LAN access issue

[devnully]

Hello brains trust.

I have a couple of strange issues with the ability of accessing my jellyfin (jf) server from my Home Network (LAN).

1. I am able to access the jf-srv via the jellyfin app from my TV and Tablet (Android).
2. I am unable to access the jf-srv via a web browser using either Chrome or Firefox from either Windows or Android devices.

Installation Details:

JF Ver.: 10.11.11

OS:
Host: titan Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 13.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena
base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Here is a wireshark snap of the jf-app accessing the jf-srv :

GET /Users/5ab86a165b2c4153bf5a4af9aa73e60d HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.24:8096
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 16; moto g86 power 5G Build/W1VNS36H.60-66-8; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/151.0.7922.200 Mobile Safari/537.36
accept: application/json
Authorization: MediaBrowser Client="Jellyfin for Android", Device="The+Phone+of+all+Phones", DeviceId="e5a0b44aa6aef83d", Version="2.7.2", Token="b66ac3413a2849ffa92980ac5dac47b4"
X-Requested-With: org.jellyfin.mobile
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-AU,en;q=0.9,de-DE;q=0.8,de;q=0.7,en-US;q=0.6

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:29:59 GMT
Server: Kestrel
Content-Encoding: gzip
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Response-Time-ms: 9.1125

Which shows no issues. However, trying to use chrome or firefox from either a Windows or an Android host seems to go nowhere.
   

Since these reuse msgs show up ONLY when using a web browser I would think this not to be a Network issues but rather an application related issue. Especially since the Windows host accesses CIFS shares without any issues form the same host as the jellyfin media server runs on.

And having checked the jf-srv log, nothing of value has been found. The only ERR found is related related to a no existing file(s):

The WebRootPath was not found: "/var/lib/jellyfin/wwwroot". Static files may be unavailable.

~$ ls -l /var/lib/jellyfin/wwwroot
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/jellyfin/wwwroot': No such file or directory

And I believe that there is NO firewall running on the server host.

A bit more testing:

~$ sudo ufw status
Status: inactive


~$ curl -fsSI http://127.0.0.1:8096 | sed -n '1p;/^Server:/p;/^Location:/p'
enabled
active
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Kestrel
Location: web/

~$ sudo ss -tunlp | grep jellyfin
udp UNCONN 0 0 0.0.0.0:7359 0.0.0.0:* users:(("jellyfin",pid=3481,fd=312))
tcp LISTEN 0 512 0.0.0.0:8096 0.0.0.0:* users:(("jellyfin",pid=3481,fd=497))


~$ sudo lsof -i | grep jellyfin
jellyfin 3481 jellyfin 312u IPv4 81228 0t0 UDP *:7359
jellyfin 3481 jellyfin 314u IPv4 81231 0t0 TCP *:8096 (LISTEN)
jellyfin 3481 jellyfin 519u IPv4 76227 0t0 TCP localhost:8096->localhost:56758 (ESTABLISHED)
jellyfin 3481 jellyfin 520u IPv4 78476 0t0 TCP localhost:8096->localhost:52518 (ESTABLISHED)

   
   

Cheers,
hw

[TheDreadPirate]

How did you install Jellyfin? With our auto install script?

What is the output of this command?

Code:

apt list --installed | grep jellyfin

[devnully]

jellyfin-ffmpeg7/unknown,now 7.1.4-3-noble amd64 [installed,automatic]
jellyfin-server/unknown,now 10.11.11+ubu2404 amd64 [installed,automatic]
jellyfin-web/unknown,now 10.11.11+ubu2404 all [installed,automatic]
jellyfin/unknown,now 10.11.11+ubu2404 all [installed]

[TheDreadPirate]

I looked at your first post again. I noticed in your screen shot of, I'm assuming, Wireshark that the connection attempt was to destination port 8089 instead of 8096. Am I reading that right?

[devnully]

Dratz ...
That's it ... I mangled the port numbers ...
Sorry for the wasted time and effort.
hw