SOLVED: Jellyfin NAS Not Scanning Correctly

[kandykarter]

The issue you're facing is that real-time monitoring does not work over a network share.
Network shares do not support the necessary thing that enables real-time reporting to function.

It only works when the media is added to drives directly mounted to the host OS.
You'll have to get used to scanning a specific season/show/movie/library or whole server to get network share additions and deletions to be handled.

I hear this a lot but I think it's outdated information. I have network shares mounted with cifs in my fstab, and Jellyfin's real-time monitoring works fine. I'm sure it's still finicky, but to say it does not work is not correct. I think as long as the app that writes to the network share is on the same host machine as Jellyfin, it should work fine. If I manipulate a file on my Synology NAS through the DSM interface, Jellyfin won't notice the change, but if (a program we don't talk about here) is running on the same host as Jellyfin, changes made by the app-that-shant-be-named will be noticed as usual.