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.
It sounds like in your situation, you’d create a shared folder where your media lives (smb or nfs) on the Synology and mount that share to the machine running jellyfin. Then adding the folder as a library will be the same as choosing a local folder.
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.
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:
if you have more than one volume you need to choose the good one
Edit: not sure if it was the question actually
In the long run you’ll want to specify where it lives. Manually you could use the
mountcommand, 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.This is what I do. Shared folder via NFS, mounted inside the VM (fstab), added to the volumes of the docker container in the compose file…