Subject: Re: -50 errors when copying folders?
From: John Arends (john@chicago.avenew.com)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 20:20:31 EDT
> I've been lurking for a while, and have finally gotten around to giving
> netatalk a try. I've got asun2.1.4-39_test installed on a RedHat 6.2
> system. My volume is has the owner and group set to my test user's, and
> it's currently chmod 777 with the setgid bit on.
>
> The server is running afpd only - all TCP, no Appletalk.
>
> I'm using a B&W G3 running OS 9.0.4 as a client, and am trying to copy
> files to the server. Copying large files is no problem, but when I try to
> copy a complex folder (containing files, subfolders with files etc.) I get
> the following error:
>
> The item "some file name that's a couple of folders deep" cannot be
> written, because an error of type -50 occurred. Do you want to continue?
>
> Any idea what's causing this? Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -David
>
>
The user you are logged in as probably does not have permission to write to
.AppleDouble and you are trying to copy a file with a resource fork to the
server. (Applications, etc)
Try checking that and it should solve your problem.
-----
John Arends
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