Changing output directory to a SMB share (SAMBA/Ubuntu) doesn't work

[edmeades]

I am in the process of moving my media library to a Linux fileserver that's exporting via samba to a mapped drive on Windows, but Youtarr is unhappy about that. On startup it validates the directory but the GUI reports essentially zero space available and downloads fail because no room on device. Could this be a Docker thing?

Thanks!

[edmeades]

I figured I'd sidestep the mapped directory thing and run it on the fileserver, but it's headless and doesn't run a GUI, which makes the requirement of setting the PW from localhost annoying. It would be cool if there were a CLI-based way to set the PW, acknowledging the risk.

[edmeades]

Full workaround:

I managed to (painfully) get X forwarding working on Windows and do initial auth. Along the way I tried just copying the whole Youtarr directory over but that was too fragile and it barfed on DB errors.

I ended up having to rebuild the channel list manually; while not a huge deal it would be cool if it were portable.

tl;dr: Installation moved and is happily writing to the volume that it didn't like when it was a samba share.