YAMS Forum

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 10:58 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:43 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:35 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:45 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:21 am**

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?

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2025 11:34 am**

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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

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