HDD permissions issue, need some help.

craptakular · 8 Jul 2009 at 09:30

Hiya,

Right me little home server has one final hiccup to overcome!

I have a 1 TB drive, mounted to mnt/storage1/ I have Chown -R mediatomb so the owner runs as mediatomb. This means that mediatomb can then scan my media correctly.

The trouble is changing the ownership of the 1tb drive from dean to mediatomb then borks the permissions for samba, ftp & sabnzbd.

Is it best to change the init script of mediatomb to run under dean user? or something else?

The trouble is if I change the init script to user dean and it said there was a permissions issue for sqlite database.

I'm abit stumped at the mo.

Dj_Jestar · 8 Jul 2009 at 10:09

changing owner for an entire driver is a bad idea..

craptakular · 8 Jul 2009 at 10:11

yes but whats the fix?

Dj_Jestar · 8 Jul 2009 at 10:20

go through each directory/file and revert the permissions, then add the user(s) you wish to access to the group that has permission.

craptakular · 8 Jul 2009 at 10:57

ok, what I have done is create a group with addgrp called media_write and added it to mnt/storage1

then nano/etc/group & added media_write:mediatomb,dean

rebooted and mediatomb still doesnt have permission. now rebooting the server but going to try mediatomb as the owner and pray samba etc etc work

Dj_Jestar · 8 Jul 2009 at 11:03

what you should have done before irreparably ruining it, is just add the user mediatomb to the group samba.

craptakular · 8 Jul 2009 at 11:11

Dj_Jestar said:
what you should have done before irreparably ruining it, is just add the user mediatomb to the group samba.

oh, i can fix it! maybe...

Dj_Jestar · 8 Jul 2009 at 11:15

you're better off scrapping it and starting again (providing there is no data to be lost)

craptakular · 8 Jul 2009 at 12:36

Fixed it!

Had to do this:

apt-get install mediatomb

cd /etc/init.d/

chmod -x mediatomb

chmod 777 mediatomb

sudo /etc/default/mediatomb

change group to media_write

edit this file to get avi support in ps3:

sudo nano /etc/mediatomb/config.xml

Instructions in this thread:

http://www.psu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75619

sudo addgrp media_write

sudo /etc/group

add dean,mediatomb (to media_write)

sudo chgrp media_write /mnt/storage1

sudo chmod 770 /mnt/storage1 -R

http://192.168.0.10:49152/ for web ui, add in your folders.

Dj_Jestar · 8 Jul 2009 at 13:01

that's hideous.. 777 on a system executable? 770 on an entire drive?

craptakular · 8 Jul 2009 at 13:35

what should they be then?

Dj_Jestar · 8 Jul 2009 at 13:37

untouched. Just add the user for mediatomb to the group that already has access, i.e. samba.

BigglesPiP · 8 Jul 2009 at 19:41

Make a user called "whateveryoulike"

Code:

chown oxy mnt/storage1/ #your name
chgrp whateveryoulike mnt/storage1/

Then add mediatomb and samba to the group "whateveryoulike", and set the 2nd permissions byte to the access you would like mediatomb and samba to have.

Dj_Jestar · 9 Jul 2009 at 11:02

Even that is unnecessary, surely? Just add the group that *already has* access to the drive, to the mediatomb user.

BigglesPiP · 9 Jul 2009 at 23:23

Don't users go in groups?

Dj_Jestar · 10 Jul 2009 at 11:03

Depends on context.. I'm used to looking at what groups a user has (with `id` or `groups`) not what users a group has.