Subject: Re: Error type -50 + "Failed to open .../.passwd"
From: Marc J. Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 14:09:41 EDT
Okay... does this mean that users have to have permission to write to the
MacOS desktop in order to write a file to the server of an unknown type? (I
don't want that...)
----- Original Message -----
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:21:56 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>
> To: Rich Winkel <rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu>
> Subject: Re: Error type -50 while copying files to netatalk server
(4.1b2+2.13)
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Rich Winkel wrote:
>
> > I can see that the file gets copied sucessfully, in fact
> > if I ignore the error prompt, go to another mac and open the folder
> > I can copy or run the file with no problem, but once I answer
> > "stop" or "continue" in the error dialog box, the file is deleted.
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Permissions problem. Here is how I fixed it.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This error can occur when you are trying to copy a file from a Mac to a
> netatalk share. The reason for the error is that afpd wants to create an
> icon for the file type in the top level .AppleDesktop directory. If this
> direcotry is not writeable by the user, you get this error. What made it
> hard for me to trouble shoot was that the error doesn't occur all of the
> time. If the icon already exists, then of course you don't get the error.
>
> The easiest thing to do (yes you can do all kinds of fancy thinks with
> "set gid" but this is easy) is:
>
> su
> cd .AppleDesktop
> mkdir a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
> mkdir A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
> chmod 777 *
>
> Tim
>
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