The Dreaded File Permissions
Hello,
I have successfully mounted a windows share in ubuntu. Added it to /etc/fstab, made a creds file. Put them in 755 mode.
I can go into emby and add the movies share as a library with no issues.
But when I try to add the metadata share as an alternate location I get the error "emby server requires write access to this folder"
In the screenshot below I did an ls -l on the two mounts and as far as I can see the permissions are identical.
Why is one mount working (movi
You were not supposed to substitute your line with what I posted. It was so that you could review, compare and make changes to effect the permissions needed (add/replace).
Many people are using CIFS/SMB/NTFS with Emby on Linux. It can work just need to sort it out.
Removing the credentials is likely what caused it to fail. For the uid/gid you can use either the names or numeric values.
Try this:
<host/share> <local path> cifs credentials=/etc/cifs-credentials,rw,