2024-01-20, 03:46 PM
Hi, here is a noob 3-part question about network:
1. I wanted to test Jellyfin, so I made a host on one laptop (connected to the router via ethernet cable) and was unable to connect to it on my home wifi network. Upon realizing the problem, I disconnected ethernet cable and connected host laptop to the same wifi and it worked without issues. But if I wanted to keep my host connected to the router via cable and not the wifi, how would I go about setting it all up?
2. And going further I'm looking into building a NAS/home server. I really don't have much idea about networks, but I imagine that server would be also connected through cable and not wifi - so for example: how could I access Jellyfin hosted on the NAS from my PC connected only via ethernet cable and also other laptop connected to wifi?
3. Another level is accessing it from the outside (I travel a lot). From what I red so far it looks like I would need my own domain and some sort of reverse proxy setup. Most guides are centered around few other services, like tailscale/traefik/cloudflare, all these on docker containers, everything has to be set up, managed, etc... Seems like whole lot of complicated stuff - is there a simpler way to access Jellyfin library from outside of my networks?
Thanks for any answers, I appreciate it.
1. I wanted to test Jellyfin, so I made a host on one laptop (connected to the router via ethernet cable) and was unable to connect to it on my home wifi network. Upon realizing the problem, I disconnected ethernet cable and connected host laptop to the same wifi and it worked without issues. But if I wanted to keep my host connected to the router via cable and not the wifi, how would I go about setting it all up?
2. And going further I'm looking into building a NAS/home server. I really don't have much idea about networks, but I imagine that server would be also connected through cable and not wifi - so for example: how could I access Jellyfin hosted on the NAS from my PC connected only via ethernet cable and also other laptop connected to wifi?
3. Another level is accessing it from the outside (I travel a lot). From what I red so far it looks like I would need my own domain and some sort of reverse proxy setup. Most guides are centered around few other services, like tailscale/traefik/cloudflare, all these on docker containers, everything has to be set up, managed, etc... Seems like whole lot of complicated stuff - is there a simpler way to access Jellyfin library from outside of my networks?
Thanks for any answers, I appreciate it.