

Because Plex is on a machine that’s get’s disconnected from the network and you want to change to a permanently connected system.

To move Plex from your NAS which may not have enough CPU to cope with demand.To run Plex as a service, in the background, automatically starting at boot time.To run Plex on a machine that is ‘headless’ and doesn’t have the overhead of running a full Graphical User Environment (GUI).Please see the ‘Summary Overview’ tab below for a high level view of the objectives this ‘howto’ will achieve.

