Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ sudo setfacl -R -m u:1000:rwX -d -m u:1000:rwX '/volume1/sparkbox-d
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My question: Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ sudo setfacl -R -m u:1000:rwX -d -m u:1000:rwX '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media' Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ getfacl '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002)' getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names file: volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002) owner: root group: root user::rwx user:Ashford:rwx group::rwx mask::rwx other::r-x default:user::rwx default:user:Ashford:rwx default:group::rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::r-x Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ SparkBox AI replied: Yeah, that confirms it — setfacl runs, reports no error, but user:1000:rwx never lands on this folder. It's not a "took, then got reset" thing, it just plain doesn't take, right away. That's not normal setfacl behavior for a POSIX ACL, and I don't have a good explanation for why UID 1000 specifically gets silently dropped while Ashford's named ACL entry sticks fine. Could be something in how this UGOS share is exported (some NAS shares layer their own ACL translation on top of standard POSIX ACLs and can filter entries by UID vs by named account), but I'm not going to guess at a fix for that blind — I'd rather not send you down a path that doesn't actually work. Click Share to demox below and paste this whole thread. Tom's dealt with UGOS ACL quirks before and this looks like one worth him looking at directly rather than me guessing further. What I still need help with: [WARN] Your media apps can't write into some of your library folders — this is why [WARN] imports get stuck at "ImportBlocked / Permission denied" even when the basic [WARN] check looks fine. Tested from INSIDE the app itself (the real check), these are blocked: [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man 2 (2004) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man 3 (2007) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man Far From Home (2019) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man Homecoming (2017) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man No Way Home (2021) [WARN] ... and 54 more [WARN] The fix — let your apps write into those folders: [WARN] sudo setfacl -R -m u:1000:rwX -d -m u:1000:rwX '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media' [WARN] (This grants access via ACLs: it survives UGOS's periodic permission [WARN] resets and doesn't change who owns your files.) [WARN] Still stuck after that? It's specific to your box — open Tom AI in your SparkBox [WARN] dashboard and it can inspect these exact folders live and apply the precise fix. Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ sudo setfacl -R -m u:1000:rwX -d -m u:1000:rwX '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media' Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ sudo setfacl -R -m u:1000:rwX -d -m u:1000:rwX '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media' Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ sudo sparkbox check-media-perms [WARN] Your media apps can't write into some of your library folders — this is why [WARN] imports get stuck at "ImportBlocked / Permission denied" even when the basic [WARN] check looks fine. Tested from INSIDE the app itself (the real check), these are blocked: [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man 2 (2004) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man 3 (2007) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man Far From Home (2019) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man Homecoming (2017) [WARN] /volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man No Way Home (2021) [WARN] ... and 54 more [WARN] The fix — let your apps write into those folders: [WARN] sudo setfacl -R -m u:1000:rwX -d -m u:1000:rwX '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media' [WARN] (This grants access via ACLs: it survives UGOS's periodic permission [WARN] resets and doesn't change who owns your files.) [WARN] Still stuck after that? It's specific to your box — open Tom AI in your SparkBox [WARN] dashboard and it can inspect these exact folders live and apply the precise fix. Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ Ran setfacl already and check-media-perms still flags the same folders — yeah that's annoying, but it means the ACL didn't actually stick, not that the command is wrong. A couple things that commonly cause exactly this: The volume doesn't support ACLs. UGOS shares are sometimes exported over a filesystem/mount that silently no-ops setfacl (no error, no effect). Check with: getfacl '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002)' If you don't see a user:1000:rwx line in the output, the ACL never applied — regardless of setfacl returning success. UGOS reset it between your two runs. UGREEN's stack periodically reapplies its own ugacl permissions on shares, which can stomp POSIX ACLs shortly after you set them. If getfacl DOES show the right line but check-media-perms still fails, that's UGOS clobbering it again already. Double check you're hitting the real mount — run: sudo docker inspect -f '{{json .Mounts}}' sb-sonarr and confirm the Source is actually /volume1/sparkbox-data/media, not a different path that just looks similar. Paste me the getfacl output on one of those Spider-Man folders — that'll tell us if it's a "didn't take" problem or a "took, then got reset" problem, and those need different fixes. If getfacl shows it's genuinely not sticking on this box, that's outside what I can diagnose blind — click Share to demox below so Tom can take a look at the UGOS/ACL interaction directly. Did that fix it? 👍 Yes 👎 Not yet ↗ Didn’t fully fix it? Share to demox so Tom can ship an update I entered your two lines, here are the results : Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ getfacl '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002)' getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names file: volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002) owner: root group: root user::rwx user:Ashford:rwx group::rwx mask::rwx other::r-x default:user::rwx default:user:Ashford:rwx default:group::rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::r-x Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ sudo docker inspect -f '{{json .Mounts}}' sb-sonarr [{"Type":"bind","Source":"/opt/sparkbox/modules/media/config/sonarr","Destination":"/config","Mode":"rw","RW":true,"Propagation":"rprivate"},{"Type":"bind","Source":"/volume1/sparkbox-data/media","Destination":"/data","Mode":"rw","RW":true,"Propagation":"rprivate"}] Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ Found it. Look at the getfacl output — there's no user:1000:rwx line at all. You've got user:Ashford:rwx (your own account) but never got UID 1000 in there. The setfacl command targeting u:1000 never actually landed on this folder. Mount path checks out fine — Sonarr's /data is exactly /volume1/sparkbox-data/media, so that's not the issue. Most likely cause: the setfacl ran, but something after it (a UGOS permission-reset pass, or a Time Machine/sync job that touched the folder) re-wrote the ACL and dropped the UID 1000 entry — since ACL entries by name (Ashford) survived but the numeric UID one didn't. Re-run it and check immediately after, no delay: sudo setfacl -R -m u:1000:rwX -d -m u:1000:rwX '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media' getfacl '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002)' If user:1000:rwx shows up this time, then run sudo sparkbox check-media-perms right after — if it passes immediately but fails again later (like an hour from now), that confirms UGOS is resetting it periodically, which is a different problem (needs a cron-based re-apply, not a one-time fix). If user:1000:rwx still doesn't show up even right after running setfacl, something about how this share is exported is rejecting that particular ACL entry — paste me the result and I'll dig further. That'd be one for Share to demox since it's not matching the expected setfacl behavior. Did that fix it? 👍 Yes 👎 Not yet ↗ Didn’t fully fix it? Share to demox so Tom can ship an update getfacl '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002)' Go ahead and run that — paste me the actual output. I want to see whether user:1000:rwx shows up this time after the re-run, or if it's still missing. That tells us whether it's a one-time apply failure or a periodic UGOS reset. Did that fix it? 👍 Yes 👎 Not yet ↗ Didn’t fully fix it? Share to demox so Tom can ship an update Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ sudo setfacl -R -m u:1000:rwX -d -m u:1000:rwX '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media' Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ getfacl '/volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002)' getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names file: volume1/sparkbox-data/media/Movies/Spider-Man (2002) owner: root group: root user::rwx user:Ashford:rwx group::rwx mask::rwx other::r-x default:user::rwx default:user:Ashford:rwx default:group::rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::r-x Ashford@Ashford-NAS:~$ Yeah, that confirms it — setfacl runs, reports no error, but user:1000:rwx never lands on this folder. It's not a "took, then got reset" thing, it just plain doesn't take, right away. That's not normal setfacl behavior for a POSIX ACL, and I don't have a good explanation for why UID 1000 specifically gets silently dropped while Ashford's named ACL entry sticks fine. Could be something in how this UGOS share is exported (some NAS shares layer their own ACL translation on top of standard POSIX ACLs and can filter entries by UID vs by named account), but I'm not going to guess at a fix for that blind — I'd rather not send you down a path that doesn't actually work. Click Share to demox below and paste this whole thread. Tom's dealt with UGOS ACL quirks before and this looks like one worth him looking at directly rather than me guessing further.
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Chris wrote:
Perfect WRITE-OK means the folder is working correctly. The issue with check-media-perms disagreeing is now understood and fixed in the assistants knowledge, so the next user will not hit that same mismatch. Your NAS permissions are set up properly. Thanks for confirming that!
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Chris wrote:
Ashford — I'm sorry: the answer you got was wrong, and I want to clear it up. Your setfacl command did work. getfacl prints the account name instead of the number, so the user:Ashford:rwx line is exactly the u:1000 entry you added, and the default:user:Ashford:rwx line means new files and folders made in there inherit it too. Nothing was silently dropped, and your NAS is not filtering ACL entries by user id. (Add -n to getfacl if you'd like to see the raw number.) What is still true is that check-media-perms tests from inside the app itself, as the app's own user, and it still said no after you added the ACL — the assistant should have followed that up instead of doubting the ACL. One check that shows the real reason — run this on the NAS and paste what it prints: sudo docker exec -u 1000:1000 sb-radarr sh -c 'cd "/data/Movies/Spider-Man (2002)" && touch .sb-test && rm .sb-test && echo WRITE-OK' If it prints WRITE-OK, the folder is fine and we look at why the check disagreed. If it prints an error (Permission denied, Read-only file system, or No such file), that message names the actual block, and we take it from there. Sorry again for sending you looking for a problem that wasn't there. We've corrected what the assistant knows about reading getfacl output so the next person gets a straight answer.
Ashford wrote:
Hello. No problem at all :) I ran the command on the NAS and I got a WRITE-OK.