My problem miraculously fixed itself when I ran the script - it said that LMS was already running and then it was. I think the problem was caused by Ubuntu Desktop being too much for my old Core 2 duo to handle, and I was running a lot of other services. Suffice to say, I had another problem with permissions - LMS couldn't access my second drive containing my media - and in trying to fix them I managed to completely screw up the server by locking myself out! (Not for the first time! Linux is unforgiving haha!)
I have now reinstalled the machine with Ubuntu Server to be a more lean headless solution. I am using a combination of SSH (terminal) and Gnome Core + VNC Server (GUI) to access it from my laptop over LAN. I am now installing LMS on the machine. Latterly I plan to setup MusicIP headless and Plex Media Server byt I want to get LMS working properly first. I am having a problem that I previously mentioned in another thread. I am unable to access my second disk where my media is stored from within the LMS settings. They do not show up. This is obviously an ownership issue. The disk is accessible from both VNC and SSH, but I am obviously accessing it through my account in this case. LMS is presumably using its own account which does not have permission to access the disk. The music folder is currently located at: /media/omstedall/mediadrive/music 'omstedall is the name of my account. 'mediadrive' is the name of the second disk. I have tried to chown the Music folder to the LMS account using: sudo chown -R squeezeboxserver /media/omstedall/mediadisk/Music This didn't work - presumably because the parent folder is still owned by my account. I am pretty new to permissions in Linux, and am wary of using trial and error since messing around with chown is what caused my to hose my machine yesterday! Does anyone know how how to get this working? Is there a way to add LMS as a second user, without affecting the permissions of my personal account? Here is the feedback from LS -l for the various folders in case it proves useful: omstedall@ubuntu-server:/media$ ls -l total 8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 1 12:18 floppy -> floppy0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 1 12:18 floppy0 drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 4096 Nov 1 15:08 omstedall omstedall@ubuntu-server:/media/omstedall$ ls -l total 4 drwxrwxrwx 6 116 cdrom 4096 Sep 16 23:18 mediadisk omstedall@ubuntu-server:/media/omstedall$ omstedall@ubuntu-server:/media/omstedall/mediadisk$ ls -l total 56 drwxrwxrwx 2 116 root 16384 Sep 2 18:27 lost+found drwxrwxr-x 2 116 omstedall 4096 Oct 30 12:58 Movies drwxrwxrwx 1012 squeezeboxserver omstedall 36864 Sep 26 04:55 Music ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saltedlolly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96892 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
