Problem mounting encrpyted folder on Ubuntu VPS

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1

I’ve been following the Tech Perplexed tutrorial for creating a Plex VPS. Unfortunately it does not include any information about how to mount an encrypted folder.

The encrypted folder contents do show up when I type

rclone -q ls :secure

but I am unable to see the contents when I point Plex to /mnt/secure

The mounting script in TechPerplexed’s tutorial (not sure whether I am allowed to include links) is

[Unit]
Description=Mount Amazon Cloud Drive to /mnt/ACD
After=syslog.target local-fs.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir /mnt/ACD
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rclone mount
–config /home/yourusername/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
–read-only
–allow-other
–allow-non-empty
–acd-templink-threshold 0
–buffer-size 64M
ACD:/Plex /mnt/ACD
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u //mnt/ACD
ExecStop=/bin/rmdir /mnt/ACD
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

My current remotes are shown below and my Plex media folder Movies and TV are subfolders in secure.

Current remotes:

Name Type
==== ====
ACD amazon cloud drive
secure crypt

Iv’e been playing with this part of the script " ACD:/Plex /mnt/ACD " but I can’t seem to get Plex to see anything inside the mount.

Edit: My version of the script is as follows

[Unit]
Description=Mount Secure Amazon Cloud Drive to /mnt/secure
After=syslog.target local-fs.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir /mnt/secure
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rclone mount
–config /home/plexuser/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
–read-only
–allow-other
–allow-non-empty
–acd-templink-threshold 0
–buffer-size 64M
ACD:secure/secure /mnt/secure
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u //mnt/secure
ExecStop=/bin/rmdir /mnt/secure
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Any help would be appreciated.

2

Hi, if your ACD drive is called secure and your mount folder is /mnt/secure try with

[Unit]
Description=Mount Secure Amazon Cloud Drive to /mnt/secure
After=syslog.target local-fs.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir /mnt/secure
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rclone mount
–config /home/plexuser/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
–read-only
–allow-other
–allow-non-empty
–acd-templink-threshold 0
–buffer-size 64M
secure: /mnt/secure
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u //mnt/secure
ExecStop=/bin/rmdir /mnt/secure
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

you also have to check if your config file is in this path –config /home/plexuser/.config/rclone/rclone.conf (in my installation, and i guess it’s the default location for ubuntu, it’s located in /home/yourusername/.rclone.conf) and i don’t know if the double backslash here would work, maybe another could tell us. ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u **//**mnt/secure

3

It was a a permissions error.

If I tried a simple mount using the following

plexuser@ssdnodes-server1:~$ rclone mount --max-read-ahead 1024k --allow-other secure: /mnt/secure &

I would get an error that the user did not have write permissions and the mount would fail

by using the following (placing the sudo command first)

plexuser@ssdnodes-server1:~$ sudo rclone mount --max-read-ahead 1024k --allow-other secure: /mnt/secure &

then the mount was successful and I could access the encrypted folder.

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4

You also could have changed the permissions of the folder to access it with the user of your choice. Then you can use mount it without to sudo the command.