Permissions problem

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    Not sure if this is the correct forum to post in. Newbie to libreelec.


    I have Libreelec installed on RPi3 (192.168.0.10)with a external hard disk. On a different PI I have Sonarr installed and have mounted hard disk on Libreelec device with


    Sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.10/mydisk/tvshows /media/tvshows


    I don’t seem to have ‘normal’ write permission to /media/tvshows, I can write with sudo. What do I need to change so that Sonarr has write access?

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    Quote from chewiesw

    I don’t seem to have ‘normal’ write permission to /media/tvshows, I can write with sudo.

    LibreELEC itself has no 'sudo', as it has only 1 user: root.

    Double-check your HDD whether it is free from any disk errors. Linux normally doesn't even auto-mount disks in such case for the disk's self-preservation. Also dismount/eject the HDD properly after checking/fixing errors in Windows (assuming the disk is NTFS-formatted).

    Quote from Klojum

    LibreELEC itself has no 'sudo', as it has only 1 user: root.

    Double-check your HDD whether it is free from any disk errors. Linux normally doesn't even auto-mount disks in such case for the disk's self-preservation. Also dismount/eject the HDD properly after checking/fixing errors in Windows (assuming the disk is NTFS-formatted).

    The HDD is fine. I have to use sudo on the PI when I try write to LibreElec device

    let me try to clarify - I have librelec on one Pi with a hdd attached

    On a different pi I have raspbain and sonarr running (username = pi). Once sonarr has finished downloading it tries to move the show to the librelec Pi. But gets an access denied message.

    I have mounted the HDD to the 'sonarr' Pi via mount -t cifs //192.168.0.10/mydisk/tvshows /media/tvshows -o username=root,password=libreelec,domain=workgroup

    ls -al on the sonarr pi is

    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 20 17:22 'Yellowstone (2018)

    I can move manually from the sonarr pi to the libreelec pi if I use sudo (on the sonarr pi)

    Quote from mglae

    Read "FILE AND DIRECTORY OWNERSHIP AND PERMISSIONS" in man mount.cifs

    good advice - RTFM ! At least your post count went up.

    For those you have similar issues you might need to use the uid and gid options

    mount -t cifs //192.168.0.10/mydisk/tvshows /media/tvshows -o uid=pi, gid=pi

    uid and gid are the user/group that require write access.

    Do you really expect that I'm able to theoretically choose the the correct combination of uid, gid, forceuid and forcegid parameters needed in your configuration?

    Hello to you all. I have also that kind of problem. I have installed LibreELEC on a PC and mounted the drives via SATA cables. Everything works great except that i cannot delete or make any changes to the files that i have there. I have tried from both my PC Win10 and ftp FileZilla with the same result. Permisssion denied or "Error 0x80070091- The Directory Is Not Empty". Please help me....