Serviio

Hi,

I can not access external drives from the serviio console, external drives do not show up, even though there are visible on OSX Finder.

PLease help, all my movies are an external drive ...

Thank you
Geoffroy

I'm guessing about a Mac, but under Windows Serviio runs under a system account, not a normal user account. Most system accounts have limited access to network resources. Items on the network that your user account can see are either not accessible or lacking permission to use the network resource. I believe the Mac version has some sort of similar service account that is running the service. How to change that, I have no idea for a Mac.

Hopefully someone with a Mac background has the explanation on how to change it, but I wanted to at least let you know the likely cause.

I will add that with Linux (which of course has some similarities to OSX), the only way I could connect to a network share was to create a link in a local folder, then tell Serviio to use the local link.

just posting this for ease of access, the solution has to do with Mac OS Catalina and its weird new dual drive appearance when you look at it. one drive for data, one drive for settings that you cannot touch.
Go to System pref, security and privacy, click on privacy, click on FULL DISK ACCESS, click lock, put password in, check box for Java, close and instant access.