Folder access on My Book Live

[muurrrr]

Hi, new user to this forum because of the following issue.

I cannot access one folder on my book live.  I have tried everything that I know from a permissions perspective.  I’m using a MacBook Pro with OS X.

The folder I want to open is ‘Shared Music’ as in the image below.  Every other folder opens fine.  I haven’t done anything to make the ‘Shared Music’ folder behave any differently to the others.

When I click to open, I get the following message…

Has anyone got any advice?

I’ve tried using the My Book Live Dashboard to change permissions but i’m just having no joy…  Thanks in advance.

John

[wdlive76]

The directory is probably set with permission for root.  You need to change the permisions via a SSH session in the MBL command line.

Use Terminal to open a SSH session.  Then  use the command

chmod -R 777 /shares/'Shared Music'

If you don’t understand what SSH is, then search the forum about how to enable it and how to use it. 

[muurrrr]

I really appreciate your response, but I only understand about 5% of your solution.

Is there an idiots guide? or simple stepped instructions?