cannot delete files. need permission from TOWER/root to make changes

[grither]

hello helpful community!  i'm trying to delete a few files from my unraid server.  trying to do this from my windows pc by accessing various shares.

 

i am unable to delete anything as i keep getting error from the subject line

 

any advice?

 

[graywolf]

are you running 4.7 or 5.x?

 

disk or user shares?

 

are your shares read/write or read only?

 

 

[grither]

hi there!  i'm running 5.12b

 

using user shares

 

i'm pretty sure they are read and write... but actually not sure how to check!  i can usually delete files no prob, but i seem to be having trouble with files that programs write to the shares... for example i want to delete some files created by yamj but am unable to

 

 

[dgaschk]

Click on "New Permissions".

[Mailman74]

I am having the same problems also and New permissions has not worked for me. I wish you luck

[grither]

Click on "New Permissions".

 

Hi where is this command?

[Mailman74]

Click on "New Permissions".

 

Hi where is this command?

 

Unraid utils

[docfunbags]

Telnet into your unraid and delete as root?

[0bit]

I'm having this problem also. 

 

Everytime I run the command "yamj-rescan", I have to follow it with "chown -R admin:user /mnt/user/NAME_OF_SHARE/Jukebox" before I can delete or overwrite the movie poster with some other picture I like better.  Replace NAME_OF_SHARE with the name of your share folder.  Maybe that will help you.

[Carl314]

I had a similar problem - media I would transfer to unRAID was invisible to my Dune, and I constantly had to run Change Permissions.

 

I realized it was because I was mapping to the share as "root" on my PC, and therefore only root owned the files.  I changed the map to "nobody", with no password, and that seems to have worked.

 

Carl.

[grither]

I'm having this problem also. 

 

Everytime I run the command "yamj-rescan", I have to follow it with "chown -R admin:user /mnt/user/NAME_OF_SHARE/Jukebox" before I can delete or overwrite the movie poster with some other picture I like better.  Replace NAME_OF_SHARE with the name of your share folder.  Maybe that will help you.

 

thanks, i run a cron job daily so i added your command to it... will see if things get straightened out overnight!

 

[dgaschk]

If yamj runs as a user other than root this problem should go away.