Auteur: Admong

Done on Debian, Docker required. Mind the folder names.

Preparation – Mount a samba share via fstab

create a folder/mountpoint:
mkdir /media/video

For safety create a credentials file in your home folder called .smbcred
nano .smbcred

Paste and customise
username=shareusername
password=sharepassword
Save and change permissions:
chmod 600 ~/.smbcred

Edit fstab:
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Paste and customise:
//yourserver/yourshare /media/video cifs credentials=/home/youruser/.smbcred 0 0

Save & exit, reload fstab:
mount -a

Check if the folder is accessible.

Running Jellyfin

Create folders for Docker bind mounts:
sudo mkdir /usr/jellyfin
sudo mkdir /usr/jellyfin/config
sudo mkdir /usr/jellyfin/cache

Get container:
docker pull jellyfin/jellyfin

Start Jellyfin using the folders created before:
sudo docker run -d --name jellyfin --user 1000:1000 --net=host --volume /usr/jellyfin/config --volume /usr/jellyfin/cache --mount type=bind,source=/media/windows,target=/media --restart=unless-stopped jellyfin/jellyfin

Check user and group values if necessary. (id -u youruser and id -g youruser)

Jellyfin should be up and the cifs share should be available, check http://yourserver:8096 and finish the wizard

In case of issues or more info check https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/installing.html

Using Windows shares

Jellyfin does not handle SMB, media folders on Windows machines should be mounted on the local server in /etc/fstab. Point docker to the mountpoint.

No use for shady tools. Just run the following from the command line:

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

After messing around with certificates the Web GUI unceremoniously crashed and couldn’t be persuaded to come back to life. After using

sudo systemctl restart lighttpd

sudo systemctl status lighttpd

* lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2021-06-06 22:37:34 CEST; 20s ago
Process: 20876 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=255)
Process: 20873 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 20876 (code=exited, status=255)


The last thing I did was to add a certificate for the Web Gui, cf_origin.cert. This errored out and the gui failed because I probably clicked the wrong thing. GTFO.

Check if the error is still present in the configuration. First run configure mode, then:

run show configuration |grep cert

description "certbottest 80"
cert-file /home/bas/cf_origin.cert <------------
[edit]

‘T is.

GUI is a service in EdgeOS or whatever it’s called so:

show service gui

cert-file /home/bas/cf_origin.cert
http-port 80
https-port 443
listen-address 192.168.2.1
older-ciphers enable
[edit]

The specific line has to be deleted. Just use the value the specific line starts with (cert-file in this case)

delete service gui cert-file

show service gui

-cert-file /home/bas/cf_origin.cert <--- note the hyphen
http-port 80
https-port 443
listen-address 192.168.2.1
older-ciphers enable
[edit]


It’s deletion confirmed:

commit

Le double check: show service gui

http-port 80
https-port 443
listen-address 192.168.2.1
older-ciphers enable
[edit]

Restart lighttpd:

sudo systemctl restart lighttpd

sudo systemctl status lighttpd

* lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-06-06 22:50:28 CEST; 30s ago
Process: 21730 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 21733 (lighttpd)
CGroup: /system.slice/lighttpd.service
|-21733 /usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
`-21737 python /var/www/python/gui.py
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Joy to the world, the GUI can be accessed again. Basically the whole thing revolves around grepping the thing you messed up or looking it up old-school in the configuration: run show configuration. This will narrow it down.