Permission denied on WD media live hub share on network - MAC

james10174 wrote:

Looks like I found the solution. Do the following in console

 

 

sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/WDTVLiveHub/*

sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/WDTVLiveHub/*

sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/WDTVLiveHub/*

sudo chmod -N /Volumes/WDTVLiveHub/*

Last command doesn’t seem to work but everything is fixed now! Don’t know if I have to do this everytime or not.

 

I had the same problem, and I think I have a simpler answer.

It should also help fverquin with the problem about deeper files and folders not being accessible.

Just do this:

sudo chmod -R 777 /Volumes/WDTVLiveHub

Where -R means ‘apply this command recursively to the entire directory tree (under WDTVLiveHub, that is)’

and 777 means ‘let ANYONE read/write/execute these files’.

You will have to do this every time you connect to the Hub, because for some reason Mac OSX defaults this connection so that the user can write and execute files (yeah, sounds odd, but this is necessary to delete files or overwrite them), but not read them.  Huh.  Not going there.

There are some other sneaky things one might try, but I don’t know the Mac OS well enough to guess what other trouble might arise.  A simple script file with the command as above could be run easily each time the connection is made, and that might simplify things.

Good luck!