It is a synology NAS and all forum posts and tutorials say to install container managerand set up docker. Well tough luck because my model doesn't seem to be compatible with container manager.

Ok, I install the the server in a pc running linux mint, now when I try to create a library I can't point where the files are.

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was the idea but it comes to give it the path to the folder I don't know what path I have to give it, the one I have from the file manager (smb://nas/videos/) jellyfin says it is not a valid path.

My guess is that I need to give it the path to where it is mounted but I can't find it or even know if it is somewhere at all.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On jellyfin you have to give the local path on the server, where your SMB share is mounted

The smb path to mount from Synology is like:

smb://[NAS]/volume1/[name of your share]

if you have more than one volume you need to choose the good one

Edit: not sure if it was the question actually

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

In the long run you’ll want to specify where it lives. Manually you could use the mount command, but really you want the share to mount every time you reboot the machine so it’s always available. If you’re after a GUI app to do that, check out smb4k. I think that has options to do automatic mounting to a directory of your choosing (the path would typically be something like /media/<your username>/<synology hostname>/<name of share>).

If you want to do this from the command line, look into autofs, which lets you define a configuration and automatically mount an SMB share whenever your system needs it.