Having bought an HP ProLiant server, I have finally managed to install Ubuntu Server on it and configure all the shares on it to replicate my old Edimax NAS.
The problem comes when I try to run get_iplayer. What I used to do was run get_iplayer on this machine but save the files to the Edimax in a Media_Share folder. That same folder exists on the Ubuntu box, but although I can write to it from here, get_iplayer on ubuntu can't write to it.
My intention is to have get_iplayer run every few hours but I'm guessing that it will still run as the main user on the box and therefore will still have problems writing to the share.
Plainly I'd like a solution to this. My initial thought was to add the user to the same group as the one that owns the share but is this the best way to do it or is there another way?