл бұрын
was actually looking for something like this for my old desktop! good stuff!
@auto1176662 жыл бұрын
Great video. I love your detailed step by step approach to this. I am curremtly app,ying this to my laptop with a jellyfin server.
@edvigq Жыл бұрын
Old HP probook 4340s laptops (Intel i3) are currently much cheaper than raspberry Pis (especially if you add screen and kboard. I got one for £25 with a missing battery. You can replace the DVD with a drive caddy too. The HP BIOS is great with loads of options. It does WoL and boot on detection of A/C, so I attached to a cheap smart plug so I can boot it from my phone. It now lives under the TV and does everything servery.
Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for your guidance. 🔥 I skipped the Plex part because I will use the server as a lab for Docker / Kubernetes. ✌ The Ubuntu Server 22.04 has support for wifi config, as easy as it can get. I am using my cellphone as a Hotspot. 😅 Keep the good work. 🙏🏻
@woodrochristopherwood15783 жыл бұрын
Thanks, the best up-to-date video so far. Very informative and helpful. Might try setting up Ubuntu server again instead of freenas.
@mogenicwolf2 жыл бұрын
Worked like a charm! Thank you!
@jonspoonamore37213 жыл бұрын
Good video!!!! For me.... I just use LMDE4 (Debian 10) as my server. I like Emby over Plex. I have enough Internet Bandwidth to share my media with family and friends. Something I do to help Emby run better is to pre-transcode all of my media to x264 in a mp4 container. I seldom have anyone needing to transcode video for playback when I do this. Just about every device on the planet will play x264 mp4 files. Only on slow family/friends Internet connections does transcoding need to be done. Pre-transcoding takes a lot of load off your CPU.
@StephanRaabeVideos3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Great video. Will definitely try it next weekend!!!
@adyandrey23andrey3 жыл бұрын
Hi! First of all, thank you for all the explaining! Seccond, it would be so cool if you could do a Windoes version of main PC. Starting with SSH Into server from WINDOWS. It is not *that* different, but I had to search for this online. I am not running Ubuntu on any machine so there was some reverse engeneering from my part to be able to forward on your steps. I am now stumbling upon the SFTP step, because I do not know what is the equivalent of Nemo in Windows, so more research on that. Other than that, all the install and updating steps worked like a charm and it was of real help you showing this on actual video. Seems more organic than just copy-pasting some comands until you get it over with. Thank you once more!
@slavamay62292 жыл бұрын
Cyberduck works for me, looks similar to Nemo
@salkban20663 ай бұрын
This was excellent!
@guillerey50211 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video, it help me so much to build my media server
@markcopper18983 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊...I've been trying to figure out how to do this for sometime now. Your instruction simplified things.
@EclecticLensYT3 жыл бұрын
Something possibly just as important as the server, is storage. I'm looking to upgrade in the near future and wondered what you would suggest for a home storage solution for my media which is mostly currently made up of 1080 content but I've been adding more and more 4K content all the time. Keep in mind this is for home use and only for me so I don't want to overspend but I also don't want to get something I regret buying. Data redundancy is important so something like a raid setup is what I'm looking at, I'm just not sure what to go with.
@qani6132 жыл бұрын
the lid tips was awesome thank you
@sanelhadzini60883 жыл бұрын
Just what I was looking for! :)
@MrReklez4 ай бұрын
Very useful video & website, thank you
@sprunt4543 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent guide! That being said I personally found it much easier to just run windows and remote desktop from my daily driver. I actually wanted to use Linux but the Linux remote desktop was so difficult to get working consistently that I abandoned it. Primary reason for this setup it is the same machine I rip and download on so I need full remote functionality. Are there alternatives to this, or something I'm missing?
@amirmukhlis49363 жыл бұрын
Hey, this might not for me but probably I'm going to use this guide in future. Anyway, great content bro!😀👍
@malanbandara2 жыл бұрын
Very informative. Thank you
@aryanmishra7759 Жыл бұрын
I'd like to add that if you're a linux newbie who might try this on a laptop without a wifi adapter or ethernet connection, consider doing some research on your laptop's built in wifi adapter because you could face varying issues if your adapter uses proprietary drivers which could take from a few minutes to several hours to fix. Even after switching back to windows you could face some issues with wifi which are quite easy to fix but don't blindly go installing a server without some fixes already in hand.
@BrucesWorldofStuff3 жыл бұрын
This is one reason I don't use PLEX. I Don't see the point of having to login to a internet account to view or manage my local media server. I use Emby which is better for me as I don't need accounts to get to my media on my server. That is just insane. Yes they offer a account if you want more stuff and access from the internet but NO. No outside connections... I use a old Dell laptop as my music server with a external USB drive as storage and I have a media/video server. Yes I know I can do both on one, I just like them separate... :-) Great video on how to set up a media server. It is really that simple... Lol LLAP P.S. the SFTP tip was golden!
@fullnight Жыл бұрын
Thanks, it was very helpful.
@tye5952 жыл бұрын
lol love the thumbnail oooh looks so sophisticated.... na just htop
@nojusticeanywhere11 ай бұрын
Got a bit lost while using Nautilus as my file explorerer, but otherwise everything is really well explained, thank you!
@dofist2 жыл бұрын
Hey! Can you please add "sudo service plexmediaserver stop" "sudo addgroup plex YOURUSERNAME" "sudo service plexmediaserver start" commands to your tutorial? I could not find any other folders except /home without these commands.
@Johnyboy-wj6ls Жыл бұрын
Did this fix plex not being able to see the movies and TV shows files for you?
@dofist Жыл бұрын
@@Johnyboy-wj6ls yes
@Berzerkerhr Жыл бұрын
worked for me thx @taman
@johnf48286 ай бұрын
Worked for me too! Thank you so much!
@MikeCurran-nf9ym3 ай бұрын
I just posted a question on r/plex referencing this GREAT video, but asking for help for a recent video because it has been since 2018. Someone suggested I ask if you can make an updated one. I thought that was self-centered of me to ask, but some of the commenters said it's not uncommon for YTubers to post updates after commenters on the video asked for it.
@ChrisD__3 жыл бұрын
Hehe, it's a bit funny seeing the T450 called old. People are still recommending T420's for daily use. (2012 laptop) I EDC a T450S and that's "new" to a lot of Thinkpad people.
@rifle25632 жыл бұрын
I use a t520 for daily use and i love it
@CatTheRoundEarther Жыл бұрын
T440p here!
@shaneschwalger24823 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I learnt a lot.
@Datcyd32 жыл бұрын
Dopeness.... Thank You!
@xIndustrialShadoWx7 ай бұрын
That was a great video! Any step by step follow up on how to upgrade to be able to connect from outside local network ?
@gortizbaez2 жыл бұрын
Thank You. this video helped me a lot!!!!
@titus953613 жыл бұрын
Great video man
@sbooder3 жыл бұрын
Top tutorial, many thanks.
@UsmanTheDev9 ай бұрын
Hey. Great Content, very impressive. Please suggest some tutorial related to port forwarding and access ubuntu server from other network. that server can also be used for hosting.
@zameerpashablr Жыл бұрын
Wonderful .......Thank you very much
@aliferdi38223 жыл бұрын
thanks best linux reviewer
@melitgreybeardivey74363 жыл бұрын
May I ask of you the model and specs of the Thinkpad? An old T400 of ours falters when running h.265 under Windows.
@greytombstonesalman19383 жыл бұрын
Hi TechHut. great video. Thank you! One of the challenges I keep facing with my old laptops is the hardware doesn't support 64 bit architecture, and It looks that Ubuntu Server only supports x64 architecture, so I couldn't install it on my old dell satellite laptop unfortunately.
@gkazanjian59763 жыл бұрын
Just go with debian instead of ubuntu.
@AndreBeukesZA2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I am one who would much rather watch a long detailed video than 20 stupid linus tech tips videos that give no real description when it comes to software.
@truthsayer95342 жыл бұрын
Great video. For future reference this : is a colon. This ; is a semi-colon. You were calling colons semi-colons.
@pierreosteil70052 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
@mr-skorpion3 жыл бұрын
This is a very comprehensive guide, thanks a lot man
@RuiNetoX3 жыл бұрын
Great help Thanks
@98SE2 жыл бұрын
1:32 - "So enough f*ck*ng introduction lets go ahead and go onto our computer and burn the disk image of the ubuntu server installation". HAHA
@sulaimandev2 жыл бұрын
😂
@nithinbharathkumar7246 Жыл бұрын
please make a video with doing the same with jellyfin
@trapOrdoom2 жыл бұрын
I just wanna watch whatever I want on VLC on mobile
@ME-ov7vp Жыл бұрын
thanks for this video
@roottoot60283 жыл бұрын
Those old Lenovos are rare as hen's teeth around here.
@malikkemp76177 ай бұрын
I feel like im missing a step for Plex, for some reason my Media folder is not showing in Plex. It could have something to do with me using WinSCP when I was putting my movie files into the server but I can't figure it out
@thejeewee19102 ай бұрын
Had the same issue. You have to set the folder permission.
@usuariogenerico15612 жыл бұрын
That's so cool, thanks! Quick question: I have an old laptop that I could use for this, do you think it is necessary to upgrade the disk to an SSD for this?
@snakedude617 ай бұрын
Is there any chance you could show how to do this with a mini pc like a beelink and a synology for storage to offload the transcoding?
@johnissa52683 жыл бұрын
great video
@talkintitles7 ай бұрын
@TechHut I’d like to create a server with an unused laptop as well. Can you explain why this Ubuntu is necessary? As I understand it I can just install the Plex server file onto my computer, plug in some external hard drives for storage and manage it from there. Thanks for any help. I’m not well versed when it comes to some of the advanced computer knowledge.
@twisttmannmickey4 ай бұрын
This is great - I did this on an old laptop! However I have my media on a network hard drive - how do I get the laptop to show the media from there?
@tordb11 ай бұрын
Linux and Plex go brrrr. Linux is the best distro, hands down to run Plex.
@enlightment47478 ай бұрын
Very useful thank you, but I have a question. I am using a NAS for picture andf videos from the phones, but I also want to use it as a file server. I tried to use it aas a Plex server and found its limits. How would I point Plex server to the NAS where the Movies files are located? TIA
@boiledpotatos48282 жыл бұрын
one minor detail. you may not have the same username in the server as your main machine. so you can use ssh usernameForServer@ip_address
@ADDEM___2 жыл бұрын
i was so confused till i saw this lmaoo cheers 👍
@heathensein65822 жыл бұрын
Dude thank you so much I just couldn't get why it kept refusing my password
@frankjuniorvl67754 күн бұрын
WOA THAT IS NOT A MINOR DETAIL, THAT IS A SUPER HUGE DETAIL, I WAS SEARCHING EVERYTHING BUT THAT and it worked like a charm
@KB-ge4rn10 ай бұрын
Ty
@paulnortham3 жыл бұрын
Great video - I've been waiting for something like this. However, I'm stuck at the SSH login stage, which is giving me a 'permission denied' message. Do you have any suggestions, please?!
@geirfammestaddonski48353 жыл бұрын
Try: ssh username@ in front of the ip adress. Hope that might help :)
@paulnortham3 жыл бұрын
@@geirfammestaddonski4835 You beauty! Result!
@geirfammestaddonski48353 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it helped :)
@kevinallister83733 жыл бұрын
@@geirfammestaddonski4835 This also helped me. Thank you!
@geirfammestaddonski48353 жыл бұрын
@@kevinallister8373 glad it helped 👍
@LuisHongo10 ай бұрын
Amazing guide bro, just turned my old desktop in a media server. Quick question, I can turn it off and on and nothing will happen, just need to wait until services start to run again right?
@parryhotter7036 Жыл бұрын
thank fo the video, should i remove the battery if i keep the laptop working 24/7, or keeping it just fine?
@andreasbagus38663 жыл бұрын
Awesome..!!!
@zorabixun3 жыл бұрын
I am surprised how easily you did connect from the main computer to that new server 🙄 I connected my laptop desktop with a tower desktop, using a switch, I can not find any good tutorial how to make the setup on my LAN, something is visible on the 2 screens, but i can not access them to share files, printer, etc. I was doing some setup in Samba, Firewall, but still i am confused without proper effect .... i am watching your videos with big interest, if i could suggest to make a closer view of the terminal window to understand the commands and system answers 🥳 ..... thanks very much 👍
@fourex592 жыл бұрын
Brandon, thanks very much for the awesome tutorial. I have one question, I will be using an external hard drive for my media content with my laptop. How do I handle the mount points for that hard drive? I know if I use a GUI for the operating system it would automatically mount the hard drive. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t just use a GUI as opposed to manually changing the config lines?
@yeoucheoub3535 Жыл бұрын
VERY nice! CAN I transfer files in bulk like not the sopranos 1080p this but something directly from external HD to laptop server?
@mariocincu4796 ай бұрын
Hi I know this video is old but, what kind of linux are you using? Is it light? And is it good for work purposes? I use ms office apps Thanks :)
@snyluc133 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, will do this on old tower, what OS are you using that you are sshing from? I am liking the UI
@TechHut3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! And I'm running Arco Linux with Cinnamon atm. I usually run i3 or Plasma but I've been trying it out.
@OvenBak3d360 Жыл бұрын
Once you actually add the library to plex is the process to add more moves just consist of adding them using the drag and drop method you used to add the movie? And does plex automatically update with the metadata for the new movies.
@sholomperman98988 ай бұрын
Do you just keep it plugged in and have the battery at 100% will it be dangerous and bad for the batter? Or is there a way to make the batter start charging at 20 and stop at 80 or something like that?
@steve4life83 жыл бұрын
Very good video! Can I plug my external hard drive like 2tb to the server laptop and use the hard drive to store content ?
@alx8439 Жыл бұрын
Why to opt for proprietary Plex and not the opensource Jellyfin?
@gadooze Жыл бұрын
this is what I did, hahaha, now I have media and file servers
@jamiebishop95126 ай бұрын
Please tell me why whenever I reboot or shutdown this server, it never works afterwards? What needs to be done in addition to these steps? I can't even start the openssh service
@DG-ks5wn8 ай бұрын
One question...The email Registration thing, is it optional and if not why exactly is that needed? When only sharing the plex server on the lan it doesnt has anything to do with wan, right?
@evanmarshall94982 жыл бұрын
Did you ever make a video about securely connecting to the server outside local network?
@YingzeHou2 ай бұрын
If I move to another country and want to change my mirror, can I do that? Or will it be changed automatically? Thanks!
@amirmukhlis49363 жыл бұрын
I wonder if there's any great distro for servers. What's your choice and why you pick it?
@cookie12183 жыл бұрын
Try open media vault.
@cookie12183 жыл бұрын
It's based on Debian.
@redeye6193 жыл бұрын
any chance you could give me some help. im stuck at ssh, the password I've set keeps saying incorrect, gone back onto the server pc and works fine
@titopb3 жыл бұрын
Nice, waiting for more videos! How to backup files and system in ubuntu server?
@Bradenxd123 жыл бұрын
Hey I see this was a while ago. But if your still looking, I would suggest Duplicati.
@DaddyOsDonuts2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video, it is very helpful. Using this exact setup, I have attached an external hard drive but Plex cannot access it. I know it's something with permissions but I cannot figure it out. Do you have a video for that? Thanks!
@zaluq3 жыл бұрын
Thx for the video , i try to install plexmedia on Ubuntu Core , but have problems to map nfs drive to ubuntu core on Raspberry Pi 3 as everthing seems to be write protected and cant edit fstab
@danchieev2 жыл бұрын
I have setup proxmox with several VMs running and plex server media virtualized in TrueNas VM. I have an issue with my zpool on Truenas VM with HDD pass through keeps on failing to mount after it running for a week. I have also had a HDD test on my drives and passed the test. Here is my setup HP z620 Dual xeon with two zpool ; one running proxmox running on 240gb SSD ; local storage configured in first zpool (three 500gb HDD) and the second zpool (two 4TB HDD mirrored) running on TrueNas VM through virtio SCSI HDD pass-through.Any advice will be appreciated