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Kind of a quick off the cuff question.... but is it difficult to get a docker hosted jellyfin server accessible outside of lan safely?

I have tailscale and a VPN I can use for my own devices but would like to be able to access it safely without needing those.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I love Jellyfin but I would absolutely not make it accessible over the public internet. A VPN is the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm thinking maybe just have family sign up for tailscale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why not just run your own WireGuard instance? I have a pivpn vm for it and it works great. You could also just put jellyfin behind a TLS terminating reverse proxy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a pain to get non technical family members to use. If you're willing to break the non web app you could always put it behind an authenticating proxy (which is what I do for myself outside of VPN, setting up a VPN on a phone is obnoxious and I only look at metadata anyway on my phone)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or headscale, works like a charm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why not just run your own WireGuard instance?

CGNAT is a big reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, that way you can set ACLs, you they can only access the jellyfin ports + the ports you allow them to.

Also, tailacale DNS.

The fact that tailscale has google/apple/etc logon integration will also help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, i didn't think this is a link 😅😅😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, no problem!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately a lot of these issues are architectural issues inherited from Emby