So I just copied about 20 movies to my computer and when I went to copy them over to my server they won't copy.  I tried one at a time and still nothing, it looks as if it completes transferring but I doesn't copy over.  Any idea?  COuld this be a sign of the drive going bad?

So I just copied about 20 movies to my computer and when I went to copy them over to my server they won't copy.  I tried one at a time and still nothing, it looks as if it completes transferring but I doesn't copy over.  Any idea?  COuld this be a sign of the drive going bad?

 

My guess is that the files are copying but they aren't visible to you from the samba share because of permissions.  Describe all the computers involved to help.  One way to check if that is going on is to telnet into unRAID and cd to the place where they should be, do a ls to see if they are there.  I'm going to guess one is Win7.  There is a samba/Win7 issue where there has to be a user named "nobody" on the unRAID side to make things work better.

No windows, they are all Macs.  I will try the telnet thing.  Can you tell me what I need to type?  Server is called Tower and the movies are on disk1 in directory Movies

Im having no luck with telnet 

Im having no luck with telnet 

Unless you set a "hosts" file on your MAC, you'll need to connect to your server by IP address.

 

Joe L.

I think it might be a permission issue. I am testing it now.  I can connect to the server fine but when the movie is done copying over it doesn't show up on the server.  I went a changed the permissions and added "admin" with read and write, see if this works.  I changed the permissions on the file which is on my mac.

Nope, didn't work. Very strange some files copy other don't, they are all mkvs all copied today

Ok, I think it has to be something with unraid.  I can copy the movies to my other Mac with out a problem but not to the drives on my server, any idea?  I going to try and copy the movies that I copied over to my other Mac and see if that works.

So the movies copied over fine after I copied them from my Mac mini to my MacBook pro then to the server. I am now going to repair the permissions on the Mac mini and see if that could be the problem.  I'm using the Mac mini as my htpc running plex

Nope that didn't work 

Don't know if it's the same problem as you, but this is what I had.

 

I copied movies from my other NAS (Vortexbox) to the unRAID box

From my iMac I could see the movies on the unRAID box

On my media player (using XBMC) I couldn't see any movies.

 

Telnet into the unRAID server and using command 'chmod -R 666 /mnt/user/...' (of course use your own directory structure) solved it for me.

 

I'm not that knowledgeable in Linux, but the permissions remain a mystery to me. Copying files from my iMac to the unRAID box using finder, or fron NAS (running on Vortexbox build on Fedora 10) to unRAID using finder no issues with permissions. Using other tools such as rsync or ultracopier I get issues.

Don't know if it's the same problem as you, but this is what I had.

 

I copied movies from my other NAS (Vortexbox) to the unRAID box

From my iMac I could see the movies on the unRAID box

On my media player (using XBMC) I couldn't see any movies.

 

Telnet into the unRAID server and using command 'chmod -R 666 /mnt/user/...' (of course use your own directory structure) solved it for me.

 

I'm not that knowledgeable in Linux, but the permissions remain a mystery to me. Copying files from my iMac to the unRAID box using finder, or fron NAS (running on Vortexbox build on Fedora 10) to unRAID using finder no issues with permissions. Using other tools such as rsync or ultracopier I get issues.

Using a permission of 666 would turn OFF the ability to use directories in paths to files.  you would not be able to "cd" to it, nor use its contents, or even get a listing of what it contains.   If you set the permissions that way, expect to have the issues you are having.

 

Time to read up on the chmod command and how permission on linux are used in both directories and files.  (It affects them differently)

 

Here is one article: http://aplawrence.com/Basics/perms.html

and another

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1047531.html

and another

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/usersguide/linux_ugfilesp.html

and another talking about directories

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/790686/understanding-linux-directory-permissions-reasoning

and another

http://www.zzee.com/solutions/linux-permissions.shtml

 

Joe L.

thanks, will read into it.

 

But only after using the 666 command actually made the files visible in XBMC?

This is just very weird, I never had this problem before.  Everything worked fine from my MacBook pro but for some reason I'm having problems with my Mac mini.  I did finally get everything copied over but I had to copy everything to my MacBook first than to the server. 

I changed the save location in makemkv to save them right to unraid and it is working fine now, still don't know what the problem was but this fixed it for now.