No write access to destination

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been trying to setup DVR for around 6 hours now, and I keep hitting the same roadblock. Whenever I set something to record I get the message No write access to destination and a little amber caution symbol over the show.

My setup is a ESXI VM running Plex with a mounted CIFS share from a different ESXI VM. I have tried all sorts of different permissions up to and including 777 on both the Plex VM and the Samba Host.

Please help, I’m at my wits end.

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While I don’t know what the [Richard] Cavett Show is, this is what I get when I try to record it.

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If you switch to the user PMS is running as, are you able to write to the folder?

Can you paste your mount line (either manual or from /etc/fstab)? I am running PMS on Ubuntu 16.04 and mount CIFS on my unRAID box.

Plex Server /etc/fstab:
//192.168.30.100/recordedtv /mnt/Tower/RecordedTV cifs rw,vers=2.1,username=plex,password=password,uid=111,gid=118 0 0

Mount Point:

brian@PlexTV
drwxr-xr-x 2 plex plex 0 Jun 26 17:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 23 19:50 …
drwxr-xr-x 2 plex plex 0 Jun 24 00:06 .grab

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\UbuntuFile\Media /mnt/Media cifs user=username,defaults 0 0
I can write to the mount as myself. Do you mean switching to the account that PMS creates, plex?

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@LTHorn said:

I can write to the mount as myself. Do you mean switching to the account that PMS creates, plex?

Yes. I would expect it to have the same issue (not writeable) as PMS is reporting in the GUI. Just looking to confirm. Knowing that your normal user account is able to write to the mount is a good data point.

What if you specify your plex account UID and GID in your mount statement? On my system, UID 111 is the plex user and 118 is the plex group so I added “uid=111,gid=118”.

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@BrianAz said:>

Yes. I would expect it to have the same issue (not writeable) as PMS is reporting in the GUI. Just looking to confirm. Knowing that your normal user account is able to write to the mount is a good data point.

What if you specify your plex account UID and GID in your mount statement? On my system, UID 111 is the plex user and 118 is the plex group so I added “uid=111,gid=118”.

Oh my god, that was exactly what I was missing! I just ran two successful test records. Thank you so much!

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Glad you got it working. Enjoy!