Learning_Curve 3 Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Hi, I'm running my Emby server on Manjaro Linux. The PC has a number of internal HDDs that are mounted at startup, and also shared via NFS. Each of the four HDDs contains one half of my Movies and TV libraries. I created a user and group 'media', and added my user, Emby, and one other service to the group. I set all the mount points to be owned by my user and the media group. Emby is able to read all the libraries, but can't delete something if I so choose. Interestingly, the other service has full rw permission. The folders are mounted in a folder /data, again owned by my user and the media group. I've used setfacl to allow my user, emby, and the other service to specifically create and delete files. Output of ls -l /data ls -l ✔ zero@zero-desktop total 136 drwxrwsrwx+ 910 zero media 73728 Nov 15 15:50 Movies drwxrwsrwx+ 349 zero media 36864 Nov 18 13:34 Movies2 drwxrwsrwx+ 6 zero zero 4096 Nov 10 05:27 Storage drwxrwsrwx+ 49 zero media 4096 Nov 17 06:44 TV drwxrwsrwx+ 35 zero media 4096 Nov 13 17:22 TV2 Not sure what other info to provide. I've actually tried setting the owner as emby:emby, and it didn't make a difference. I've also tried other variations involving my user, my group, the 'media' user and group, the other service's user and group, each time followed by either restarting emby-server.service, or an outright system reboot. Still, when I try and delete a file from within the Emby interface, I get an error about not having write permission. How to I get Emby write access, despite the fact that it should already have it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36879 Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Hi, have you taken a look at this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learning_Curve 3 Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 Hi, yes, i did see that thread. The opening post is really just a primer on linux file permissions and, while I'm no expert, I'm not entirely ignorant of how ownership/access works. The rest of it is 3 pages of 20 different people having 50 different problems. Still, on Page 3, someone mentioned making sure the mounting options in fstab were correct. Sure enough, I was mounting as uid=1000,gid=1000. I just changed it to uid=1000 and gid=1004 (media). Now I can delete files within within Emby. I still don't get how sickchill worked and emby didn't, but I'll still take this as a win. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36879 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Thanks for the feedback ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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