Hi again, Running 10.11.5 on Debian Trixie kernel 6.12.57 and I can’t get Jellyfin to see my connected drive. Here’s the permissions for my drive:
velummortis@velummortis-20bts1rt02:~$ ls -l /media/velummortis/d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f
total 240
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 02:52 1-100
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 20:29 'Bi Chun Mu - Dance in the Sky'
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 16:46 Chor.Lau.Heung.1979.Complete.720p.WEB-DL.H.264.AAC-KMX
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 20:17 'Dance of Breaking Sky (1980)'
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 02:20 Dance.Of.Breaking.Sky.S01.1990.1080p.YT.WEB-DL.AAC.x264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 04:28 Deep.Rooted.Tree.1983.S01.SD.WEB-DL.AAC.AVC
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 16384 Sep 27 18:59 Empress.Myeongseong.S01.2001.1080p.YT.WEB-DL.AAC.x264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 13:32 Hong.Guk.Young.2001.S01.720p.iMBC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 21:55 Jang.Hee.Bin.S01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Snowy
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 12288 Sep 27 16:21 'King Gwanggaeto the Great'
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 29 01:00 Kings.woman.S01.NF.WEB-DL.1080p.H.264.AAC2.0
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 20480 Sep 28 01:25 Ladies.of.the.Palace.S01.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC-AppleTor
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 16384 Sep 27 13:17 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 00:20 Namhan.Mountain.Castle.1986.720p.iMBC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 12288 Sep 27 21:04 Queen.In.Hyeon.1988.720p.iMBC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 36864 Sep 29 15:10 Story.of.a.Mermaid.S01.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-MrHulk
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 20480 Sep 28 03:10 'Tears of the Dragon - 1996 - 159 - 480p'
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 00:04 The.Imjin.War.1985.720p.iMBC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 01:43 The.King.of.Chudong.Palace.1983.720p.iMBC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 12288 Sep 28 06:07 The.Memoirs.of.Lady.Hyegyeong.1988.S01.1080p.WAVVE.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-unco@AvistaZ
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 17:03 The.Royal.Road.S01.1991.480p.YT.WEB-DL.AAC.x264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 17:17 The.Tale.of.Lady.Ok.2024
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 02:16 The.Young.Warriors.S01.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-Cezane
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 01:33 'Time of Dynasty (1990) [Complete] 1080p WEB-DL AVC AAC'
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 19:56 Tragic.Grass.1992.S01.1080i.SBS.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 3 velummortis video 4096 Dec 27 01:13 'Watched Series'
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 03:30 West.Palace.1995.S01.720p.WAVVE.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 02:06 'Wind and Cloud (1982)'
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 00:12 Women.of.Legend.Hwang.Jin.Yi.1982.720p.iMBC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 22:28 Women.of.Legend.Jang.Hee.Bin.1981.720p.iMBC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 28 01:33 Women.of.Legend.Silver.Knife.1982.720p.iMBC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG
drwxrwxr-x 2 velummortis video 4096 Sep 27 19:46 'Wu Ze Tian (1995) [Complete] 486p WEBRip AVC AAC'
video is the name of the group my username and jellyfin share drive access on. I have the group on 7 yet it won’t see my drive. Is there something I missed?
What worked for me was to mount with fstab by UUID and set the group ID to your video group.
UUID=“your uuid” /mnt/external exfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=“your group id”,umask=002,nofail 0 0
Four spaces before the line you want to codify :)
e.g.
UUID=“your uuid” /mnt/external exfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=“your group id”,umask=002,nofail 0 0vs non-formatted
UUID=“your uuid” /mnt/external exfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=“your group id”,umask=002,nofail 0 0
What are the permissions on the directory itself, not the files? Is the directory owned by group ‘video’?
velummortis@velummortis-20bts1rt02:~$ ls -ld /media /media/velummortis /media/velummortis/d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 17 16:27 /media drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 4096 Dec 25 08:30 /media/velummortis drwxrwxr-x 34 velummortis video 4096 Dec 27 01:08 /media/velummortis/d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0fHere’s the permissions for the directory and parents - strangely enough Jellyfin can still see
/mediaand/media/velummortisdespite not owning themAre the files within the folders the media folder also with permissions 775 (rwxrwxr-x)? The actual .mkv .mp4 or whatever files themselves should be the same permissions as the parent folder(s). Could be worth doing a chmod -R 0775 d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f if you’re not sure.
You probably already tried this but just in case: In the Jellyfin admin pages, in Libraries, try removing that media library, then re-add the media library and when adding Folders paste in your entire media folder path/name: /media/velummortis/d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f
The reason I mention that is that I did a quick test here with a bad permissioned folder, added the media folder, Jellyfin couldn’t see anything in it obviously. But even after I fixed the folder permissions Jellyfin still wasn’t seeing the media - I had to remove the library entirely and then re-add it to force Jellyfin to attempt to scan the folder with new 775 world permissions.
I haven’t been able to add the library in question yet, but I did do the recursive chmod.
Example of a filelist:
velummortis@velummortis-20bts1rt02:~$ ls -l /media/velummortis/d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f/1-100 total 94369612 -rwxrwxr-x 1 velummortis video 976718800 Aug 7 2020 Jang.Hee.Bin.E001.mp4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 velummortis video 926402249 Aug 7 2020 Jang.Hee.Bin.E002.mp4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 velummortis video 970775362 Aug 7 2020 Jang.Hee.Bin.E003.mp4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 velummortis video 963500405 Aug 7 2020 Jang.Hee.Bin.E004.mp4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 velummortis video 975813578 Aug 7 2020 Jang.Hee.Bin.E005.mp4
Also using Debian + Jellyfin normal install with basic permissions (in the future maybe I’ll try this with ACL permissions).
Starting out I tinkered with creating a specific user group for jellyfin but it never quite worked right… in the end I reset the jellyfin user/service back to defaults and set permissions on my media folders to 0775 so that the jellyfin service can read/execute (no write) as the world permission bit. Also made sure to set permissions recursively (chmod -R). For me it’s fine though keep in mind setting 5 for world does mean all users with access to your system can read and traverse through those media folders.
I had a hard time getting jellyfin to work on debian as well. I cant find the thread that helped me but I remember having to
sudo setfacl -R -m u:jellyfin:rx /path/to/libraryI looked this up from my bash history.I think I also had to chmod 0777 the media library as well.
I did find a link that shows a similar solution to the above from 2024. He does say that this solution is not optimal.
How is Jellyfin setup? In Docker?
No, straight from apt
