Permissions for a Sonarr server

[morxy49]

I have a Sonarr server set up. It's running on a dedicated virtual machine with Ubuntu 16,04. The user in Ubuntu is "mediamgmt".
I have Sonarr set up and running good, but now when i want it to access my shares on my NAS, i get an error message "Folder is not writable by user mediamgmt".

The permissions for my mounted folders is as following:

Code:

mediamgmt@mediamgmt:/media/nas_shares$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxr-x+ 7 1001 root 0 May 22 23:32 Media
drwxrwxr-x+ 8 1001 root 0 May 20 20:49 MediaVaggan
drwxrwxr-x+ 6 root root 0 Jun  4 18:23 Torrent

So there is a conflict here, i guess. But i'm not good at all with permissions, so i need some help from you guys to solve this. I want Sonarr to get full access to all the three mounted shares, Media, MediaVaggan, and Torrent. Do i have to change something on my FreeNAS, or is it on my Ubuntu server the changes are needed?

 

[morxy49]

bump anyone? :/ i really can't figure out how this should be...

 

[dlavigne]

What type of share are you using and what are the permissions on the dataset being shared?

 

[morxy49]

What type of share are you using and what are the permissions on the dataset being shared?

Thanks for answering! :D Really appreciate the help since i don't know what i'm doing here.

All shares are Windows shares (SMB).

Dataset Media:
Owner (user): Simon (UID 1001)
Owner (group): wheel (GID 0)
Mode: 775
Permission Type: Unix

Dataset MediaVaggan:
Owner (user): Simon (UID 1001)
Owner (group): wheel (GID 0)
Mode: 775
Permission Type: Unix

Dataset Torrent:
Owner (user): root (UID 0)
Owner (group): wheel (GID 0)
Mode: 775
Permission Type: Unix

 

[morxy49]

What type of share are you using and what are the permissions on the dataset being shared?

Don't wanna be annoying, but if you know how to help i would really appreciate it. I still haven't figured it out :/ Thanks.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

The user in Ubuntu is "mediamgmt".

Then that user needs to be the owner of, or a member of the group that owns the shared datasets.

Dataset Media:
Owner (user): Simon (UID 1001)
Owner (group): wheel (GID 0)

In this case, mediamgmt would need to be a member of wheel (GID 0), or to be the owner of the dataset, or have the same numeric ID as Simon.

 

[morxy49]

Then that user needs to be the owner of, or a member of the group that owns the shared datasets.

In this case, mediamgmt would need to be a member of wheel (GID 0), or to be the owner of the dataset, or have the same numeric ID as Simon.

Thanks for the reply!
I have now created a user in FreeNAS with the name "mediamgmt", UID 1002, and which is a member of the group "wheel".
I restarted Sonarr and tried again, but i still get the same error message: "Folder is not writable by user mediamgmt"
Did i miss something?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

And how does Sonarr connect to the share?

 

[morxy49]

And how does Sonarr connect to the share?

Hey, sorry for the long delay. I've been on vacation for three weeks and kind of put this on a pause :)
The Virtual Machine (Ubuntu) which is running Sonarr has the shares mounted with fstab.
I am using the username "Simon" to log in to the mounted shares. Should i change this?

 

[morxy49]

And how does Sonarr connect to the share?

Hey again. I tried to use the "mediamgmt" credentials instead when mounting the shares. I then restarted everything. Mounting still works fine even with the new credentials, so that's good. In Sonarr, however, it is still the same issue - "Folder is not writable by user mediamgmt". :(

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

What happens if you try to manually write to the folder as that user ( echo blah > blah.txt)?

 

[morxy49]

What happens if you try to manually write to the folder as that user ( echo blah > blah.txt)?

I can't do that either :(

Code:

mediamgmt@mediamgmt:~$ echo blah > /media/nas_shares/Media/blah.txt
-bash: /media/nas_shares/Media/blah.txt: Permission denied

EDIT: I also tried mounting the share in my home directory instead, but get the same message then as well.

Code:

mediamgmt@mediamgmt:~$ echo blah > /home/mediamgmt/nas_shares/Media/blah.txt
-bash: /home/mediamgmt/nas_shares/Media/blah.txt: Permission denied

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

If you can't write to the folder from the shell as the Sonarr user, then clearly either the ownership or the permissions are wrong. Fixing that is step one. Beyond that, I don't know how else to help. I think I have a pretty good handle on this in *nix, but you're adding Windows sharing to the mix, which I'm pretty weak on.