jellyfin + raspberry pi user permissions

[joaorennato]

I have just set up Jellyfin on my raspberry pi 3b, and I'm having trouble with the user jellyfin not being able to access my external hard drive, where I have a samba share set up. I have added the jellyfin user to the sadmin group (which has access to my external drive), with:

Code:

usermod -a -G sadmin jellyfin

and also added the jellyfin user and jelly group as an allowed on my /etc/samba/smb.conf file, like so:

Code:

path = /media/hd/samba/joao/Videos
browseable = yes
read only = no
force create mode = 0660
force directory mode = 2770
valid users = jellyfin @sambashare @sadmin @jellyfin

but I can't get it to access the external hard drive. The folder it's supposed to access is /media/hd/samba/joao/Videos/Filmes, but when I try to set it up in the web interface, it says it can not access the location.

Any ideas?
Thank you all in advantage!

[TheDreadPirate]

What are the mount parameters you used in /etc/fstab?

[joaorennato]

What are the mount parameters you used in /etc/fstab?

Hey there, thanks for replying!
I used the line below, so it mounts automatically on boot.

Code:

UUID="5673be75-7594-43c1-be95-a8df86698565" /media/hd ext4 defaults,noatime,auto 0 0

[TheDreadPirate]

I re-read your post. Your Samba config has nothing to do with a local application accessing it. Samba is for remote hosts.

What are the permissions on the folders? Copy and paste this command and share the output.

Code:

ls -ld /media /media/hd /media/hd/samba /media/hd/samba/joao /media/hd/samba/joao/Videos

[joaorennato]

I re-read your post.  Your Samba config has nothing to do with a local application accessing it.  Samba is for remote hosts.

What are the permissions on the folders?  Copy and paste this command and share the output.

Code:

ls -ld /media /media/hd /media/hd/samba /media/hd/samba/joao /media/hd/samba/joao/Videos

Here's the output:

Code:

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# ls -ld /media /media/hd /media/hd/samba /media/hd/samba/joao /media/hd/samba/joao/Videos
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root      4096 Jan 18  2020 /media
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      4096 Jan 19  2020 /media/hd
drwxr-xr-x  7 root sambashare 4096 Jan 14  2022 /media/hd/samba
drwxrws--- 13 joao sambashare 4096 Apr 24 13:33 /media/hd/samba/joao
drwxrwxrwx  5 joao sadmin    4096 Feb 18  2022 /media/hd/samba/joao/Videos

[TheDreadPirate]

Assuming that Jellyfin runs on this same host, Jellyfin does not have permissions to read beyond /media/hd/samba/joao.

Can you confirm that Jellyfin is running on this same host?

If so, adding r-x permissions for "others" on /media/hd/samba/joao should be enough.

Code:

sudo chmod o+rx /media/hd/samba/joao

If that doesn't work, let me know.

[joaorennato]

Assuming that Jellyfin runs on this same host, Jellyfin does not have permissions to read beyond /media/hd/samba/joao.

Can you confirm that Jellyfin is running on this same host?

If so, adding r-x permissions for "others" on /media/hd/samba/joao should be enough.

Code:

sudo chmod o+rx /media/hd/samba/joao

If that doesn't work, let me know.

I can confirm that it works and I'm now able to access my movie library!
OMG, thank you so much for all your help!