[SOLVED] Permission problems with 8.xx

[Phosphoric]

@Phosphoric

As a postscript, all along I have been assuming (who can forget Benny Hill's mini-lecture on "assume"?) that your USB-mounted SD card is not the system card. 

If, however, you are booting moOde from this USB-mounted uSD card, and if your music files are stored in the /media directory of the filesystem on this card, then you won't be able to access the files using the method I described above. As you can see in your smb.conf file, there's no SMB share defined for /media itself, only for the filesystems of any external devices that have been mounted by Linux in the /media directory.

I suppose you could create a custom smb.conf file but I don't recommend it. This file is subject to change as moOde's configuration settings are changed.

The alternatives are to move your music files to /mnt/SDCARD or to place them on a separate USB drive (which can be another uSD card). I highly recommend the latter since a separate card won't get overwritten by fresh moOde installs.

Regards,
Kent

Hi Kent, thank you once again for your persistence in my problem.

I am not booting from this USB mounted sd card first of all.

I've just tried connecting via a windows share as you suggested and I get a similar error message "Failed to mount Windows share: Invalid argument"

Despite all the help that I have received i have decided to call it a day, I've formatted and mounted 3 different sd cards dozens of times to no avail. I'm getting worried about wearing out the sd slot on my rpi motherboard!
For the time being, my workaround is to remove the USB mounted sd card and transfer all the flac music files to my NAS. That all connects fine to mo0de 8.20 and I'm able to edit my rpi NAS easily from my Linux Mint PC.

Maybe somebody else will have the same experience and come up with a solution, but until then I'm giving it a rest.

Thanks again for all who have tried to help.
Regards
Ray