SOLVED: Libraries

[soodoenim]

I am on Jellyfin Version 10.8.13 running on Ubuntu 22.04.4 and am trying to add the directories contained within an external hard drive to the libraries on Jellyfin. I found this thread on Reddit which seems to describe a solution to the problem - https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/commen...ad_access/ - however, when I type in the path to the external drive (as described in the Reddit thread) I get this readout:

$ sudo setfacl -m user:jellyfin:rxw /media/littlebox/Big Box 2
setfacl: /media/littlebox/Big: No such file or directory
setfacl: Box: No such file or directory
setfacl: 2: No such file or directory

Regardless of whether the solution described in this Reddit thread is the solution for me, the problem I am attempting to solve is that even though I have set the drive permissions and local network share options in the same way as the other external drive that's already supplying content to Jellyfin, I cannot add the directories contained on this new drive to the content libraries on Jellyfin.

[TheDreadPirate]

You have to put the path in quotes or escape the spaces in the folder name.

sudo setfacl -m user:jellyfin:rxw "/media/littlebox/Big Box 2"

or

sudo setfacl -m user:jellyfin:rxw /media/littlebox/Big\ Box\ 2

[soodoenim]

You have to put the path in quotes or escape the spaces in the folder name.

sudo setfacl -m user:jellyfin:rxw "/media/littlebox/Big Box 2"

or

sudo setfacl -m user:jellyfin:rxw /media/littlebox/Big\ Box\ 2

Thanks for this. I tried putting the directory path in quotes as you suggested, and it didn't give me the "No such file or directory" error message, so that seems to be a step in the right direction. However, I am still unable to add folders from that drive to my Jellyfin libraries. I've tried rebooting my system, and restarting Jellyfin. No luck.

[TheDreadPirate]

If it couldn't find the directory when you run the command then it didn't set the ACL. Ensure that it is actually there.

Code:

sudo cat /proc/mounts

Do you see big box 2 in the list?

[soodoenim]

If it couldn't find the directory when you run the command then it didn't set the ACL.  Ensure that it is actually there.

Code:

sudo cat /proc/mounts

Do you see big box 2 in the list?

I see this:  /media/littlebox/Big\040Box\0402 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0

[TheDreadPirate]

Ah. Its ext4. Good. I had assumed it was NTFS or something. We can just remove the ACL instead and use basic linux permissions.

Code:

sudo setfacl -b -R /media/littlebox
sudo chmod 755 /media/littlebox
sudo find "/media/littlebox/Big Box 2" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find "/media/littlebox/Big Box 2" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

This SHOULD set the permissions open enough for Jellyfin to read everything in Big Box 2.

[soodoenim]

Ah.  Its ext4.  Good.  I had assumed it was NTFS or something.  We can just remove the ACL instead and use basic linux permissions.

Code:

sudo setfacl -b -R /media/littlebox
sudo chmod 755 /media/littlebox
sudo find "/media/littlebox/Big Box 2" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find "/media/littlebox/Big Box 2" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

This SHOULD set the permissions open enough for Jellyfin to read everything in Big Box 2.

That worked!