Mac & Pi SMB rw access

[PDdave 6]

Hi,

I read the "File Permissions" article and others online but I still cant seem to solve my issue.

I have a USB HDD attached to my Pi4 (BookwormLite 64bit) Emby server which I can access on my network. I use my mac to rip DVD's and upload it to the HDD. No problem.

The problem is Emby cant write metadata to the file as it doesn't have permission. I have added emby as a user (usermod -a -G users emby) but I am not sure how to give both my mac & emby rw permissions.

Currently on fstab I have my macuser:

UUID=12345 /mnt/hdd1 vfat defaults,uid=macuser,gid=macuser,rw,nofail,noatime 0 0

Do I just add:

UUID=12345/mnt/hdd1 vfat defaults, rw, uid=emby,gid=users

 

Thanks for any help!

 

Edited June 28, 2024 by PDdave
clarity

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, did you figure this out? What server install package are you using?

[PDdave 6]

Hi Luke,

 

Yes I figured it out. If you use fat format this works as chmod doesn't. Just replace your information below in fstab after setting up samba mount:

UUID=****** /mnt/diskname vfat uid=username,gid=username,nofail,noatime,umask=0000   0   0

 

The important point is the unmask=0000 which gives rwx to all users and groups. Now I can access and upload my movies to the disk and emby writes metadata to it.

Hope this helps and if there is a better way do let us know.

 

[PDdave 6]

P.S Since I use a HDD and not flash drive I am not sure if noatime is important or required!