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Jellyfin and docker a Plex alternative on Synology NAS

I am using Plex package on my Synology DS918+ for a long time now with a paying plex pass. I wanted to find an open source alternative which provides me a some features like user management, a decent mobile client, controlled access to library, etc…

Jellyfin Demo

Jellyfin seems to provide all what I need. I installed it on my NAS using the regular docker image, proxied via synology application portal and a Let’s encrypt certificate.

Installation procedure is here and I just had to modify the docker instructions to fit my needs and point the media folder on my NAS.

docker run -d 
 --volume /path/to/config:/config 
 --volume /path/to/cache:/cache 
 --volume /path/to/media:/media 
 --user 1000:1000 
 --net=host 
 --restart=unless-stopped 
 jellyfin/jellyfin

Really easy to implement, Jellyfin provides the functions I wanted, I need now to experiment the mobile applications, as far as I can see the android client works well but sometimes it freezes when I put it on pause or change content.

I will probably soon cancel my plex pass subscription 😉

Clamav for Nextcloud on Docker

I am using a Nextcloud docker container for several years on my own NAS to synchronize my files and stay away from dropbox, google drive, etc…

I share this nextcloud installation with some family members and I want to make sure the file upload is going through an antivirus.

Nextcloud comes with an antivirus application. You can install it from the nextcloud interface.

The nextcloud antivirus app checks the files during the upload using clamav. This works perfectly when Nextclous is running on a server or VM, but adding it to the my nextcloud container is not a good solution.

I looked for a docker version of clamav and found this: https://mko-x.github.io/docker-clamav/

The installation is really straightforward:

docker run -d -p 3310:3310 --name clamav mk0x/docker-clamav

Clamav container will be accessible on port 3310.

Next step is to link your nextcloud container to the clamav container, use the –link flag with your nextcloud container.

--link clamav:av

On my synology NAS I can do it via the GUI:

My clamav container is now known as “av” by the nextcloud container.

Then configure Nextcloud antivirus app to connect to your clamav container: Under Settings > Security.

The host name is the alias “av” declared above

To test your installation, download some EICAR test files. These files are anti malware testfile and will not harm your installation they just contains some virus-like signature.

Upload them to your nextcould system and you should see on your interface something like:

You can have a look a your clamav container log:

docker logs -f clamav

and would see something like this:

Sat Feb 8 07:28:53 2020 -> instream(172.17.0.8@55906): Clamav.Test.File-7(44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f:68) FOUND Sat Feb 8 07:28:53 2020 -> instream(172.17.0.8@55910): Clamav.Test.File-7(44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f:68) FOUND Sat Feb 8 07:28:53 2020 -> instream(172.17.0.8@55912): Clamav.Test.File-7(44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f:68) FOUND Sat Feb 8 07:28:54 2020 -> instream(172.17.0.8@55936): Clamav.Test.File-7(44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f:68) FOUND

The clamav antivirus detects the malware signature of the test files and prevent them to be uploaded.