ROCK gives me no acces to Storage file

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NUC 10i5FNHN gives me no acces to the Storage file, message says I have no permission to access that file.

I’m trying to access form a MacBook Pro OS 10.15

Any suggestion ?

Thank you in advance

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Are you using guest as user and password as you need to enter those

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Is the storage on an external USB, or a secondary internal Hard drive? The primary hard drive in a ROCK setup cannot be used for storage, it is just used for the Operating System.

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Thank you @Rugby, maybe I should have gave all that information in the first post:

I’m using an external USB. ROCK is working fine at home and with Roon ARC.

BTW what are the user and password in my ROCK ? I connect as a guest, could that be the problem?

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Follow up question. The USB drive is attached to the ROCK NUC and you are trying to access it from a Mac?

Second, the external USB drive was that originally formatted on a MAC, and if so, what format did you use. If you used a HFS+ format then that can cause write issues when attached to a Linux based PC.

Rock presents all attached storage as a open share with guest access.

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Yes to the first question.

And to the second one, the external USB was formatted in FAT 32

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The drive should be viewable over the network as it is shared by the ROCK NUC. I am a Windows guy, but, another Mac user here posted

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Yep, exactly there’s where my problem starts, I can see the drive in the finder, but Rock gives me no access to it, it says I have no permission to see its content.

I can access the content with Roon and I can play all the music on it, but I can not import, I have to connect it to my MacBook to do it

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If it I’d as I mentioned HFS+ formatted which cannot write to, then you will need to copy everything off the drive and reformat as exFAT.

If this is the case, personsll6, I’d buy a new drive, format it to exFAT and copy everything to it. That way there is a backup of your music

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How are you connecting to it using connect to server in the finder menu?

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He’s already said it’s fat32 which should not cause Rock to have any write permissions to the drive. But I have had file access permissions on Linux from drives and folders that had been created first by a Mac as they give them funky permissions. Perhaps attach to mac and ensure that it has permissions to allow anyone to access.

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Yes, I missed that. :frowning: Sorry.