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Hi Martin

What user does IGL run under - presumably it's just the currently logged-in user? Just that I'm suddenly getting permissions errors when writing IGL's changes to my FreeNAS box, which is a real head-scratcher, since my PVR user can happily access the media folder - but IGL reckons it can't...

Thanks

[gEd]

What user does IGL run under - presumably it's just the currently logged-in user? Just that I'm suddenly getting permissions errors when writing IGL's changes to my FreeNAS box, which is a real head-scratcher, since my PVR user can happily access the media folder - but IGL reckons it can't...Thanks

Yes but if you are calling it from postprocessing.bat (or any bat launched by the recording service), it runs with the same permissions as the recording service which is typically "local system account" (unless you changed this in services startup).

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Voila le probleme. Thanks - think I can fix that...

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...Well I thought I could.

Running a FreeNAS box to store the media, I've opened up the relevant directory to all users in both CIFS and the underlying FreeBSD/ZFS file system (777). I've set the PVR's recording service to run as the PVR user (which can read from and write to the media directory without a problem) - and still I'm getting 'access denied' errors from IGL. I mean, if the recording service can write a file to the NAS box, why can't IGL do so too? What obvious thing have I missed?

[gEd]

Don't know sorry. Last time I played with samba shares was in 1990 and I had a devil of a job with permissions.

maybe add some extra code to your postprocessing.bat to isolate if it is the bat file permissions or IGL itself.
for example to check write and modify permissions, add

echo hello >> \\FREENAS\media\movies\TV Recordings\test1.txt
ren \\FREENAS\media\movies\TV Recordings\test1.txt \\FREENAS\media\movies\TV Recordings\test2.txt

or

maybe setup FreeNAS with guest access only to provide unrestricted access
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?thr...ide.20948/

else u might need Martin to advise....

[mvallevand]

Sorry nothing iGL can do about this. All my recordings are stored on a NAS though and rename fine although I do use ShareHelper to avoid problems.

Martin

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Ok, well I've written a script in AutoIt that grabs the new name from the IGL log, and renames the saved file. Not ideal and a bit of a workaround, but adding 777 permissions to everything in the media directory in FreeBSD and CIFS still resulted in an access denied error, so at least this works for now.

If anyone else wants the script, I can compile it into an executable, so just ping me.

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Don't know sorry. Last time I played with samba shares was in 1990 and I had a devil of a job with permissions.

maybe add some extra code to your postprocessing.bat to isolate if it is the bat file permissions or IGL itself.
for example to check write and modify permissions, add

echo hello >> \\FREENAS\media\movies\TV Recordings\test1.txt
ren \\FREENAS\media\movies\TV Recordings\test1.txt \\FREENAS\media\movies\TV Recordings\test2.txt

or

maybe setup FreeNAS with guest access only to provide unrestricted access
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?thr...ide.20948/

else u might need Martin to advise....

Hmm, thought I'd revisit this issue since I've rebuilt the PVR with a new motherboard - everything, basically. But that's besides the point, which is that I'm *still* getting this access denied error from iGL, despite the permissions being correct (although Ed your example doesn't work A FQ path in the second filename prompts a bad syntax error). Everything else works fine. If the recording service can read from and write files to the NAS, why can't it do so when it calls iGL? Weird...

[mvallevand]

Sorry I can't help I record to a NAS and it works but I use ShareHelper and don't change permissions.

Martin

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I tried Sharehelper but it made no difference - I don't think the problem is at the client end as I'm using a \\servername config not a drive letter. I've changed the iGL compatibility to run as administrator, see if that makes a difference...