First-time NAS user. How would I go about pointing my media server to NAS storage?

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First-time NAS user. How would I go about pointing my media server to NAS storage? - 4r5hw45twh - 2025-11-10

So, I am using the NAS in addition with my mini server PC that uses Ubuntu. My mini PC has Docker and things like that on it. My media interface/player is Jellyfin. I also used an external WD HDD with the server PC that stored the actual media files on it. What I am doing now is transferring 18TB worth of folders/files to my NAS storage.

However, how would I point things to this NAS now, especially since some of my things that pointed to the external HDD will now be on a separate system or whatever?

A snippet of my Jellyfin docker-compose.yml file is:

Code:
        volumes:

          - /home/admin/Dockers/Jellyfin/Config:/config

          - /home/admin/Dockers/Jellyfin/Cache:/cache

          - /home/admin/Dockers/Jellyfin/Web/web-config.json:/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/config.json

          - /media/JF/Jellyfin:/Media

        restart: 'unless-stopped'

    networks:

      default:

        external: true

        name: docknetwork

The way I have the NAS setup currently is I have my external HDD plugged into the back of it, saw the usbshare1 shared folder appear, created my first shared folder just called "Media", and then I have the entire HDD transferring to that shared Media folder now. So, what is the proper way to do this since I am using a separate server PC instead of using Docker-related stuff on the NAS itself, on "docknetwork" (not sure if this even matters), etc., etc.?

So, "/media/JF/Jellyfin" is the current directory on my Ubuntu server. When copying it all over, my **NAS's** shared Media folder structure is:

/Media/
├── Jellyfin/
│ ├── Anime/
│ ├── Movies/
│ ├── TV Shows/
│
├── OtherFolderHere/
│ ├── folder1/
│ ├── folder2/
│ └── folder3/
├── OtherFolderHere2/
│ ├── folder1/
│ ├── folder2/
│ └── folder3/