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In their own words, "Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way." More information on Multimedia:Jellyfin can be found on their website.

This service was setup to enable multimedia streaming both locally and externally from my home as a replacement to Plex. Authorized users can navigate to my Jellyfin server and login. Access is managed locally and given to close friends and family members.

Deployment

This guide is intended for those attempting Jellyfin setup on a fresh server. For more information about the infrastructure behind this service, please see Servers:SAD-JELLY01.

Install and configure a virtual machine according to the directions located at Servers:SAD-Jelly01. This is an Authentication:Active Directory bound server as it must communicate with the back end file server Servers:SAD-FILES01 to pull media files. For security reasons, this server has read-only permissions to the multimedia share enabled by Users and Groups:sg_multimedia_ro.
Once the server is bound to the domain, add the following repos to the server by using the following commands:

# Fedora EPEL Repo
sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm
# RPM Fusion Non-Free
sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm
# Activate CRB Repo
dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb

Install the Jellyfin server and associated packages:

sudo dnf install jellyfin jellyfin-server jellyfin-web jellyfin-firewalld

Enable Jellyfin to start at boot with the following command:

sudo systemctl enable --now jellyfin

Allow Jellyfin through the firewall

# Add an exception to firewalld
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=jellyfin
# Restart firewalld
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Start Jellyfin for the first time and ensure the service is running.

# Start the Jellyfin service
sudo systemctl start jellyfin
# Check to see if the service is running
sudo systemctl status jellyfin

In your web browser navigate to http://SERVER-IP:8096. You may also use the server's hostname or a CNAME if you have it setup. Ensure you can reach the Jellyfin setup wizard and continue on to Post-Install Configuration.

Post-Install Configuration

Mount a SMB Network Drive on Rocky Linux

In my environment, all files are stored on Servers:SAD-FILES01. To access multimedia files, I created the service account Users and Groups:svc_jellyfin and gave it membership to service group Users and Groups:sg_multimedia_ro. This enables svc_jellyfin to have read-only access to the files stored in the Multimedia share.

Updates

Updates to Jellyfin are processed through the repos added during the above process. No further action at this time is needed to maintain this service other than regular monthly updates.

Status

This setup guide has successfully been deployed to sysadminafterdark production.

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-In my environment, all files are stored on [[Servers:SAD-FILES01]]. To access multimedia files, I created the service account [[Users and Groups:svc_jellyfin]] and gave it membership to service group [[Users and Groups:sg_multimedia_ro]]. This enables svc_jellyfil to have read-only access to the files stored in the Multimedia share.
+In my environment, all files are stored on [[Servers:SAD-FILES01]]. To access multimedia files, I created the service account [[Users and Groups:svc_jellyfin]] and gave it membership to service group [[Users and Groups:sg_multimedia_ro]]. This enables svc_jellyfin to have read-only access to the files stored in the Multimedia share.