Media Folder Permissions

I am having trouble setting permissions of a few disks I added to my ubuntu server. I got the disks working fine and mounting on boot-up. The disks boot and mount into the location /media/TV for one, and /media/Movies for another drive. I have them both shared via SMB and the server is shared via SSH so I can connect to the drive via SMB or SSH.


I can go to the terminal on my Mac, connect to the server via ssh, and enter the command

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sudo cp /home/myhome/stuff /media/TV/stuff

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and it will copy over the content to my TV drive with no problem. The minute I try and open up the SSH via an sftp program, cyberduck is what I am using, or Filezilla is an alternative. Neither work. I get an error:

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"Failure (SSH_FX_FAILURE: An error occurred, but no specific error code exists to describe the failure.)."

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I then tried to copy over the files by connecting to it from Finder on my Mac via smb://myUbuntuServer

I tried to copy some files over that were on my mac to this /media/TV SMB share and it feeds me the error:

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"Items can’t be copied to “Ubuntu-TV” because you don’t have permission to read them."

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When I set up the SMB share... I specifically called the folder Ubuntu-TV, (pointing straight to /media/TV) here is my /etc/samba/smb.conf file

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[Ubuntu-TV]
path =/media/TV
available = yes
valid users = myUserAccount
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes

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I've tried

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sudo chmod -R 775 /media/TV

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nothing

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sudo chmod -R 777 /media/TV

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nothing

What am I doing wrong here!?

Doh!

I was able to solve the problem with the following lines, I did all 4 of them. If anyone would like to roughly explain what these lines did, and from my understanding, I think if I would have done the top line only it would have worked. But I did them all. Is this bad/good? A quick explanation would be amazing :)

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sudo chown -R USERNAME:USERNAME /media/TV
sudo chgrp plugdev /media/TV
sudo chmod g+w /media/TV
sudo chmod +t /media/TV

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Now it works!