coendeurloo Wrote:..nd make it unpack to the external drive (which is the fastest method I think).
Ahh, there you go - it was all down to a hostname problem (something to do with a setup between your NAS device and your router). Using your NAS drive's IP address is no issue at all, so long as you don't change it. Well done for figuring our something I should have thought of - but hey, it's taught you a lot about Linux and learning by doing is always best imho - that's how I learnt about Linux.
As far as your problem creating the folder in your NAS drive mounted on your device....hmm, have you tried creating it in a pre-existing folder on the NAS drive? You are right, it is down to permission errors and is most likely due to the options set out in your /etc/fstab - however, I only know about the options I chose, and not others...
A hacky way to try is by unmounting the drive (we unmount it first so we don't end up changing the ownership of all the folders on the NAS):
sudo umount /home/xbmc/nas
Then change the ownership of the nas folder:
sudo chown xbmc:xbmc /home/xbmc/nas
Then remount the drive:
sudo mount -a
You can also try changing permission on the drive using:
sudo chmod a+rw /home/xbmc/nas
(this means a=all users , +=add, rw=read write permission)
Once again, make sure you do this AFTER you have unmounted the NAS drive so you don't mess permissions on the NAS drive. If these don't work then I am afraid I am outta options, the solution is probobly changing the options in the way the drive is mounted in /etc/fstab and I don't know the details....
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