Edit: I found the solution! All I had to do was add the uid with my username, then I also had to add “forceuid” for it to actually go through. My fstab entry now looks like:
//192.168.1.21/Media-Library /mnt/Home-NAS/Media-Library cifs user=Jellyfin,password=password,uid=my_uid,forceuid,iocharset=utf8 0 0
Thank you @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml for posting the solution from Stack Exchange!
Hello! I have an Ubuntu server with a NAS mounted using cifs-utils, and I’ve created an entry in fstab for the share to be mounted at boot.
My fstab entry looks like this:
//192.168.1.21/Media-Library /mnt/Home-NAS/Media-Library cifs user=Jellyfin,password=password,iocharset=utf8 0 0
(The password is not actually “password” of course)
However, while I’m able to access the share perfectly fine, and even have a Jellyfin server reading from it, I cannot write files to the share without using sudo. I have some applications that manage metadata for music, and they’re not able to change or add files in any way.
I am however able to access the share from my Fedora machine just fine with the same credentials, since I use KDE, I just added them to the default “Windows Share Credentials” setting. I don’t have the issue where I have to use sudo to modify files, so I know it’s just an issue with the share mounted to the server and not permission issues on the NAS itself.
What am I doing wrong?
Try adding to the fstab options uid=#### with the #### replaced with the user id you are using. If you are using more users other options may be needed.
Edit: also check ‘man mount.cifs’ for other options.
Could it be set with a gid and with write permissions for the group, therefore giving users in that group write access?
Yes, that should work as well.
Thanks!
That unfortunately didn’t work, but I really do appreciate your response.
I just had to add an entry for my uid and then “forceuid”, and it worked!