Subject: Re: file permissions
From: Marc Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 19:41:10 EST
Are you using a netatalk 1.5 prerelease or is this 1.4b2+asun2.1.4 ?
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Hi....
> I'm having some trouble with file permissions after the user
> logs into the appleshare....(through the chooser)
> I have a share from netatalk called "web"
> its real location is here
> /var/www/
> I have given rwx permissions to the group of the folder "www" -R
> so basically I did this......
> cd /var
> chgrp web www -R
> chmod g+rwx www -R
> when the user mounts the share "web"... all is good...
> However they can't write to (the root) of the share....
> if they go into the share.... a directory or more... then the permissions
> work fine...
> basically from the mac computer... they can write to here
> /var/www/library/
> but not here /var/www/
> however.. if they log into the linux server directly (telnet in or
> something) and access the /var/www folder...
> they have their permissions with out problems....
> Am I making sense?
> I wondering if netatalk is somehow blocking the permissions on the root of
> the mounted share....
> Has anyone had this before?
> Any help would be great!!!
> thanks
> Mike
>
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