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[Macallik86]

New point release for Jellyfin but with some breaking changes:

Jellyfin 10.11.0 | Jellyfin

We are pleased to bring you Jellyfin 10.11.0, our new stable release. This is probably one of, if not the, biggest and most impactful releases we've done yet, with some massive backend changes to improve performance and long-term expandability and maintainability. This release has been a long...

jellyfin.org

Edit: It also addresses some security updates, so the suggestion is to upgrade ASAP, but there are still lots of kinks being worked out according to the forum thread. Since my server is behind cgnat and no ports are open on my LAN, imma give it another week or two before pulling the trigger.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

I'm in the process of switching over to Jellyfin. For now, I just have it running locally, but I'd like to open it up for family and friends soon. Do you guys have yours running behind a reverse proxy and attached to a domain?

I don't really know much about this stuff,. But when I was thinking about setting up a reverse proxy for Plex people kept saying that it was a violation of Cloudflare's terms of service and I gave up on it

 

[Ish Gibor]

I'm in the process of switching over to Jellyfin. For now, I just have it running locally, but I'd like to open it up for family and friends soon. Do you guys have yours running behind a reverse proxy and attached to a domain?

I don't really know much about this stuff,. But when I was thinking about setting up a reverse proxy for Plex people kept saying that it was a violation of Cloudflare's terms of service and I gave up on it

It probably has to do with the content you’re going to upload. You need to read the terms of services.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

It probably has to do with the content you’re going to upload. You need to read the terms of services.

How does everyone else have their Jellyfin set up?

 

[boogers]

How does everyone else have their Jellyfin set up?

i use jellyfin but its hosted locally. are you setting it up remotely or locally?

 

[Sonny Bonds]

i use jellyfin but its hosted locally. are you setting it up remotely or locally?

I've got it set up for local play on my Unraid server, but I want to open it up for family and friends to watch stuff remotely once I get everything good to go.

 

[Ish Gibor]

How does everyone else have their Jellyfin set up?

Local with a Synology server.

 

[Macallik86]

My jellyfin is local as well. I run netbird on a cheap VPS but it's probably overkill tbh.

I'd look into something like wg-easy personally... get the hang of it w/ my personal setup, then share links to jellyfin for others once I get the hang of it

 

[boogers]

I've got it set up for local play on my Unraid server, but I want to open it up for family and friends to watch stuff remotely once I get everything good to go.

you could buy a URL and point the A record to your IP address, or use something like dyndns. highly doubt your ISP is sniffing port 8096, they only really care about ports 80/8080/25 IME. id use port forwarding or just throw it in the DMZ if you trust it. just add accounts for them and you should be good to go

 

[Allen Poe]

How does everyone else have their Jellyfin set up?

running mine locally off a laptop with an 8-bay HDD hub connected via usb 3,0

 

[Macallik86]

Haven't seen too much coverage on this. They are popular w/ docker containers (but by default aren't exposed to the internet). If something is misconfigured, it's a very risky situation (10 CVE score) that might warrant double checking your setup:

#RediShell: Redis/Valkey Get ‘Perfect 10’ Critical RCE Vuln

Redis hell: CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in ubiquitous cloud storage layer. PATCH NOW.

securityboulevard.com

Make sure your valkey is up-to-date for all of your containers, or reach out to maintainers and make sure they're aware. I think something like this should quickly point containers to look into:

ss -tlnp | rg '6379|6380'
Make sure your Redis/Valkey is only bound to localhost (127.0.0.1 and [::1]), not 0.0.0.0 or a public IP. Talk to an LLM if you have questions

 

[Allen Poe]

my laptop stopped connecting to my NAS when I updated to Windows 11. My main rig is still on windows 10, and has been connecting fine until today. none of the "fixes" i googled online worked, but chatgpt helped me troubleshoot. seems like disconnecting my mapped drives, logging into my NAS with its IP from command prompt, and re-mapping the drives seemed to do the trick.

 

[The Phoenix]

I've got it set up for local play on my Unraid server, but I want to open it up for family and friends to watch stuff remotely once I get everything good to go.

Not to divert the topic any, but how are you enjoying Unraid? I'm trying to decide between Unraid and TrueNas and both have their own fanbases and fanboys it seems. I'd be interested to hear what you like most about it.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Not to divert the topic any, but how are you enjoying Unraid? I'm trying to decide between Unraid and TrueNas and both have their own fanbases and fanboys it seems. I'd be interested to hear what you like most about it.

I like it a lot. You can use different sized hard drives in your storage array. There’s a ton of apps and a large community, so it's easier to find resources on setting things up. I had some issues (and almost switched to TrueNAS), but I fixed everything, so it's all good now. I'm liking it a lot.