Subject: Re: Can't write own home directory
From: Daniel E. Lautenschleger (dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 15:49:00 EDT
I had the same thing happen. It was incorrect permissions on the
.AppleDouble directory.
Daniel E. Lautenschleger
University of Wisconsin
R.M. Bock Laboratories
Network Administrator and Computer Support
dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu
608.262.3403
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Marc Miller wrote:
> I haven't seen this problem myself, but has anyone checked on the execute
> permission of the directory? I noticed when I was working on drop boxes
> before that MacOS can't write to a directory if you don't have +x set. I
> even wrote a little fix for that (lifted from the CAP code) which I will
> eventually post to SourceForge for netatalk 1.5.
>
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Richard Zach wrote:
>
> > Richard Zach wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble configuring afp on my Linux machine. After mounting
> > > the Linux volume, I see my home directory fine, and I can read files,
> > > but I can't write anything (get an error -23).
> >
> > I found quite a number of people are having this problem. Here are a
> > few links to the linux-atalk list, where the same problem is described.
> > See
> >
> > http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9705B&L=linux-atalk&P=R835&m=2329
> > http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9709B&L=linux-atalk&P=R445&m=2329
> > http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9807B&L=linux-atalk&P=R729&m=4228
> > http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9903A&L=linux-atalk&P=R351&m=5371
> >
> > and replies to these. Noone seems to have a solution. (The only
> > suggested solution in these threads was to upgrade to MacOS 7.5.5, which
> > is waht I'm running).
> >
> > The symptoms again, compiled from my own experiences and the above
> > threads:
> >
> > When copying a file from the Mac to the atalk server by drag-and-drop,
> > you get an Error -23. You get no such error when:
> >
> > - You save a file to the shared volume from an application.
> > - You copy the file, and a file with the same name already exists on the
> > shared volume.
> > - You copy a folder (containing the file) to the shared volume.
> >
> > Seems to happen with all kinds of Linux distributions, netatalk
> > versions, MacOS versions (maybe only before MacOS 8), OpenTransport or
> > MacTCP.
> >
>
> ============================================================
> /\/\arc ._|. /\/\iller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
> Computer Room Consultant
> Information Technology/Lab Management
> ============================================================
> I can be contacted through the Communication Center link from
> http://www.mother.com/~mjmiller/
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Wed Jan 17 2001 - 14:31:48 EST