Reverse proxy entire Jellyfin instance or mount media remotely?

[schnappi]

Is it preferable to run an entire Jellyfin instance behind a reverse proxy with local disks or run Jellyfin locally (still using a reverse proxy) with remote connections to the media disks? More or less, which would work better? Currently running an entire instance behind a reverse proxy, but it doesn't work great. Not sure if this is completely due to the tunnel or not.

[crobibero]

Having the disks being local to Jellyfin is preferred since all data flows through Jellyfin.

[I-G-1-1]

As I don't want Jellyfin to directly manage my collection (folder structure, file names) I prefer to use local connection (only 1GB LAN) to the media disk using SAMBA and mount it as Read Only on the Jellyfin Server.

[ChosenOne]

Hello, new user and first time commenter.
I have Jellyfin library set up as read only in truenas just in case for the same reason.
I also have the main portal web facing with a duckdns subdomain working flawlessly. What’s not working great for you?
I’m assuming you’re able to create a new smb user with read only rights to that network file/drive and update on mount?