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Readynas permissions Kodi
Have music library stored in an nfs share on Readynas called "Music" (suprisingly).
Use Kodi on a variety of windows/ raspberry pi machines as a frontend player. I have used the export function in Kodi to export album information as single files to each music folder, which works great (and is much quicker when rebuilding the kodi music library), however once done so the .nfo files and .jpg created can only be read from within Kodi, accessing from a windows machine gives a file permission error.
Using the reset permsissions feature rom the Readynas frontend sorts everything out. Under the File Access settings I have ticked "Specify permission when new file/folder is created" and ticket read/write to the group "everyone" which in my mind shoudl be correct?
Any ideas what I can do?
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Hi Getyo, let me ask what happens in case you try to access those .nfo and .jpg files from a raspberry pi?
Also I'm a bit puzzled about your introductory sentence. You say "Have music library stored in an NFS share ". Do all clients, which want to access that share, need to talk nfs?
Can you see the file owner/group and the permissions from the Windows PC (right-clicking on the file)?
In general, the Windows system needs to have both network permissions and file access permissions. So check both of those tabs on the RN102.
I don't use Kodi - does the NFS mount use a username/password? If it has that capability, it would be good to use it (using a user account that is configured on the NAS). You can use those credentials on all machines, including the Windows PCs.
Also, are you using SMB on the windows systems, or are you using the Windows NFS client there?
- Thanks.
I don’t have to access the share via NFS, just always have. To alleviate the problem I have rebuilt the library using SMB instead which alleviated the problem.
I did not mount the share on the PI, just built the library using the nfs share. Pi could access the files fine just not the windows pcs, the pcs could not even see the ownership rights.
Whilst “resolved” still don’t like letting things beat me!
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