Letting Owncloud Access A USB

[Thra3h]

Hello,

I'm trying to setup owncloud 8 on my RPi2 and when I enter my local IP this is where I get - normal.


I've mounted my USB to /media/owncloud and I can store files there, and then view them on my computer - so the USB is working.

I believe I have given owncloud the correct permissions to view and write to the USB drive:

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sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /media/owndrive

Then I configure the Storage And Database setting and set it to /media/owndrive, but when I click Finish Setup, it displays this:


Any help would be appreciated greatly! I've probably done something simple that's causing the problem, so...

Thanks,

Stephen

[Thra3h]

Just noticed something...

I mentioned /media/owncloud but in the code I wrote:

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sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /media/owndrive

Will look into it some more today...

[Thra3h]

Still not working...

I'm probably missing something fairly simple. Help would be appreciated greatly!

Thra3h

[tpylkko]

try mounting it somewhere where you are sure it has permissions to see whether that might be the reason?

[DougieLawson]

If your USB stick is formatted as FAT, vFAT, exFAT or NTFS then ALL security is done on the mount command. You can't use chown and chmod, it simply does not work.

[Thra3h]

If your USB stick is formatted as FAT, vFAT, exFAT or NTFS then ALL security is done on the mount command. You can't use chown and chmod, it simply does not work.

That worked for me! Thanks so much! Ended up changing the auto-mount line to give permissions to 'www-data'.