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How do I give others access to my Jellyfin library?
I assume, you are asking how to allow remote (as in outside of your network) access. There are multiple options to achieve this goal:
Tailscale, Netbird, or Wireguard, depending on how many people you want to share with and the technical comfort of all parties
My technical comfort is high. Everyone else's is low
Expose it to the internet in a way you're comfortable then tell them login details including what to write for the domain.
Or just do what I do and set it up on their TV for them 🤷
Everyone else can learn.
You're the one with the goods.
Dude, do you have a mom? Have you met a boomer?
Yep.
Ghosted her, and the rest of my family, after they became MAGA nutjobs.
... Are they paying you for this valuable IT service you provide them?
They can always go back to Netflix or Hulu or whatever.
... unless you just do full stack, frontend+backend, custom software deployments... for free...?
I don't do shit for Boomers, for free.
Tell em to go buy a lawn mower and mow lawns to afford another enterprising local IT expert's services, or maybe they can introduce themselves to the president of internet piracy with a firm handshake or something, I'm sure that'll work.
If they throw a temper tantrum, remind them the full term is Baby Boomer.
people actually cutting off their parents is kinda sad. Not that I hope they did something else besides vote to earn you ghosting them, there better be damn good reason. Cutting off your parents is a huge deal. One of my new coworkers suggested I cut off my own twin brother because he’s a manager at Walmart, and she was someone I knew for like a month. I was shocked to learn she knew people who cut off their parents for not understanding gender neutral pronouns… I get it because nobody wants their parents to cut them off or hurt them but in this situation it wasn’t even they didn’t accept their child they just didn’t really understand the pronouns
My parents are abusive idiot QAnon MAGA fascists who spent their lives giving me CPTSD via their constant gaslighting, magical/conspiratorial thinking, and overwhelming narcissism.
My dad even makes ghost guns in his garage, builds AR pattern rifles with no serial numbers... at least as of the last time I interacted with him, that was the final breakpoint.
If you can't understand that, or just think its sad, you've clearly no concept of what those kinds of people are like.
You know that instagram/tiktok/youtube channel where the daughter and son are just talking with their completely insane MAGA parents who would literally be ok with Trump or ICE killing them, their children?
That's 30% of the country.
30% of families... that's the parents.
Hey, your choice is your choice. And I certainly don’t know you or your parents, if my parents flew swastikas I wouldn’t talk to them either, but that’s a little different, no? My mom is a SUPER liberal, and she is pro ICE, pro Israel, says some pretty heinous things about other races, but I still do love her because she’s my mother and did teach me away from the right, kind of. I would never cut her off.
Also the gun thing might be something that could land your father in prison holy shit. Idk how this website works much but be careful, though honestly it might make you feel better if he’s locked up 😅. Them guns you describe is HOT!
I actively tried and failed to get him arrested for it.
He belongs in a prison, he has done many more crimes than that.
And uh, no, its no different. MAGA are American Nazis, they're directly analagous to the OG German Nazis in a stupendous amount of ways, even if they are not literally flying Swastikas.
Frankly I have no idea how you can have a .ml account and at the same time not realize that MAGA literally are the 21st century, American version of Nazis.
Make them a user, give them the login.
Exposing your jellyfin on the Internet is much more difficult and requires knowledge of networking and security best practices. It is not as easy as "just giving someone a login" though for those with the know how I would easily recommend it over Plex.
They didn’t ask how to expose it on the internet. They asked how to give others access to the library. If they live in a dorm or with roommates it’s as easy as creating a login. If they wanted to give people access over the internet they would have asked that.
Also they said they are very technical, so clearly the problem isn’t that they don’t know how to expose services on the internet, they most likely didn’t know that jellyfin has users or multiple logins.
I mean I've done it, it required buying a cheap domain and I found out most people don't give a crap about my server even if I offer them access 🥲
Do we know if Plex has been audited? Or is just that it is so much easier to do and Plex says it is secure so people think it is secure? That is often the case with closed source software.
Not the point. When setting up remote access Plex is easy, Jellyfin is not.
Yes that is true, but the commenter I replied to specifically mentioned security and it always comes up when people compare the two that Jellyfin security isn't great.
You're thinking of Plex
No I’m not, I’m running jellyfin with ten users.