If you login as your admin user to your Synology web admin and open Control Panel>Shared Folder you should see it there and be able to edit the properties.
Connecting as admin. I see the share owner is root. I'll need to research further to see what I have to do next
Doesn't work as it's a hidden share
Did you happen to create a user named channels?
Over SSH you could run the following:
cd /volume1
sudo mv ChannelsDVR ChannelsDVROld
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While you're in with SSH you can tell if the user channels exists
sudo synouser --get channels
I got it installed, finally.
Thanks for the support and patience with my lack of Linux knowledge.
Glad to hear you got it working.
Mind sharing what you found?
Your experience may help others to avoid the same problem.
I'm not sure that every step of my process was valid because there was a lot of trial and error involved (and it's likely that my process below was not efficient or pure), but my learnings were
- I obviously had an old install of ChannelsDVR on my Synology (before I upgraded to DSM 7) that I had forgotten about. Therefore the new install that I tried failed every time.
- The old version of the ChannelsDVR share was not visible from the Synology web-based administration console as it's a hidden share.
- I had to SSH into Synology (I used Putty on my Windows machine) to confirm that there was indeed a hidden ChannelsDVR share
- Then I needed root access via SSH to Synology to make the required changes. Root access (username 'root') needs the root password so I enabled the 'admin' user on Synology and used the 'admin' password for the root password.
- Once I had root access, and remembering to use the 'sudo' command each time, I deleted the old ChannelsDVR with "sudo rm -d ChannelsDVR"
- Once I confirm the share was deleted, a new install using the directions on the ChannelsDVR site thenproceeded without a proiblem
I hope this helps.
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