Jellyfin

Introduction

Jellyfin is a usefull tool to organize your media.

Setup with Ubuntu 24.04

This is a tutorial to setup Jellyfin on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Mount SMB Share

#Get root rights
sudo su -

#Install cifs-utils
apt install cifs-utils

#Create mount point
mkdir /media/jellyfin

#Create mount credentials
touch smb.cred && chmod 600 smb.cred && vi smb.cred
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#Insert mount credentials
username=<SMB share user>
password=<smb share pw>
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#Add mount config
vi /etc/fstab 
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#Insert mount config
//<SMB share ip>/<Share directory> /media/jellyfin cifs credentials=/root/smb.cred 0 0
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#Reload systemctl daemon
systemctl daemon-reload 

#Mount share
mount -a

#Check share
ll /media/jellyfin/

#Reboot for good mesure
reboot now

Install Jellyfin

#Source https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux/
curl https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash

Setup application

Naming of Shows:

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows