Using curlftpfs with jellyfin to access media stored on old NAS? (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all. Very new potential jellyfin user trying to set things up.

I have one of those mini fanless mini PC boxes with Proxmox and pfsense installed. Jellyfin has been installed as a lxc via one of the helper scripts. Set it up and it works fine.

I'm now trying to set it up to access an old Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ that I have lying around. It's been setup with SMB/CIFS as well as FTP access. I'm considering disabling SMB/CIFS access since I think I don't need that anymore. I think the NAS only supports TLS 1.2 protocol and it's probably safer to disable it security wise. After searching around, I've come across curlftpfs which seems to be able to mount a ftp server as a local directly which i can then use as a library for jellyfin.

Is this the best way or is there a better alternative I can consider?

Thanks.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Why don't you try NFS? For me it's a lot easier to set up...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Because insecure FTP access is already enabled on the NAS ;-)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I tried to mount the share as NFS, but it didn't seem to work from the console in the container. I ended up using CIFS which worked.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Probably the container does not have the required NFS client/libraries, but you don't have to do this inside the container... You mount it on the host and share it via a docker volume with the container.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I finally got around to getting things set up, and for some reason, the container I created for jellyfin refused to allow NFS mounting.

I ended up trying a "Turnkey Media Server" template which ended up working. It also didn't allow NFS mounts, but it did allow CIFS mounting, which I used. Jellyfin is now refreshing the library. So far so good.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe you could try swapping out the OS? What model is it? Its likely insecure due to a lack of updates anyway

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

CIFS is probably more robust than curlftpfs, but I'd probably just go full NFS on it if you care about performance.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I ended up mounting the NAS share via CIFS and it appears to be working.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I’ve never even heard of curlftpfs, but I can’t think of a reason why it wouldn’t work. You should try it out and let us know… I tried NFS once and didn’t like it.