USB permissions

chris_Wood

In my Macs shared folders I am able to see the MPD USB folder on the raspberry Pi but I am unable to open the folder containing the music files because I 'don't have permission to view files'

Is it possible to allow full access to the USB so I can drag & drop music files to/from my Mac? I know how to log into the system with ssh but after that I'm lost

Many thanks

Chris

franz159

I'm also interested in this....
I was able to access the USB drive attached to the PI using ftp (user root), but write permission is only for user mpd.
Is they any way to gain "write" access to the USB mounted disk?

Thanks

franz159

My "workaround" solution has been to manually un-mount and re-mount the drive as in:

umount /dev/sda2
rm  /mnt/MPD/USB/Samsung2T/.udevil-mount-point 
mount /dev/sda2  /mnt/MPD/USB/Samsung2T

In this way the drive is mounted with "rw" (read/write) option.

Thanks everybody for a "cleaner" solution

cmh714

well at the very least you can add that to rc.local so it happens automatically on reboot

Orion

franz159 wrote Thanks everybody for a "cleaner" solution

I suggest this approach:

edit the system file /etc/udevil/udevil.conf

go to line 219:

default_options_vfat      = ro, iocharset=utf8, noatime, uid=$UID, gid=$GID
default_options_exfat     = ro, nonempty, uid=$UID, gid=$GID
default_options_hfsplus   = ro, uid=$UID, gid=$GID

change to:

default_options_vfat      = rw, iocharset=utf8, noatime, uid=$UID, gid=$GID
default_options_exfat     = rw, nonempty, uid=$UID, gid=$GID
default_options_hfsplus   = rw, uid=$UID, gid=$GID

save file and restart udevil daemon.

systemctl restart udevil

Bye.
Simone.

cmh714

an even nicer solution...ty

Orion

cmh714 wrotean even nicer solution...ty

Np.

we are here to help you.

Bye.
Simone.

Bjarne

Hi

Can i open and edit the file with putty?

/Bjarne

cmh714

Bjarne wroteHi

Can i open and edit the file with putty?

/Bjarne

yes, you can use nano or vi to edit it.

Bjarne

like this:
nano /etc/udevil/udevil.conf ?

cmh714

Correct. Scroll down to the file type you have and change the "ro" to "rw". So for ntfs:
change this line:
default_options_ntfs = ro, nosuid, noexec, nodev, noatime, fmask=0133, uid=$UID, gid=$GID, utf8
to this:
default_options_ntfs = rw, nosuid, noexec, nodev, noatime, fmask=0133, uid=$UID, gid=$GID, utf8

Bjarne

Thanks

Bjarne

Hmmm...

Still have problems adding or deleting files via Windows File Explorer
I have done as guided.
I log on with putty.
Go to windows explorer
If I browse my HHD and try to delete a file, it seems to be deleted, but after a while i show up again.
If I try to make a new folder, it says it need permission.

I want to use explorer because it's so easy to drag and drop files

/Bjarne

Bjarne

aha - found out that my HDD is ntfs formated

Thought it was fat32.

It's working now

Thanks

/Bjarne

charleskelly

Orion wrote

franz159 wrote Thanks everybody for a "cleaner" solution

I suggest this approach:

edit the system file /etc/udevil/udevil.conf

go to line 219:

default_options_vfat      = ro, iocharset=utf8, noatime, uid=$UID, gid=$GID
default_options_exfat     = ro, nonempty, uid=$UID, gid=$GID
default_options_hfsplus   = ro, uid=$UID, gid=$GID

change to:

default_options_vfat      = rw, iocharset=utf8, noatime, uid=$UID, gid=$GID
default_options_exfat     = rw, nonempty, uid=$UID, gid=$GID
default_options_hfsplus   = rw, uid=$UID, gid=$GID

save file and restart udevil daemon.

systemctl restart udevil

Bye.
Simone.

Hi, i too have this issue and i tried what you said above by editing the file but my usb is still mounted in read only. Note i am trying to access my usb key from the windows file explorer so do i have to change any other lines? thanks

hondagx35

Hi charleskelly,

please post the output from:

cat /proc/mounts | grep usb

It seems that you are using a different filesystem on your usb stick.