EACCES: Permission denied [rmdir]

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ILikeYourFace

I try to synchronize (variant "Mirror") between two SMB mounts and I get the error message:
Cannot delete directory "/media/NAS_Disk_2/The Archives/External Hard Drive/NAS_Library/Drive_1/Audio Dramas".

EACCES: Permission denied [rmdir]
I'm unsure what other information to give you, but this happens every time so if you need more info, just tell me and I can try it again to find out.

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- OS: Arch Linux
- DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.3
- App Type: Donation Edition
- App Version: 14.9
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Plerry

It seems that "/media/NAS_Disk_2/The Archives/External Hard Drive/NAS_Library/Drive_1/Audio Dramas" is part of the right-side (destination-side) of your Mirror sync, and that the user credential with which you connect to /media/NAS_Disk_2/ does not have write access to said directory.
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ILikeYourFace

How would I attain write access to said directory through FFS? I can do things just fine in Dolphin.
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Plerry

You have to organize that outside FFS.
• Find out what user credentials your Linux system uses when connecting to your NAS, and in your NAS provide write access to the relevant directories for those user credentials
OR
• On your NAS, find out which NAS user(s) have write access to the relevant directories, and on your Linux system mount your /media/NAS_Disk_2 resource using any of the user credentials that have write access, e.g. as described here.
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ILikeYourFace

So, it turns out I *didn't* have access to that particular folder even in Dolphin. I don't know how it got to like this, but that one specific folder had different permissions than even the other ones in the same folder.

Anyway, I got it fixed.

Thanks so much!