Permissions problem with alias on OS X

[jester]

I'm trying to get Subsonic set up on a Mac, but I'm getting permissions errors when I try to index my music folder. I use an alias for the folder (the actual folder is on a networked drive, and the location changes from time to time as I change my networking setup), but everything has appropriate permissions; even if I chmod the alias to 777, it fails. The error log gives me:

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[2011-03-31 05:12:30,277] WARN FileUtil - Failed to list children for /Users/homeserver/RemoteMusic
[2011-03-31 05:12:30,277] WARN FileUtil - Failed to list children for /Users/homeserver/RemoteMusic
[2011-03-31 05:12:41,248] INFO SearchService - Starting to create search index.
[2011-03-31 05:12:41,265] ERROR SearchService - Failed to create search index.
java.lang.SecurityException: Access denied to file /Users/homeserver
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.MusicFileService.getMusicFile(MusicFileService.java:68)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.domain.MusicFile.createMusicFile(MusicFile.java:362)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.domain.MusicFile.getParent(MusicFile.java:266)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.metadata.MetaDataParser.guessArtist(MetaDataParser.java:102)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.metadata.DefaultMetaDataParser.getRawMetaData(DefaultMetaDataParser.java:39)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.metadata.MetaDataParser.getMetaData(MetaDataParser.java:43)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.domain.MusicFile.getMetaData(MusicFile.java:242)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.SearchService$Line.forFile(SearchService.java:717)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.SearchService$Scanner.visit(SearchService.java:813)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.domain.MusicFile.accept(MusicFile.java:348)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.SearchService.doCreateIndex(SearchService.java:139)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.SearchService.access$000(SearchService.java:60)
        at net.sourceforge.subsonic.service.SearchService$1.run(SearchService.java:113)


Even if I move the RemoteMusic alias to /, I get the same error.

What should I be doing? Thanks.

[jester]

Well, I just did a regular link instead of an alias and it's working fine. So I'll stick with that.