Hi,

I’m trying my best to setup Nextcloud on my mediaserver, but I cannot work out the permissions to my data folder.

My setup is as follows: proxmox server openmediavault VM with 8tb disk and nfs shares debian mediaserver with docker compose (including nextcloud docker)

the nfs share is set to 775. I linked it in my debian server through /etc/fstab. I can write to the folder without a problem.

In my docker compose file i linked /mnt/photos:/photos to the nextcloud container. When i login to my container i cannot write files to the folder.

When i change the share to 777, i can write files, but nextcloud setup stops and says my permissions are wide open, so it won’t continue the setup.

I turn it back to other:read/execute and the container cannot write to the folder anymore.

What am i doing wrong?

  • atzanteolEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Nextcloud uses the www-data user internally. Id is 33. You should be able to “chown 33 dirname” on the nfs server. That may work?

    • atek@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I want to try that, but i’ve got to add: i want to access this folder from my desktop too. i added it the same way in /etc/fstab and it worked instantly

      • atzanteolEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        That’s what group permissions are for. You can add yourself to the www-data group and chown www-data:www-data path. Then you and the container should be able to operate on the contents.

        • medEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Do not forget to log out and log back in after you add yourself to a new group. Your desktop environment is a program, and it won’t know about the update until you spawn a new graphical shell with the updated permissions.