This is about to break me. Either I’m just a complete moron or I just don’t get Linux.
Back in September, I setup emby. I have files in emby/Movies and emby/TV. From what I can tell, the emby/ folder is setup under the user “emby”
Today, I want to add a file to one of those folders - I don’t care which, either Movies or TV. I can’t. I’m assuming it’s because of user issues. I think I’m too dumb to understand why. From what I can tell, most of my folders are setup under user ‘me’ rather than ‘emby’.
In short, how on earth do I just add a file to the emby folder. Please help.
This sounds like an ownership/permissions issue.
By default each user has a home directory that is owned by that user with a related group ownership and each is discrete for each user on the system.
There are ways to make it so other users can access the same files/directories and the simplest is to set each desired user name to have a shared group membership and the intended directories to have shared group ownership.
How to do that is relatively easy and can be found by learning linux commands.
These are great references for learning and have been written by users and updated over time. The first is a downloadable pdf and the second is an on-line reference. Both are easily searchable.
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