Why am I getting "This path does not exist or is not accessible." using Splunk Web in Splunk Light to monitor a certain folder?

[jmichelgarcia]

I just installed Splunk Light 6.2.5 on CentOS 7.

Using the web interface, I go to AddData screen, then Monitor, then Files and directory
I'm trying to monitor the following folder : /mnt/external_drive/<folder> and I'm getting the error :

This path does not exist or is not accessible.

• the /mnt folder has 777 permissions.
• the external_drive belongs to user jmg and to group jmg
• user splunk (which is running splunk) belongs to group jmg
• Doing su - splunk, I can navigate from / to the desired folder.

How can I debug this ?
Any advices?

[fahimeh]

Where exactly do you see this error?

[PickleRick]

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[jmichelgarcia · Accepted solution]

I feel dumb, but it worked using :

/mnt/<external_drive>/<folder>/*