Basically, exact same outcome when changing these as root.

I even tried to change these as root and for the drive that appeared to work previously but didn’t “save”, I ended up with the same outcome and got the same error (not enough privileges) on the drive that had that error. However, even the drive that appeared to work doesn’t “save” the new group. When I check those files, it’s showing that it’s owned by my normal user and group - so I don’t understand why I don’t have the privileges to change this or even what’s different about these files because the owner and group appear to be the same as all the other files on the drives. On one drive, it appeared to work (when I changed it as my own user, not root - I didn’t get any error messages and it appeared to finish the job) but on other drives, I keep getting error messages saying that I don’t have the privileges to change some of the files.

I attempted to change the owner/user group to my newly created group, but it’s not working. I thought that way, I could give the media server software access to the media files but not necessarily to any/everything else that my user group could access, if other things were owned by the group “users”. I used YaST to create a new group called mediaservers and I added Plex, Emby, and my user to this group. I currently have my primary username set as the owner of the drives and the group is set to “users” (of which my user was the only member). I have external hard drives formatted as exFAT and NTFS (I’m working on switching them all over to exFAT but not there yet). Hurdle: give both programs/apps access to the media files (stored on external HDDs) Goal: to setup & use Emby & Plex (both software apps are already installed and running) I’m new to oST (though not to Linux) and I’m struggling to get this sorted out.

I’m trying to setup my MediaServer software (Plex/Emby).

Ubuntu plex media server permissions