Tutorials Media Server With Ubuntu Using Plex

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You Can Create Streaming Server Using Ubuntu server. Store Your Movies , TV Shows, Photos Videos and stream it from other devices.

Requirement
- PC or Laptop with network configuration.
- Ubuntu Server (Download Link At End Of Tutorial).
- Internet Connection To Download Software.

Steps to Install PLEX On Ubantu...

Step 1 : Make Bootable Pen drive or CD.

Step 2 : Now install ubuntu server on your PC.And log in using username and password you have entered before.

Step 3 : You are not logged in as root. You must log in as root. So for that you need to change root password by typing following command.

$ sudo passwd root

Then Enter Your current password.
Then Enter Password for root and account and confirm it.
To log in as root type

$su

then enter your root password. Now you are logged in as root.

Step 4 : Your System Must Need Static IP. Assign it from your router or you can set it in terminal by Doing This...
- Type $ ifconfig
- Note Down Details Of eth0 details.
- Type $ vi /etc/network/interfaces
- It Will Bring Text File. Now Type after "Primary Network Interface ", details in following format....

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address <youripaddress>
broadcast <broadcast address>
network <network address>
netmask <Netmask value>
gateway <gateway address>
dns-nameservers <gateway address> 8.8.8.8

- Hit 'Esc' and Type ":wq" (Without quote).

Step 5 :
Type $ apt-get update
Just For checking new update if available.

Type $ apt-get upgrade
To upgrade your packages.

Step 6 :
Now You Need To Install SAMBA server for get your media from other OS like windows OR Mac.

Type $ atp-get install samba

When prompt type 'y' to confirm.

Step 7:
Now You Need To setup directory to store your media.

Type $ mkdir /<yourdirectoryname>
for eg. "$ mkdir /mediafiles"

This Will Make Directory on root level.

Step 8:
Now We Need To Set Permission on your Directory which we have created. For That Type..

$ chmod 777 /<yourdirectoryname>
eg. "$ chmod 777 /mediafiles"

Step 9:
We Need to setup samba configuration to created directory to store our media.Now Type...

$ vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

It will Open Text file

Like This...

Change or Add Following Things... This Are Required Steps So must Do It.
- Add Workgoup name Like this....
Workgroup = <YOURWORK Group Name>

- Remove Comment From Win Support and Change it to yes...
eg . " win support = yes "

- Now After dns proxy, Add This....
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

- Go To End Of File and Type in Following Format...

[<any name for your samba directory]
comment = <appropriate Comment>
path = /<name of your created directory>
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes

Like This...

Step 10 :
To Install PLEX Server we need to download some dependencies. To do that execute following command.

$ apt-get install avahi-daemon avahi-utils

Type 'y' for Yes.
And it download and install those.

Step 11:
Now we will install plex media server.
- To Do that you need to use other pc with internet connection and browser.
- Go To

You must be registered for see links

- Than Under Media Server, Click Computer.
- Choose Linux and In Linux Choose 64-bit of ubuntu. (Or You can choose 32-bit if you have installed 32-bit version)
- Right Click on Button and Copy Download Link. And Paste it to your text editor for note down purpose.

Step 12 :
On Server Download package using note down link.
- To Do that execute following command.

$ wget

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- You can change download link if it is updated afterwords.
- It will take some time according to your internet connection.

Step 13 :
After Completion of download, we need to install that package.

$ dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.12.19.1537-f38ac80_amd64.deb

- Type 'y' for yes.
- It will install package to your server.

Step 14 :
We need to put media on our server.

- For that you need to connect your other PC or Mac to same network of your server.
- On Network You will see your server with it's host name.

- We have enabled guest, so you don't need to enter any username or password.
- You will see directory named as you enter at time of configuration of samba config file.

- Open This Directory. You'll see empty directory. This is your directory which we have created earlier.
- Now Make Some Folder Like Movie , Music , TV Shows Photos. This Will Help Media server to sort your media category wise...

- Put Your Media According To Your Folder.

Step 15 :
Now To Configure PLEX Media Server. Open Browser on other system connected to same network.

- Enter

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server's IP add>:32400/web
- It will show you PLEX Home page. Hit 'Agreee' Button.
- Click ' + ' on corner of the page.

- Select Your Category.

- Select Directory We have created from root directory.

- Choose sub directory according to choose category.
- And then PLEX will detect media and download metadata for your data.

Step 15 :
Now You can see your media on other device as well.

- You can download Android , IOS and Windows App From their store. Some platform might have paid app.
- You can download app for PC from "

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". Then go to Home Theater.

Thank You For Seeing this tutorial and sorry for my bad english.
Got Any Problem, ask me.

And Don't Forget To Say Thanks....

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