Nextcloud uses the www-data user internally. Id is 33. You should be able to "chown 33 dirname" on the nfs server. That may work?
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I want to try that, but i've got to add: i want to access this folder from my desktop too. i added it the same way in /etc/fstab and it worked instantly
That's what group permissions are for. You can add yourself to the www-data group and chown www-data:www-data path. Then you and the container should be able to operate on the contents.
Do not forget to log out and log back in after you add yourself to a new group. Your desktop environment is a program, and it won’t know about the update until you spawn a new graphical shell with the updated permissions.
Or just start a new login shell.
You need to allow nextcloud to control the file permissions. You can do this with the no_root_squash option in the /etc config file
I added this! Your solution + chmod 0770 on my folder made it work. Thanks for helping!
Try telling Docker its rw explicitly:
- /mnt/photos:/photos:rw
It should be rw by default but I can't see what else could be happening. What account runs docker? What account runs nextcloud inside the container?
how can i check which accounts are used? I think my normal user account sets up docker, with uid & gid = 1000. I don't think i created an account in the container so probably root.
The official NC docker container uses the "www-data" internally to run the services. This will get important if you ever want to run tasks via "docker compose exec".
When I run: docker exec -it nextcloud bash I get: root@nextcloud:/var/www/html#, does this mean it uses www?
From that prompt, type ls -l. That will show you a listing of the items in the /var/www/html directory and there will be columns for the user and group that own each file. It will most likely say www-data.
That won't fix it because its a permission issue at the NFS level