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quietcornerlinux

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Registered: 2022-06-08

Posts: 25

[solved] Jellyfin Permissions

I have an internal disk mounted at `/run/media/hdd`. I am trying to get Jellyfin to access the folder "movies" on that disk.

```
$ sudo groupadd media
$ sudo usermod -aG media jellyfin
$ sudo usermod -aG media keiljr
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /run/media/hdd/movies
$ sudo chown :media /run/media/hdd/movies
```

So far, this has not worked. Any ideas?

----------

Issue resolved! Permissions needed to be set on the directory for the disk. The following commands are now corrected.

```
$ sudo groupadd media
$ sudo usermod -aG media jellyfin
$ sudo usermod -aG media keiljr
$ sudo chmod 775 /run/media/hdd
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /run/media/hdd/movies
$ sudo chown :media /run/media/hdd
```

Last edited by quietcornerlinux (2024-10-14 13:08:06)

astralc

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Registered: 2022-09-17

Posts: 94

Re: [solved] Jellyfin Permissions

do jellyfin have +x access (and maybe +r?) for all the folders above this?
what is the error jellyfin show when you add the folder to a library?

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: [solved] Jellyfin Permissions

The default Jellyfin user is jellyfin and not Jellyfin.

quietcornerlinux

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Registered: 2022-06-08

Posts: 25

Re: [solved] Jellyfin Permissions

The default Jellyfin user is jellyfin and not Jellyfin.

That was a spelling error on this post, not my system. I corrected it in the original post. Thank you.

quietcornerlinux

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Registered: 2022-06-08

Posts: 25

Re: [solved] Jellyfin Permissions

do jellyfin have +x access (and maybe +r?) for all the folders above this?
what is the error jellyfin show when you add the folder to a library?

I resolved the issue by taking your advice. `/run/media/hdd` needed proper permissions as well. Directories further up the tree can stay as the default settings of 755 and root:root. I will update my original post to reflect such.