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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
Oh!
Yes, I have two volumes but they never showed in the file manager, I'll try it right now.
It didn't work. Is it possible that jellyfin just don't have access? if so, how do I grant it access?
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.I agree, I will have to learn to do it. One headache now to avoid all future headaches.
I'll check them out, thanks.