Win 10 & NAS

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What protocol are you accessing the shares by - SMB, NFS?

1. Sorry, I don't know what the SMB NFS or what protocol is. It's doubtful I'd be able to answer that question unless you told me exactly where to look.

I have Folders called TV and Movies on my NAS. They are shared with 2 user accounts on my NAS's OS. The Name of the NAS's OS is simply called DSM. So in DSM, I have set those to shared with the 2 user accounts within the Synology OS.

2. As far as the Windows machine, where the JF server software is installed, I couldn't tell you what kind of status the folders have right now. Viewing the folders in Windows file explorer, all I can say is they look just like ordinary windows folders, except their parent folders have little green pipes next to the folder icon.

Sounds like SMB. If you mounted the Synology shared folders with "\\<your-nas-name>\<folder-name>", that's how SMB shares are mounted on Windows.

So, assuming, just as an educational exercise if I was using "SMB protocol" and my server's name was BozosNAS, and I wanted to share the folder "Movies" it would be \\BozosNAS\Movies ? Or 192.168.x.x\Movies ? WHat goes in the x places? How would I find that information?

The "x" variables are placeholders for your NAS' IP address. With Synology, you'll see it's IP address on your home page widget on the bottom-right of the screen. 192.168.x.x is a common internal network range, so if you see IP addresses that start with those numbers, you have to be on the person's network to access them as they're not external facing IPs.

Look at where your media folder is on Windows. When you mount it to your Windows Explorer, you have to give it a drive letter. What drive letter does your NAS folder have? (ex: D:, E:, F: etc...)
On the first screenshot that you posted, you're supposed to click on the drive letter that's the same one on the mounted NAS folder with your media files.
You can either type out the full path, or you can click on the provided GUI. Just click your way to your media file(s).

Since you already have mounted the NAS folder onto Windows, you do not need to type in a shared network folder path. You're supposed to do only one of the two to create a library on Jellyfin.
The shared network folder option is if you don't have the NAS folder mounted directly to your computer.