I changed the User and Group for my Plex Media Server. Now my DVR is giving me “No write access to destination” errors. If I revert to the default Plex user it works fine. Drive has read/write access for group, but I am not sure what I need to do for my DVR to write properly under the chosen user.
Ubuntu 20.04.1
Server Version#: 1.21.2.3918
Player Version#:
Check the entire tree (path). Most common problem when changing username is overlooking one directory in the path from top -> destination.
User needs rw
Checked through and user/group has rw acess all the way through to destination. Plex is still erroring no write access to desination
I tried recording on a different drive/folder and that one works… same permissions from top to destination as the original attempts. First folder has a full TB of available space more than second attempt … So strange. :-/
What do the DEBUG logs show?
Permission issues should be written in the logs with the nice clear “Permission Denied” and show the path.
Grabber: Saving recording to “ path /.grab/ long hexcode
Grabber: No write permission
and what are the permissions on that <Path>/.grab ?
Does the Plex user have permission to R/W in the .grab ?
The long code is the recording session ID before it gets renamed to its final name after being successfully recorded.
Oh that fixed it!!! Thank you for hand holding me on that. I couldn’t see the .grab folder, but typing it in and changing its properties fixed everything!! Ah man, it was staring me in the face.
ls -la <path> is your friend and savior in many ways LOL
