The purpose of the project is to setup Jellyfin server for home media and Samba for file sharing.

Installing Jellyfin Server

Install HTTPS transfort for APT is not installed

sudo apt install apt-transport-https

Import Jellyfin GPG signing key

wget -O - https://repo.jellyfin.org/debian/jellyfin_team.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

Add Jellyfin Repository

sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list
echo "deb [arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repo.jellyfin.org/debian $( lsb_release -c -s ) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list

Finally update and install jellyfin

sudo apt update
sudo apt install jellyfin

After install Jellyfin, start jellyfin service

sudo systemctl enable jellyfin
sudo systemctl start jellyfin

To check if jellyfin service is started

sudo systemctl status jellyfin

Setup Jellyfin

Once jellyfin is installed, open the browser and navigate to - http://<domain-name>:8096 or http://<IP-Address>:8096 URL.

You can see the jellyfin welcome screen. Select preferred language and create a new user for Jellyfin.

And then choose folders where your media files are using Add Media Library use the content type, i.e., audio, video, movies etc. Similarly add all the media files. Choose Metadata language and configure if you want to allow remote connections and finally click Finish to complete Jellyfiin configuration.

Now login to Jellyfin login page with username and password you created earlier. And after your libraries are scanned you can see your media in the home of Jellyfin.

And voila you have setup your Jellyfin Server.

Installing Samba File Sharing

Install samba using the following command

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

To configure Samba open the smb.conf file using the following command.?

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Scroll down the file and add the following

[global]
netbios name = Pi
server string = The Pi File Center
workgroup = WORKGROUP

[HOMEPI]
path = /home/pi
comment = No comment
writeable=Yes
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public=no

You can also add your external storage disk which is mounted to your Raspberry Pi

We now need to add Pi as a Samba user. Enter the following command:

sudo smbpasswd -a pi

Enter a new password

And at last restart the Samba service using the following command

sudo service smbd restart

And with that you have created the file server which you can access with any device on the network.