HOW TO: Change file permissions A-300

[mantologist]

Hi,

I have a slight issue where I can't move some video files from the download directory into the folder I want them in, nor can I change file names. The error says to "make sure the destination folder is not read only."

When I FTP into the machine I am no longer able to move files around like I always have been. When I run "Get Info" on the folders it says "You can only read", but of course I can't change the permission from OSX because the NMT is a different file system.

I have just recently upgraded to OSX Lion, and have updated to the latest firmware on my A-300. Nothing else has changed and I've been having these permission problems since before both upgrades.

I can't think of what the problem might be, because I can move some downloaded videos but not others.

I searched throughout the Wiki and forum to find out how to change file permissions but couldn't find anything.

Thanks.

[halfelite]

you need to telnet into the pch,

And run chown -R nmt:nmt foldername

To give rights back to user nmt nmt

[lordy]

I think I remember this 'chown-R nmt:nmt /share' used to be in the boot sequence ? is it still there? Or do I remember wrongly ..

[mantologist]

(04-25-2012 07:15 PM)halfelite Wrote:  you need to telnet into the pch,

And run chown -R nmt:nmt foldername

To give rights back to user nmt nmt

Pardon my ignorance but your answer does not make a lot of sense to me.

I have telnet into the pch and I see "sh-3.00#"

Then I type "chown -R nmt:nmt Video" and it says "No such file or directory"

[halfelite]

when you first go into telnet you are in the root of the filesystem so you are in / you would need to type "cd /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/Sata_disk/ I think is the path but not sure. You might have to walk the path to check. So do something like.

Code:

cd opt
ls
cd sybhttpd
ls
cd localhost

cd changes to the directory and ls lists the contents in the directory you are in.

[mantologist]

(04-25-2012 07:36 PM)halfelite Wrote:  when you first go into telnet you are in the root of the filesystem so you are in / you would need to type "cd /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/Sata_disk/ I think is the path but not sure. You might have to walk the path to check. So do something like.

Code:

cd opt
ls
cd sybhttpd
ls
cd localhost

cd changes to the directory and ls lists the contents in the directory you are in.

Ok that all makes sense to me. (That is the correct path by the way, I just needed to make the "Sata_disk" all capitals for it to work).

Now that I am in the SATA_DISK directory, What does the command "chown -R nmt:nmt" actually mean?

[halfelite]

what you are are doing is chown = change owner, -R means recursive, ftp/samba run as user nmt and group nmt so you are making sure the folder and files are all owned by nmt,

[mantologist]

(04-25-2012 07:56 PM)halfelite Wrote:  what you are are doing is chown = change owner, -R means recursive, ftp/samba run as user nmt and group nmt so you are making sure the folder and files are all owned by nmt,

Awesome, so now that I'm in the SATA_DISK directory, and I have typed "chown -R nmt:nmt Video"...

How do we know that the change owner command has worked?

[halfelite]

if you get no error it worked. go to your pc and try to move a file with ftp or samba

[mantologist]

(04-25-2012 08:09 PM)halfelite Wrote:  if you get no error it worked. go to your pc and try to move a file with ftp or samba

OK so do I have to do this for every video file? Or does the -Recursive command change permissions for all subfolders and files?

I exited the telnet and rebooted the NMT and nothing seems to have changed.

Is there a command to find out what the permissions currently are?

[halfelite]

if you want to see what the perms are in use type ls -l


It should change for everything. Explain exactly what folders you are moving things to and from and how the files got there and there might be a better option. Usually this error only comes up if the drive was not formatted by the pch

[mantologist]

The drive was formatted by the PCH.

All I need to do is move videos that I have downloaded, using transmission on the NMT, from the Download folder to a Movie or TV show folder. Also re-name them to make it look neat.

Thanks for you help though. I appreciate it.

[halfelite]

Ok is this stock transmission or transmission added by CSI?

[mantologist]

Transmission added by CSI

[halfelite]

look here

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...ansmission

there has been issues when transmission is not running as the right user. I dont run transmission so maybe post in the transmission thread.