nimble;201279 Wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and have an external hd with all my music > on it. Slimserver was not detecting the music on the drive, and I > finally figured out that it's because it doesn't have the proper > permissions to access it. How can I set permissions so that it can? > (I don't see slimserver as a user or group.) > > I posted about this on an Ubuntu forum, and got two replies stating > that the permission I need cannot be set through linux on a vfat > formatted device, which this is. Is this true? I don't understand > why. >
FAT/FAT32 filesystems cannot hold permission and ownership information on a file-by-file level. But you can have the OS treat all the files as having the same ownership and permissions. Typically you'd use /etc/fstab to set up the mount point, and use the uid/gid mount options to control who "owns" the data, and umask to set permissions. You might set uid to the UID of the user that normally rips the music, and use a umask of 0022 or 0002 so the slimserver user can read the files. Search these forums for fstab and umask for more suggestions. And consider adding a page to wiki.slimdevices.com since there doesn't seem to be one on this topic yet. ;-) -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35188 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
