On 28/10/2019 20:27, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> RobH wrote:
>
>> On the Pi 4  with xeoma, the directories or folders have been created
>> under /mnt , and I have a line in fstab to mount them. mount -a mounts
>> the said directories.
>>
>> //192.168.0.22/CCTV/xeoma /mnt/CCTV/xeoma cifs
>> credentials=/home/pi/.smbclient, uid=pi 0 0
>>
>> Now in xeoma, I am getting this error message:
>>
>>     Archive is not being recorded! Failed to create the directory for the
>> archive (/mnt/CCTV/xeoma)
>
> Let's pause right there for a moment.
>
> So far, you've (sorta) told us that
> a) you have a NAS at 192.168.0.22 that uses the CIFS (microsoft network)
>     file system
> b) you mount a subdirectory of this CIFS file system to a mountpoint on your
>     Raspberry Pi 4
> c) you run xeoma (which, apparently, is a client/server security camera
>     recording/viewing application) on your RPi4
> d) the server portion of xeoma attempts to create a directory under the CIFS
>     mount point
>
> Do I have it correct so far?

Remember that CIFS permissions as far as the NAS server is concerned are
granted by the server on the basis of whatever you logged in as.

Not by whoever you think you are locally.


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