I wanted to change permissions on my external drives that are automounted however I have tried by sudo nautilus and then going to gui and permissions and changing it however it does not let me.

I ran the ls -l and get drwx------ 1 xbmc xbmc

the gui shows below.

owner xbmc folder access create and delete files file access ---

Group xbmc folder access none file access ---

others folder access none file access ---

how can I change it so that everyone has permission to access the drive and ALL folders/files inside of it. I am trying to get plexmedia server running and I cant see my drives via the webpage manage to add it to my source to be able to stream my content.

I want to change the "others" access so that I can access all my drives on the /media path to get read and write for all my folders from anywhere.

you can see my drives that are mounted here (external drives are #18,19,20) http://paste2.org/p/1754386

I think this might do the trick...

chmod -R 777 'folder name on drive'

I tried that already for the whole drive name and it did not change any of the permissions. Should I try it for just the folders that I want?

Edit- tried to change just one folder on the drive and it did not change the permissions. tried with sudo chmod -R 777 and did not change it either

All three drives are owned by user xbmc and not root aswell. I am able to access them thru samba with no problem however I am trying to access them thru plex media server and the drives show up however I cannot get access to the folders/files inside the drives.

If plex media server can see the drives, just not their content, then yes I would try that command to the folders you wish to access.

tried it and nothing.

also tried below

$ sudo chmod ug+rwx /to path
$ sudo chmod ug+rw /to path

and did not change the permissions