[Solved] Cannot create new folders


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Hi Guys,

I get a message when creating folders "you do not have permission to write to this directory".

It's Ubuntu 16.04.2.  Resilio is 2.4.5 (903).

The service is configured for user: rslsync and group: media.  The locations of the files have for example group "foo" with read and write for that group.  User rslsync is a member of that group, but it still cannot create folders via the web interface.  When I execute commands in shell as rslsync, I can create folders and content within the same locations.

I have no idea why it's giving me this message.  Anyone?  Logs (debugging enabled) also doesn't appear to give any verbose output when clicking the 'New Folder' button.

Thanks, 

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Hi Helen,

rslsync is already a member of that group.  Like I mentioned if I execute shell as rslsync, it can create folders and permissions are fine.  The only way I've been able to get it to currently work is by having rslsync the owner.

Thanks,

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I'm experiencing a similar issue on Linux Mint 17.3 (based on ubuntu).

The webinterface states that it cannot find the folders set up in an earlier version of Resilio Sync.

When I tried to change the default location (which has been changed from the desired /home/myuser/sync to the new  /home/myuser/sync/share supposedly during an update), then the web interface tells me: "You do not have permission to write to this directory." However, the directory and all subdirectories are set up using my user and group rslsync. Also, my old folders have the status "Folder not found".

/home and /home/myuser have

drwx------ myuser:myuser

/home/myuser/sync has

drwxrwxr-x myuser:rslsync

Needless to say that rslsync and myuser have the group rslsync assigned.

Interestingly enough:

When I create a folder /testrsl (<- in the file system root) with

drwxrwxr-x myuser:rslync

then everything works fine. The webinterface accepts this folder.

Maybe the UI tries to open the folders step by step and fails, because it is not allowed to open /home & /home/myuser? This would explain, why it succeeds with /testrsl but fails with /home/myuser/sync

[edit: correct typo]

Edited by T_T
correct typo
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