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Finding Sub folders - Azriall - 2024-04-13
Good morning fello peeps
I'm setting up my Jellyfin to run on a home Ubuntu server that I'm making for self learning and a fun project. I have installed Jellyfin and confirmed I can acces it remotely, I used mkdir to make /home/<username>/media/anime/<tv show>/<season01>. When i log into Jellyfin via the webui and add library, it allows to me use folder /home/<username> but no further. I'm assuming I don't need to make the <tv show>/<season01> directly as a media folder but i assume I at least need to make the /home/<username>/media/anime in the list. so why can't i see past home when i try to add the right folder?
RE: Finding Sub folders - TheDreadPirate - 2024-04-14
Because jellyfin doesn't have access to your home directory, nor should it. If you have files that will regularly be access by other users or a service user you need to move it out of your home into a directory where it is safe to open the permissions.
RE: Finding Sub folders - Azriall - 2024-04-15
Htanks for that, so how do i make a folder that I can access and put files on that would work for jellyfin but not interfer with the home directory? I'm still new to Linux/Ubuntu but willing to learn
RE: Finding Sub folders - TheDreadPirate - 2024-04-15
/media is a common place to host jellyfin libraries and is there by default in most Linux distros.
Code:
cd /media
sudo mkdir library
sudo chown jellyfin: library
sudo chmod 755 library
cd library
mv /home/<username>/media/* .
sudo chown -R jellyfin: *