Do I need to install "smbclient" to mount local external storage?

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I’m having trouble with a red square when I try and add my mounted drive as local external storage.

(see Red square of death when I try and add a local drive using the "External storages" plugin - Ubuntu Server)

Would installing smbclient help? I don’t have access to the server at the moment to try it!

Many thanks.

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For local external storage, you won’t need the smbclient plugin. You have to make sure that the webserver user (Ubuntu: www-data) has the permission to access this local folder (which in return can be a network storage but this is managed by your OS). Don’t forget the parent folder!

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Hi tflidd - I am getting this error in my NextCloud logfile:

stat(): stat failed for /media/hdd1/ at /var/www/html/lib/private/Files/Storage/Local.php#140

Any idea what it means?

I have run

sudo chmod -R 0750 /media/
sudo chmod -R 0750 /media/hdd1/

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /media/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /media/hdd1/

I am SURE the permissions are correct!!!