A little bit more info on SMB - Sharing and Permissions problems I have recently encountered.
For some reason, I have been having further issues with various video files refusing to play over a local network when shared from an OSX server when using SMB only. NFS is fine. I generally run them through a program called MP4Tools and the resulting files are converted to an Apple .m4v container. These files then play properly on my RPi2 and Crystalbutnu ATV1.
Looking in OSX System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing I have:
- Windows Sharing On > Share files and folders using SMB
- Shared Folders - Downloads
Users:
WRXTASY - Read & Write
Staff - Read Only
Everyone - Read Only
Next looking at the "Downloads folder" with OSX - Get Info, I see:
Shared Folder - Ticked
Sharing & Permissions:
system - Read & Write
WRXTASY (Me) - Read & Write
wheel - Read & Write
everyone - Read only
One would think at this point all Permissions look correct for file sharing - yes ?
Well NO, for some reason individual video files I have downloaded with Google Chrome on OSX have ended up with the following Permissions in the Download directory:
WRXTASY (Me) - Read & Write
wheel - Read Only
everyone - No Access
I changed everyone - to Read only, and Bam - Issue solved.
The issue still remains however, every file downloaded has a Permissions issue when saved by Google Chrome in the Downloads directory. I have to do a Get Info , Apply to Enclosed items permissions fix every now and again.
The easy fix is just to export these files to an shared external drive and then you can just select "Ignore ownership on this volume"
This may possibly be a OSX Sandboxing issue with Chrome downloads or a parent directory - Recursive permissions issue.
The hunt continues....