Mounting FreeNAS share to Ubuntu and installing Plex on Ubuntu

The notes are for the goal of installing Plex into the headless Ubuntu server repository so 1) its easy to install and b) updates are easy- then install Plex, then mount the FreeNAS SMB share to the Plex server running in Ubuntu.  Updates to this thread should be made over time after getting the setup to 'work' to then work towards security.  For now, its just within the NAT.

Then something I find a lot harder to do (and scary from past instances of bricking machines), editing fstab to mount drives or shares in Linux.  Why Linux do you make this so hard?

So to get Plex going on Ubuntu server-

Add Plex to your repo for updates (I thought this would be of use to install as well, but I guess not)

echo deb https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb/ public main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list

curl https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key | sudo apt-key add -

After that, it's just a matter of running the normal sudo apt-get update and the Plex Media Server repo will be enabled on the OS.

Then SSH into your server (ensure you have installed SSH) and in my case type: $ wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.4.4.3495-edef59192/plexmediaserver_1.4.4.3495-edef59192_amd64.deb

Then sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.4.4.3495-edef59192_amd64.deb

To prep Ubuntu to mount the samba/CIF share:

sudo apt-get install rpcbind nfs-common

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

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Now the fun part, mounting my FreeNAS share of movies to the Plex server running on Ubuntu server before logging into the Plex webUI to configure the library (this is all on a single box running ESXi).

Getting the path to the FreeNAS share-

my FreeNAS IP is 192.168.*.***, target is /mnt/ZFS/movies, but come to find out that path FreeNAS shows is not how you should go about this, I used smbclient

to poke around with random path tries until seeing its simply FreeNAS IP / share name.  With that info, nano fstab time following this format:

//<IP address of NAS box 192.168.x.y>/<shared folder> /<mount point> cifs guest,_netdev,uid=<your user name on Linux box> 0 0

More info from the site that helped- the end goal is to make it persistent with reboots and secure.  I am running this within a NAT and do not have the IPs locked down as static, so I will need to put in work to remedy this.
Helpful site:  https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Mounting_samba_shares_from_a_unix_client