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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting Media Scanning & Identification Jellyfin unable to scan library folders on new Fedora server install

     
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    Jellyfin unable to scan library folders on new Fedora server install

    Nemyth
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    I've just set up a new Fedora server and have deployed Jellyfin as a service using the official podman guide, but am not having any luck with library scans.
    The logs keep spitting out "library folder [name] is inaccessible or empty' when I initiate a library scan, but as far as I can tell all the permissions seem to be correct.
    Am sure there's probably something obvious I'm missing but at a bit of a loss currently!


    My media folders for shows, TV, etc. are all mounted via SMB and I can view their contents with no issues. I've created a folder called 'media' in the jellyfin user's home directory with the subfolders 'tv', 'movies' and 'music'.

    Permissions for the media folder itself:

    drwxrwxrwx. 5 jellyfin jellyfin 43 Sep  8 16:33 media

    And here are the permissions for its subfolders:

    drwxrwxrwx 2 jellyfin jellyfin 0 Sep  3 12:47 tv
    drwxrwxrwx 2 jellyfin jellyfin 0 Sep  5 08:47 music
    drwxrwxrwx 2 jellyfin jellyfin 0 Sep  5 12:01 movies


    Also a copy of my relevant /etc/fstab entries for reference:

    //192.168.0.4/data/media/tv /home/jellyfin/media/tv cifs credentials=/home/jellyfin/.smbcredentials,uid=1001,gid=1001,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,user 0 0
    //192.168.0.4/data/media/movies /home/jellyfin/media/movies cifs credentials=/home/jellyfin/.smbcredentials,uid=1001,gid=1001,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,user 0 0
    //192.168.0.4/data/media/music /home/jellyfin/media/music cifs credentials=/home/jellyfin/.smbcredentials,uid=1001,gid=1001,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,user 0 0


    I've also uploaded my Jellyfin log file to pastebin in case that helps at all: https://pastebin.com/wX0UsVKG


    Would really appreciate some help with this please Smiling-face
    Thanks in advance!
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