SOLVED: jellyfin does not have permission to access the drive my movies are stored on?

[finalgirlfall]

Oh well that doesn't look right. Is jellyfin a service user that runs Jellyfin on your machine. You can try

Code:

sudo su - jellyfin

and that will allow you to run commands as the jellyfin user. At that point, run the touch commands from earlier. Testing on my machine, touch didn't work with the -c flag on su.

i'm not sure how to answer your question about a "service user"--could you clarify?

when i tried running su - jellyfin i got an error (Authentication failure--and i'm sure i was typing the password correctly), but su - on its own works. unsure what's up with that, since i ran cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd and jellyfin is a user on the pi...