Local External Storage not working?

[gas85]

@jolly_jaybird

I can create files in the Ubuntu file system, but this is not reflected on Nextcloud.

To do so, you need to ether check this folder via NC GUI to trigger immediately refresh, or run command (e.g. via OS cronjob) to do re scan of external storage’s:

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ files:scan --path="tschneemann/files/externalShareMountName"

Check this out:

@gas85

I used this script to rescan external shares only. Script will fetch data about all external storages of all users and perform scan of them.

I have set rights to 664 and added my NC user www-data to the group of local folder owner - in my case sambashare) by running following command (see explanation here):

sudo usermod -a -G sambashare www-data

You can check if user belongs to correct groups by running command groups <user>, in my case:

# groups www-data
www-data : www-data sambashare

@jolly_jaybird

Could you please verify if this is the right way to point to a local storage folder?
I have entered /mnt/lvm under the “Configuration” field since it says Location before I enter anything.

I have /at the end e.g. /mnt/lvm/ not sure if it is really relevant. And in your case it could be as following:

@jolly_jaybird

Is this relevant to the issues I’m having?

Nope, if you mounting local folder, not samba I have the same message on top.