Hi all,

 

I have Unraid up and running for a couple of months now and I absolutely love it. What small problems I've had I've been able to fix by reading this board. This is great support! But I've got a problem that I have'nt been able to fix. I moved alot of movies from NTFS drives by putting them in the server and using the method in Wiki. The problem I have is that I can't change anything on the files, I can't rename them and I can't delete them. I get a- you need permission to preform this action- screen when I try! Help please!

 

Bax

Please provide more info ...

 

How are you trying to change them?  Via unix?  Via windows?  Via Mac?  Via something else?  Of course, that may not really matter.

 

Sounds like the permissions got messed up.  You may be able to change this via a chmod command through telnet.  I'll let others toss that one out there since I forget exactly what to set it to.  Try searching this board for "chmod".

 

 

Cheers,

Bill

I am trying to rename a movie and I am also trying to delete a movie. I am doing this by going to tower on the network using Windows Vista. I can change files that I have written since the original copy process. I will search for chmod.

 

Thanks

Bax

The Linux cp command under Samba sets the permissions wrong for Windows, makes them appear Hidden and System.  Check this thread:  http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=685.  You can either use the chmod command from the console, or use a good Windows file manager and select a batch of the affected files and uncheck the Hidden and System flags.

 

OK, do I use this: chmod  -R  0700  /var/tmp/*

And if so how do I do it?

 

Thanks for the help,

Bax

The '/var/tmp/*' is the filespec that the original poster of that thread was interested in.  You would need to change it to the appropriate filespec for your files, probably the same one(s) you used when you did your copying with cp.  For example ->  chmod  -R  0700  /mnt/disk1/Movies/*

 

I am not a Linux expert though, so you might wait until tomorrow, to give others a chance to correct me if wrong.