Unable to add root folder

[Tealeaf]

Hi

I've installed yams and am following the configuration tutorials. When I try to add the data/movies folder to Radarr I get the error message

Unable to add root folder
Path '/data/movies' does not exist

The folder is an smb share. The YAMS user wrote the additional folders, and I can touch test and it will create a document.

Bit of a linux noob, so really appreciate all your help.

[rogs]

Hey @Tealeaf!

Some questions:

• Where did you mount the SMB share?
• Did you set your SMB share as your media directory?
• I know your user has the right permissions to write in the SMB share, but are you sure the user that runs YAMS has permissions to write on the SMB share?
• Have you checked the Radarr logs? docker logs radarr --follow

Cheers!

Roger.

[Tealeaf]

Hi @rogs !

For a little more info, I'm using an lxc so I've mounted the share using this tutorial but with the mount in the lxc named as /mnt/nas

I used /mnt/nas as my media directory (I have also tried changing the puid and pgid to 1000, however my user should be 1001)

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# Base configuration
PUID=1001
PGID=1001
MEDIA_DIRECTORY=/mnt/nas
INSTALL_DIRECTORY=/opt/yams
MEDIA_SERVICE=jellyfin

I installed it with the user that has permissions to write in the SMB share, how do I check that is the correct user that runs YAMS?

This is the print out to docker logs radarr --follow

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───────────────────────────────────────
GID/UID
───────────────────────────────────────

User UID:    1001
User GID:    1001
───────────────────────────────────────
Linuxserver.io version: 5.26.2.10099-ls276
Build-date: 2025-06-15T04:52:48+00:00
───────────────────────────────────────
    

[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
[Info] Bootstrap: Starting Radarr - /app/radarr/bin/Radarr - Version 5.26.2.10099 
[Info] AppFolderInfo: Data directory is being overridden to [/config] 
[Debug] Bootstrap: Console selected 
[Info] AppFolderInfo: Data directory is being overridden to [/config] 
[Info] AppFolderInfo: Data directory is being overridden to [/config] 
[Info] MigrationController: *** Migrating data source=/config/radarr.db;cache size=-20000;datetimekind=Utc;journal mode=Wal;pooling=True;version=3;busytimeout=100 *** 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: DatabaseEngineVersionCheck migrating 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: PerformDBOperation  

[Info] NzbDrone.Core.Datastore.Migration.Framework.NzbDroneSQLiteProcessor: Performing DB Operation 
[Info] DatabaseEngineVersionCheck: SQLite 3.48.0 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: => 0.1252068s 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: DatabaseEngineVersionCheck migrated 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: => 0.1303912s 
[Info] MigrationController: *** Migrating data source=/config/logs.db;cache size=-20000;datetimekind=Utc;journal mode=Wal;pooling=True;version=3;busytimeout=100 *** 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: DatabaseEngineVersionCheck migrating 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: PerformDBOperation  

[Info] NzbDrone.Core.Datastore.Migration.Framework.NzbDroneSQLiteProcessor: Performing DB Operation 
[Info] DatabaseEngineVersionCheck: SQLite 3.48.0 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: => 0.0185134s 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: DatabaseEngineVersionCheck migrated 
[Info] FluentMigrator.Runner.MigrationRunner: => 0.0262343s 
[Info] Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime: Now listening on: http://[::]:7878 
[Info] CommandExecutor: Starting 2 threads for tasks. 
[Info] Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime: Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down. 
[Info] Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime: Hosting environment: Production 
[Info] Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime: Content root path: /app/radarr/bin 
[ls.io-init] done.
[Info] ManagedHttpDispatcher: IPv4 is available: True, IPv6 will be disabled 
[Warn] RadarrErrorPipeline: Invalid request Validation failed: 
 -- Path: Path '/data/movies' does not exist 

[rogs]

Ok, it seems like your mount it's not correct. Here's an example fstab record:

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//192.168.0.123/YourSMBShare /mnt/your-share/ cifs username=your-smb-username,password=your-smb-password,uid=your-server-user,gid=your-server-user-group 0 0

[Tealeaf]

Sorry if this is a silly question but by

uid=your-server-user,gid=your-server-user-group

Do you mean the UID and GID from my SMB share server (Ie from Truenas?) or from the PUID=1001 PGID=1001 from the LXC container?

[rogs]

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uid=your-server-user,gid=your-server-user-group

That's your host server user and group. Your SMB share server credentials are your-smb-username and your-smb-password