Hi!
I'm using R5F27.
I just tried to send some games in /myth/games using the default samba share. It would not allow me write access.

After further investigation, I observed that the owner and group of the /myth/games folder is not mythtv, hence causing issue with permissions (even on the box, logged as mythtv, I only had read/execute access).

Here is a ls -la output of the /myth folder (no modification since installation):


The simple solution to this issue (I'm somewhat of a linux newbie and did not want/know how to mess with groups) is to change the owner of the games folder (and its children) back to mythtv.

This is done (as root) with
For me, this fixed the issue and I can now access freely the /myth/games/* folders.

Shouldn't those folders have the same level of access as the other /myth folders (like /myth/video and /myth/music) by default? Could it be a simple mistake in a script somewhere? Could it be that for some reason, on my machine the mkmythdir script (or some other setup script) did not run correctly? Or could it be that I messed up something (either when enabling smb shares or whatever else) on my own?

Note that I did do a apt-get upgrade early on in my setup process. That upgraded a sh*tload of packages, including Xorg... Might have something to do with it?

Thanks for any info!

Edit: some info about my box:
KnoppMyth R5F27
P3 Coppermine 866 MHz
512 MB of PC100 SDRam
Geforce 4 MX 440
Ensoniq cheap PCI Sound Card
No TV tuners

I don't know if it's by design or an omission, but I informed the other testers about it. It isn't because you did an apt-get update. If it's not root for a specific reason, it'll probably be corrected for the next release.

Thanks for reporting this!

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