May 12, 201610 yr I was trying to copy some data from server to another and got access denied on certain TV show directories. When I do a ls -la I see the following: Not sure how this happened. I'm not very good at linux perms so how can I change the blue folders with 'root root' back to 'nobody users'?
May 12, 201610 yr Tools -> New Permissions will do it. It's quicker from the command line though: cd /mnt/user/share-name chown nobody:users * chmod 777 * Replace share-name with your actual share name. This will make those folders (such as Oz) have the same ownership and permissions as the others (such as Outlander).
May 12, 201610 yr Tools -> New Permissions will do it. Shotgun GUI approach. newperms (full path to folder you want to adjust e.g. /mnt/disk1/tvshows) command line surgical approach. Either works, CLI may be faster if you only need to work on a small subset of folders.
May 12, 201610 yr I agree, but many people are much happier with the GUI solution. Either way the resulting permissions, though they will undoubtedly work, are way too generous for my liking.
May 12, 201610 yr The really good question is why did the permissions get mixed up in the first place. Suggestion look at the programs that you might have downloading and moving things around...
May 12, 201610 yr Author The really good question is why did the permissions get mixed up in the first place. Suggestion look at the programs that you might have downloading and moving things around... Yea I think I found the culprit. I spun up a test ubuntu server for testing pooled nfs mounts (MergeRFS). I was messing with that this morning so that's probably what did it.
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