SOLVED: Jellyfin doesn't see subfolders in NFS share

[trekkietechie]

Hi folks,

Hoping someone more experienced can offer some help or direction. I'm fairly technically minded but I don't have a ton of Linux/terminal experience.

I have a Synology NAS which stores my media collection, and I've just picked up a Beelink Mini S13 to act as my Jellyfin server while keeping my media on my NAS.

I installed Ubuntu Server 24.04.2 LTS and Jellyfin on the Beelink, followed these steps to enable NFS and configure NFS permissions for my media folder, created a mountpoint at /media/jellyfin on the Beelink, and added the NFS share to /etc/fstab. When configuring the NFS permissions, I checked the "allow users to access mounted subfolders" option.

At this point, when I run ls on /media/jellyfin, I get a list of my media subfolders (Movies, TV, Videos, Music, etc) and can ls each of them in turn to browse their contents (all listed in green text, I assume because they're network/symlinked content not actually present in the directory). This persists even after rebooting, so that's looking good.

However, when I browse to port 8096 at the Beelink's address and run the Jellyfin setup wizard, when I go to add a media folder, it will let me browse into /media and then /jellyfin but no further: Jellyfin doesn't seem to be able to see the Movies, TV, Videos, Music, etc subfolders.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[bitmap]

What kind of install are you using? Bare metal or virtualized (e.g., docker)?

[trekkietechie]

What kind of install are you using? Bare metal or virtualized (e.g., docker)?

Apologies, I should have specified. Bare metal -- I ran

Code:

curl -s https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash

in the Ubuntu terminal to install it.

[trekkietechie]

Just for a bit of additional info, I tried manually entering a media path (i.e. /media/jellyfin/Movies, which I can browse via ls in terminal) when creating a media library and received the error "The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again."

[trekkietechie]

I've continued futzing around with it and I have it working.

When I created the NFS permissions for my NAS media folder, I left the Squash and Security items alone, defaulting to "no mapping" and "sys" respectively.

Even though I could browse the folders from my Ubuntu server, I started wondering if this was a user permissions issue. I set Squash to "map all users to guest" and then gave Guest read-only access to my media folder, and at that point Jellyfin could browse it as expected.

Open to being told there's a better way to approach this but for now my libraries are indexing at least.

[bitmap]

This would've been my suggestion. I squashed access when I used NFS.

[trekkietechie]

Cool, appreciate the confirmation.