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Path /home for media library - Averum45 - 2025-03-08
I've tried everything. I've given all possible permissions to this shared folder, permissions to Container Manager, installed the server and tried using Jellyfin UI to find it, but I still can't get to the folder where my media files are. They are located at /volume1/home/username/foldername/MUSIC. But Jellyfin when installing the container only sees the path of the jellyfin folder, which is in the docker folder. And after container installation Jellyfin offers to create library only within jellyfin folder. I don't want to move all my files for this.
RE: Path /home for media library - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-09
I'm assuming you are using a Synology NAS to both run Jellyfin and store your media?
Since the media is in your home directory, the permissions are likely locked down starting at /volume1/home/usernames. With Linux, the user you are trying to grant access to needs permissions on every folder in the path. So if you granted Jellyfin permission to read /volume1/home/username/foldername/, but not /volume1/home/username/, Jellyfin will not be able to access "foldername" due to not having access to the parent folder.
RE: Path /home for media library - Averum45 - 2025-03-09
I solved my problem and here's how! My problem was that I started a container with preconstrained parameters and so in Container Manager I created a project where I was able to write in YAML settings for compose. This defined the path and successfully started the server.