This is likely a Linux question, I just am wondering why I can’t unplug an external, plug it into a new jellyfin setup (different machine), run chmod 777 for a local network and have it work.
It won’t add any of the drives/folders. Seems like an easy task, Windows or Mac OS could do it without thought, it’s a drive, with permissions. Why am I fighting it?
If you open a terminal,
cd <location>and runls -la, what do you get? Who’s the owner and what are the permissions of the subdirectories?Are there any errors in the Jellyfin interface? Have you checked the logs?
777 permissions are a bit overkill, I think 755 should be enough, since you don’t need to “execute” mkv file.
Are you running it in docker, and have you allowed the container access to those folders? Is the disk formatted in a format that allows linux permissions?
I go to the folder, copy the path, and run chmod from terminal, then copy the path to the jellyfin add library if your curious… it just won’t recognize anything
Are you doing chmod with the recursive option? You could list a few subfolders with “ls -la” and see who owns them and what permissions they have.
It’s also possible that your distribution mounts that drive with fixed permissions that override whatever you’re trying to set. Checking with “mount” and seeing what it spits out for the mount options for that device might give a clue.
To understand what you meant, does that mean I should try to mount them as mnt/w.e?
I see this under permissions
If you just rund “chmod 777” on that drive it will set these permissions only for that folder, not for subfolders or files (afaik) within this folder. By setting it as recursive, it will apply permissions to every single file and folder in any subfolder.
So if you can confirm you are only using the command "chmod 777” then that is your issue. You’d need to add sonething like -R or -r (look it up first, can make a difference and I don’t remember…) to the command.
If that were the issue would it not add the folder and then not see the context?
You still didn’t really answer how you are running chmod and there’s two users here already telling you it could solve the issue that you need to run it recursively.
From your answer I can assume you are not doing that and it is easy to just test it, so why don’t you give it a try and if it doesn’t work then there is a whole different issue than setting permissions.
