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Jellyfin unable to scan library folders on new Fedora server install - Nemyth - 2025-09-08
I've just set up a new Fedora server and have deployed Jellyfin as a service using the official podman guide, but am not having any luck with library scans.
The logs keep spitting out "library folder [name] is inaccessible or empty' when I initiate a library scan, but as far as I can tell all the permissions seem to be correct.
Am sure there's probably something obvious I'm missing but at a bit of a loss currently!
My media folders for shows, TV, etc. are all mounted via SMB and I can view their contents with no issues. I've created a folder called 'media' in the jellyfin user's home directory with the subfolders 'tv', 'movies' and 'music'.
Permissions for the media folder itself:
drwxrwxrwx. 5 jellyfin jellyfin 43 Sep 8 16:33 media
And here are the permissions for its subfolders:
drwxrwxrwx 2 jellyfin jellyfin 0 Sep 3 12:47 tv
drwxrwxrwx 2 jellyfin jellyfin 0 Sep 5 08:47 music
drwxrwxrwx 2 jellyfin jellyfin 0 Sep 5 12:01 movies
Also a copy of my relevant /etc/fstab entries for reference:
//192.168.0.4/data/media/tv /home/jellyfin/media/tv cifs credentials=/home/jellyfin/.smbcredentials,uid=1001,gid=1001,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,user 0 0
//192.168.0.4/data/media/movies /home/jellyfin/media/movies cifs credentials=/home/jellyfin/.smbcredentials,uid=1001,gid=1001,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,user 0 0
//192.168.0.4/data/media/music /home/jellyfin/media/music cifs credentials=/home/jellyfin/.smbcredentials,uid=1001,gid=1001,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,user 0 0
I've also uploaded my Jellyfin log file to pastebin in case that helps at all: https://pastebin.com/wX0UsVKG
Would really appreciate some help with this please
Thanks in advance!