That worked for about 25 minutes. Mint has been giving me trouble anyway, so I am switching back to Fedora. Not sure what the permanent solution would be, but I do not want to keep fighting with this. Thanks again.
The better solution is to manually mount the drive via /etc/fstab. I'm wondering if the drive is getting unmounted due to inactivity. That is what happened with my extra hard drives on my desktop when I allowed the OS to auto-mount them.
Jellyfin 10.9.11
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (bare metal)
Intel i3 12100 on Asus Prime H610M-E D4 mATX
32GB DDR4-3600
Intel Arc A380
OS drive - SK Hynix P41 1TB
Storage
WD Green 3TB (Samba shares)
WD Red 3TB CMR (WIP Media, Test libraries)
3x WD Red Pro 6TB CMR in RAIDZ1 (JF Library)
Fractal Meshify 2
Corsair CX430
I had already added the drives to my fstab file when I installed Mint. I found several threads on the Linux Mint forum about Mint changing ownership of directories to root for "unknown reasons" according to a couple of the forum moderators, including the /home directory.