It was way easier than I thought it would be to get started. I put Sparky Linux on an 18 year old laptop and moved a bunch of movies and shows over to it, got Tailscale squared away, and now I can watch my media ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD. The only problem is storage. Jellyfin doesn’t recognize my external drive for some reason and says the path is invalid. Is there a simple solution I’m missing?
Also I’m just stoked I was able to do this. I know I just followed a recipe, but it’s a pretty cool feeling having all my music and shows right there, and I don’t have to pay some middle man one red can’t to access media I already own.
Check permissions of the external drive, and set owner to jellyfin group. Give rw permissions to that group/drive. I went through similar with my external drives. It was a permissions issue.
Read permissions should be enough, I’ve got mine in a freebsd jail with the media dataset mounted into it read only.
I’d do red/write and enable nfo files alongside the media files.
Then I’d use an admin account for admin stuff and a regular user without any edit permissions.