Moving over my Windows Mystic to Linux Debian, I feel like such a moron over this.. I use a shared folder on my nas for my file libraries, I have mounted the folder in /media/ I can access the folder with no issues, I edit the file library to access that folder for the files, when I try to download, it aborts like it can't find the files.. Anyone else doing something like this that can share some tidbits? I won't lie this is the first time I am pushing the envelope with Debian, I can do pretty much anything with it, but moving Mystic over is proving to be not so simple..

If you have any ideas, I am all ears..

AL

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Re: File Libs...
By: Bucko to All on Sat Sep 17 2022 12:11:32

Moving over my Windows Mystic to Linux Debian, I feel like such a moron over this.. I use a shared folder on my nas for my
file libraries, I have mounted the folder in /media/ I can access the folder with no issues, I edit the file library to
access that folder for the files, when I try to download, it aborts like it can't find the files.. Anyone else doing
something like this that can share some tidbits? I won't lie this is the first time I am pushing the envelope with Debian, I
can do pretty much anything with it, but moving Mystic over is proving to be not so simple..

can you write to the directory as the sbbs user?

sounds like a permissions issue. how are you mounting it? are you using SMB or NFS?

I run mine with all the file base and message base on my nas and i'm using an NFS share

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On 17 Sep 2022, Charles Blackburn said the following...

can you write to the directory as the sbbs user?

sounds like a permissions issue. how are you mounting it? are you using SMB or NFS?

I run mine with all the file base and message base on my nas and i'm
using an NFS share

Definitely permissions, I can't write to the directory, I can open up a new directory on the mystic drive and I can upload and download. So Ijust have to figure out getting the permissions set properly..

I am mounting via fstab on bootup, I an access the drives from within Debian with no issues, I can copy and delete etc. Just not via Mystic yet.. I have set the share so I have full access via my user on that, I am wondering if I should add a user called mystic and give that user permissions.. As you can see I am not fully proficient with linux, I get around in it.. Thanks for the help...
AL

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On 17 Sep 2022, Charles Blackburn said the following...

can you write to the directory as the sbbs user?

sounds like a permissions issue. how are you mounting it? are you using SMB or NFS?

Got it!! It was all permissions, I figured out the permissions and now it is good to go.. Jeez...

Thanks again for the help...

Al

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Re: Re: File Libs...
By: Bucko to Charles Blackburn on Sat Sep 17 2022 19:19:17

I am mounting via fstab on bootup, I an access the drives from within Debian with no issues, I can copy and delete etc. Just
not via Mystic yet.. I have set the share so I have full access via my user on that, I am wondering if I should add a user
called mystic and give that user permissions.. As you can see I am not fully proficient with linux, I get around in it..

ok so by the sounds of it you're mounting an SMB share from the nas. you need to make sure you're fstab options include rw,user
also there's options to set it so that it mounts it as a specific user as well...

what OS is sharing the directory? is it a samba share or a windows share?

also make sure you're mounting it as CIFS not SMB

for example, my one VM that mounts a windows share is like this

mount -t cifs -o credentials=/root/.creds,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0644 //192.168.0.XX/grandchild /mnt

for more information read here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Mounting_samba_shares_from_a_unix_client

anything else, reach out i'll help where i can

regards
Charles Blackburn
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On 17 Sep 2022, Charles Blackburn said the following...

ok so by the sounds of it you're mounting an SMB share from the nas. you need to make sure you're fstab options include rw,user
also there's options to set it so that it mounts it as a specific user as well...

what OS is sharing the directory? is it a samba share or a windows share?

also make sure you're mounting it as CIFS not SMB

for example, my one VM that mounts a windows share is like this

mount -t cifs -o
credentials=/root/.creds,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0644 //192.168.0.XX/grandchild /mnt

Thanks for the help Charles, what I ended up doing is using the noperm switch, I know it is not the right way to go, because it opens it up to anyone, but my BBS's and this particular NAS (Xpenology setup) are on their own seperate VLAN which can't access the computers on my regular network. It is set up sort of like a IoT network.. Thanks again for the help.

Al

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Definitely permissions, I can't write to the directory, I can open up a new directory on the mystic drive and I can upload and download. So
Ijust have to figure out getting the permissions set properly..

Sometimes having user mounts on something like NFS or NAS or some other media is weird, but I think you're on the right track. I was down this road once before and it proved to be enough of a pain in the ass I just grew my on-machine storage instead of dealing with it :P

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On 18 Sep 2022, esc said the following...

Sometimes having user mounts on something like NFS or NAS or some other media is weird, but I think you're on the right track. I was down this road once before and it proved to be enough of a pain in the ass I just grew my on-machine storage instead of dealing with it :P

Thanks bud, appreciate it. This is something that I have been wanting to do for quite a while.. Just finally started tackling it now, it's pretty easy just time consuming changing over the directory calls from windows to linux. I am glad though that my base is set now, so all I have to do is take about 2 hours copy the main mystic directory from my windows VM to the new Linux set up and go in and edit all of the directory calls in my file bases. Once I have my board running well, I will move my Mystic InterBBS file server over then the Matrix menu for ALL of my BBS' over also.. Once I got past the permissions issues, and the little things, it should all be cake..

Thanks again..
AL

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