SOLVED: Media not showing up in libraries

[Kentros]

Run this command.  Insert your user name before the colon : .

Code:

sudo chown -R yourUser:jellyfin /Shows
sudo chmod -R 750 /Shows

Can you describe your setup?  What distro?  You should need to create a jellyfin user if Jellyfin is installed on the same machine.  It should have been created when you installed jellyfin (for package manager installs).

I have it running on Portainer if that answers your question. When ever I listed the users I didn't see a jellyfin user so thats why I created one.

[Kentros]

I have it setup on Portainer if that answers your question.

[TheDreadPirate]

If you are using Jellyfin in a container, there won't be a jellyfin user. When you setup the container you are supposed to provide a user ID and group ID (usually your user's UID and GID). Then the container runs as that UID/GID. So the UID/GID you provided needs to have permission to your media folder.

[Kentros]

ok so it was set to 1000 for both per the setup documentation. So if my username is "kentros" what does that command look like?

"sudo chown -R kentros /media/tv"

[TheDreadPirate]

Correct. Kentros needs to have permission to your library.

That command looks right. Also make sure that Kentros has r-x permissions on /media. That could mean either owning it or through the "others" permissions.

[Kentros]

This is what I get when I do a "ln -s" of the path that jellyfin is to

lrwxrwxrwx 1 kentros jellyfin 13 Nov 29 15:51 /media/tv -> /mnt/HDD1/tv/

and that mount point that the symbolic link refers to is:

drwxr-x--- 8 kentros root 4096 Dec 1 12:54 tv


I am not a huge linux user and I am truly trying to learn, I had plex set up in the past and didn't have too many issues so this not working is weird to me when the binds are the same in the container configuration. I appreciate you a ton!

[TheDreadPirate]

What are the permissions on /mnt and /mnt/HDD1? Symlinks don't bypass permissions on parent directories of the linked path.