Does sickbeard need to run as nobody?

[tucansam]

Just moved sickbeard from a Windows system (where is was running as user "bob") to a linux machine, where is is also running as user "bob"

 

Can't add shows... Permissions on /mnt/tv_shows don't allow sickbeard to create directories.  If I log into the sb machine as "bob" and 'mkdir /mnt/tv_shows/foo" I get a permissions failure.

 

Do I need to run sb as 'nobody'?  Not sure how to do that either (sb runs on startup)

 

Thanks,

[mrow]

Either the user "bob" needs to be able to access the root directory or you need to mount your shares in the user "bob"'s home directory. i.e. /home/bob/mnt/tv_shows

 

Mounting the shares in just /mnt/tv_shows would be mounting in the root directory and therefor the "bob" account would need permissions for that.

[tucansam]

OK... I know that "bob" had smb permissions since it worked under Windows.

 

Can I mount the share via samba (currently using nfs) and get the same result?  Mounting the directory in bob's home dir would mean changing a lot of stuff around on the server.

 

I know most folks run sb on their unraid server, but I prefer a sterile unraid environment. 

 

Is anyone else running sb on a separate linux machine?

[mrow]

OK... I know that "bob" had smb permissions since it worked under Windows.

 

Can I mount the share via samba (currently using nfs) and get the same result?  Mounting the directory in bob's home dir would mean changing a lot of stuff around on the server.

 

I know most folks run sb on their unraid server, but I prefer a sterile unraid environment. 

 

Is anyone else running sb on a separate linux machine?

 

 

I'm not sure what you mean bob had permissions in Windows. The user in Linux is not related to a Windows login account in any way.

 

Mounting with samba would not make a difference because of, like I said, where you have the directories mounting. It doesn't have anything to do with the protocol. It's the location your mounting these shares.

 

Like I said, your only options are to grant bob access to the root directory or mount it in bob's home directory and make whatever changes are required.

 

I run SickBeard in an Ubuntu VM, not in unraid.

[tucansam]

I guess I'm confused.  How did sb, when run under Windows, have permission to write to /mnt/user/tv_shows on unraid? 

 

On unraid, my permissions look like this:

 

drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users  304 2014-04-02 02:18 tv_shows/

 

The nfs mount on the machine running sb looks like this:

 

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr  2 02:18 tv_shows

 

 

So I am confused where I need to enable access.  Thanks for the help!

[tucansam]

I should add that I am running plex on this system as well as sb, and here is the only way I could get the mounts to work (from /etc/fstab):

 

 

//192.168.0.4/movies /mnt/movies cifs username=plex,password=

//192.168.0.4/tv_shows /mnt/tv_shows cifs username=plex,password=