# Permission Denied creating backup directory
**URL:** https://kopia.discourse.group/t/permission-denied-creating-backup-directory/2369
**Category:** General Topics
**Created:** [October 21, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/permission-denied-creating-backup-directory/2369 "2023-10-21T16:53:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@gavrillo](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/gavrillo)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/permission-denied-creating-backup-directory/2369/1 "2023-10-21T16:53:26Z")
Hi
I’ve set up a server on a Ubuntu 22.04 machine. In case it matters the disk I’m trying to backup to is using btrfs. I’ve set the permissions in the backup directory to 777 from /media on downwards. The disk is a Samba share.
On the client side again I have a Ubuntu 22.04 machine using btrfs and Samba. In this case the backup drive is connected to the server drive, so it looks like a local drive.
When I start Kopia client UI it connects the the repository but when I try to backup I get the following error:
As mentioned I’ve changed the permissions 777 so that anyone can access the path to the repository. I haven’t tried to change the permissions on the files Kopia has created.
I’m flummoxed. Help would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@gavrillo](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/gavrillo)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/permission-denied-creating-backup-directory/2369/2 "2023-10-22T17:56:17Z")
Shut everything down and re-booted server then client et voila! just done my first backup to the server over a LAN.
I can’t see how to mark this as solved but it is.