Re: Permissions Problems (or: Spare a clue for a newbie, guv'nor?)


Subject: Re: Permissions Problems (or: Spare a clue for a newbie, guv'nor?)
From: Daniel E. Lautenschleger (dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 17:17:47 EST


I have also found this to be true...

-Dan

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Eric Hillman wrote:

> I've been wrestling with netatalk 1.5pre4 on a RH Linux 7.0 box all day,
> and I'm on the verge of complete collapse here. I imagine this is a simple
> problem, but I can't seem to see it, and the documentation is somewhat, um,
> oblique, particularly for those of us unfamiliar with AppleTalk to begin
> with.
>
> Anyways, after much finagling, I have finally managed to get users able to
> log in and view their home directories. Unfortunately, they can't create
> files there. The error the user gets is generally something along the lines
> of "cannot create file (file locked)." with buttons for "Stop" and
> "Continue". Whichever I choose, the user can succesfully create an empty
> file, which they can open, but not edit or delete (errors are usually
> similar to the above although occasionally an "error -50" will occur.)
>
> On the server, I'm getting messages like:
>
> setdirowner: chown 16777216/-1 .AppleDouble/.Parent: Invalid argument
> setdirowner: chown -1/0 .AppleDouble/.Parent: Operation not Permitted
>
> I'm sure it's a permission or configuration problem, but nothing I try seems
> to change this behavior. What am I missing here?
>
> --
> Eric Hillman
> eric@dothegood.com
>
>
>

-- 

Daniel E. Lautenschleger University of Wisconsin R.M. Bock Laboratories Network Administrator and Computer Support dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu



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