Failed to get bucket: googleapi: Error 403: xyz does not have storage.objects.list access to bucket., forbidden

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Hi,

I am a first time user of Google Cloud platform and also for rclone.
So i seem to have gotten through most initialization procedures.

  1. Signed up for the free trial of the google cloud platform
  2. Installed rclone on a CentOS 6.9 system
  3. I seem to have created the remote fine following the necessary instructions. I have access to the system remotely so i had to visit the specified url and explicitly give rclone access to my gmail account and then type in the code etc.

I have the following output towards the end

[remote]
type = google cloud storage
client_id =
client_secret =
project_number = project1
service_account_file =
object_acl =
bucket_acl =
location =
storage_class =
token = {…snip…}

y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d>y

Current remotes:

Name Type
==== ====
remote google cloud storage

rclone lsd remote:
The above works fine and no output since there are no buckets.

But trying to create a bucket fails

rclone mkdir remote:bucket
2018/06/06 17:49:51 ERROR : Attempt 1/3 failed with 1 errors and: failed to get bucket: googleapi: Error 403: xyz does not have storage.objects.list access to bucket., forbidden
2018/06/06 17:49:51 ERROR : Attempt 2/3 failed with 1 errors and: failed to get bucket: googleapi: Error 403: xyz does not have storage.objects.list access to bucket., forbidden
2018/06/06 17:49:51 ERROR : Attempt 3/3 failed with 1 errors and: failed to get bucket: googleapi: Error 403: xyz does not have storage.objects.list access to bucket., forbidden
2018/06/06 17:49:51 Failed to mkdir: failed to get bucket: googleapi: Error 403: xyz does not have storage.objects.list access to bucket., forbidden

I have checked the IAM permissions. xyz is the owner for the project.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Bucket names are globally unique, so you’ll have to choose your own unique name instead of bucket. I think that is probably the problem.

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Yes, i should have tried that out first. Works like a charm. Thanks a lot

rclone mkdir remote:bucketvtl1
rclone sync /tmp/yum.log remote:bucketvtl1
rclone ls remote:bucketvtl1
315 yum.log

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I should probably change the docs to make sure that users know they need to choose a unique name… This is true for s3, gcs but not for swift, azureblob (I think)…