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tladuke

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 176

How do you set up your directories/permissions for your media?

I have a PC under my TV. It has all the media for the house. What's the best way to get :

rtorrent
mpd
xbmc/vlc/boxee
my username
maybe some other usernames

to all have the permissions they need on my media?

i'm thinking about making a /home/share or /home/public...
Is there a standard way?

tkdfighter

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 126

Re: How do you set up your directories/permissions for your media?

What I did was make a public Samba and NFS share (default for NFS is /export). In there I have one public writeable folder /export/public, all others are read-only, owned by root. When I copy new stuff into public I later move it to a read-only directory. This works quite well.
In your case I would set up a seperate user for each service and give them a private directory to write to. To my knowledge, only rtorrent will need write access.

I don't work with all services listed above, but it should be trivial to configure them to read from a central store location.