Description of issue: I’m trying to setup sonarr to move from sickbeard. Current setup, main machine runs ubuntu 16.04LTS. Sonarr is installed on a virtualbox windows 7 machine. I have gone through the steps to disable sonarr running as a service as I’ve seen in several threads. I have my main media directory mapped to the virtual machine and it can be accessed either through E:\TV or \\vboxsvr\media\TV. Sickbeard has no issues accessing this drive and dumping files over. Whenever I try to use the “add series” option in sonarr, I can browse to the above mappings, but it hangs up when I try to jump into the TV folder, and it refuses to load no longer how long I let it sit.
I’ve searched, and searched, and nothing I try fixes this. If I’ve failed to search well enough to find the solution my apologies.
I’m running in a VM because I want all services like sonarr isolated from the rest of the server. Maybe unnecessary, but that’s just how I set it up.
I did read the FAQ, and like I said, I’ve disabled it running as a service, and no matter the path i give it I get the same problem. That means that either going through E:\TV or \\VBOXSVR\MEDIA\TV gives me the same results. My sickbeard installation has no problems accessing this mapped drive, so i wouldn’t think it’s a permissions issue.
When I get home tonight I’ll double check my sonarr startup config and reboot everything.
So, confirming that I do believe this to be a permissions issue. The folders for TV, movies, whatever, were created on the ubuntu side. And Sonarr refuses to read them. But if I create a folder from inside the windows virtual box, and move some media into it, sonarr can read it perfectly. I don’t understand why, but for now I guess I can just move everything to a new folder and work that way.
FWIW, I have checked the permissions from the ubuntu side, and they are wide open. they look identical to the permissions set to the folder created from inside the virtual box.
This might be a bit off topic but if you want to run such services in isolation docker containers might be a better fit than a windows vm. File permission problems was the major reason I ditched windows for linux