2023-08-16, 06:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-08-16, 08:26 PM by doogly. Edited 2 times in total.)
Alright, so I recently built a brand new NAS specifically to run Unraid and Jellyfin as a docker app (I had been running Jellyfin on a Windows Server for years).
This is a completely brand new from scratch build, I've never worked with Unraid before so hopefully I'm missing something simple. I'm going to list the steps I've taken so far, but please let me know if there's a "best practice" for any of this stuff that I may have overlooked.
Other than those things, I haven't done any other configuration to my Unraid instance or Jellyfin. Am I missing something obvious? Is there a better way I should be setting up my Media shares within Unraid/Jellyfin?
I've spent probably over two hours trying to find an answer to this problem, and genuinely feel stuck on this one. Any help or suggestions would be immensely appreciated.
This is a completely brand new from scratch build, I've never worked with Unraid before so hopefully I'm missing something simple. I'm going to list the steps I've taken so far, but please let me know if there's a "best practice" for any of this stuff that I may have overlooked.
- Under Shares in Unraid, I performed the Add Share funcation to create a new share called "Media". I set this folder to have the SMB Security Settings of "Export: Yes" which to my understanding allows it to be viewable on the network. [connecting to it from my Windows PC to add files confirms this]
- Within this newly created "Media" share, I created two new folders: "Movies" and "TV Shows". As an example, Movies now lists it's directory as /mnt/user/Media/Movies . Which seems correct to me(?)
- I then copied my media files into that subfolder
- I installed the official Jellyfin Docker app. In the docker configuration I have Library (movies): set to "/mnt/user/Media/Movies" and Library (series): set to "/mnt/user/Media/TV Shows"
- Then, in Jellyfin itself, when I added the libraries for Movies and Shows I was able to navigate to the appropriate folders. For example, my movies library is currently reporting that it's scanning Folder: "/:/mnt/user/Media/Movies:ro"
- Now, that naming convention seems off to me, but I got to that folder by navigating to it within Jellyfin, so it seems like it should work.
Other than those things, I haven't done any other configuration to my Unraid instance or Jellyfin. Am I missing something obvious? Is there a better way I should be setting up my Media shares within Unraid/Jellyfin?
I've spent probably over two hours trying to find an answer to this problem, and genuinely feel stuck on this one. Any help or suggestions would be immensely appreciated.