bwbogie 1 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I've read through countless threads on this topic with similar situations and I cant find the solution. I have all my media on an external HD. When I'm setting up the server, I go to add a folder for the media, the file path doesn't show up. And when I manually type in the path I get; "The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again.". How can I specifically grant emby:emby permissions to access my external? When I use; ls -l /path/to/media Every file is permissioned my username and my group. How can I change this? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36879 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Hi there, have you taken a look at this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwbogie 1 Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 (edited) Yes I have. Ive tried doing these commands in Terminal; setfacl -m user:emby:rxw /home/myusername or to grant "read only" access to specific folders: setfacl -m user:emby:rx /home/myusername/Music setfacl -m user:emby:rx /home/myusername/Videos setfacl -m user:emby:rx /home/myusername/Pictures It wont let me change or add the permissions at all. Edited March 5, 2021 by bwbogie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwbogie 1 Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 I found the solution! sudo chown -R emby:emby /media/user/folder And now Emby recognises the external! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36879 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Thanks for the feedback ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark-in-dallas 86 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 You could also have resolved the issue by adding the emby user to your group with this command: usermod -a -G your_user_group emby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwbogie 1 Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 54 minutes ago, mark-in-dallas said: You could also have resolved the issue by adding the emby user to your group with this command: usermod -a -G your_user_group emby I've tried that as well, and didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfragger 39 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 On fedora this one worked for me setfacl -m user:emby:rxw /run/media/username Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36879 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 @bwbogie are you still having an issue with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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