I want to clarify how I fixed this so others can benefit from it. The short answer: chown fixed it in the short term but was more of a work around solution. The real problem was that my drive was not system mounted via FStab (I didn't understand about this before). Doing this made the disk available to any services running on the machine, of which LMS was one.
Thanks everyone for their help. I am reposting the information I postsed in another thread. Here is a write up of the full problem and the solution. --------------------------- PROBLEM: 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 SOLUTION: It seems the problem was being caused by the second drive being auto-mounted by the desktop, rather than being mounted by the system. This meant that LMS couldn't access it. I fixed it by mounting the drive via FStab using the somewhat complicated instructions (at least for a beginner like me!) here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Au...ountPartitions Specifically, I followed the part about 'Systemwide Mounts'. I also found this link useful: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab Hope this helps anyone else with the same problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saltedlolly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96338 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
