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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:39:57 -0500
From:      Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
To:        Marius <marius@mail.communityconnect.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: File system access across multiple platforms
Message-ID:  <01012318395701.21856@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101231700480.51327-100000@utterlux.hq.communitconnect.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101231700480.51327-100000@utterlux.hq.communitconnect.com>

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Well it still seems that there are problems with the permissions and 
ownership.  I do not know how to fix that.  It could be simple or as 
complicated as a bug in netatalk and the way it works with mount_msdos. 
If you have enough disk space, copy the files using FreeBSD to the 
users home directory that they connect into using netatalk.  Once they 
are in that directory as ffs files, the macuser will certainly be able 
to do whatever with them they need to.  Just make sure they are chown'd 
to the user first.  Although, guess the reason you're asking is that 
you don't have the disk space or it isn't feasible to do the copy, and 
if so then I haven't been helpful at all.  In that case, sorry,

						Tim



On Tuesday January 23, 2001 17:51, Marius wrote:
> O.K.
>
> 	I have gotten in a bit deep here.  What I essentailly want to
> do is allow a Mac (OS 9) user to access a legacy MS-DOS file system
> to manipulate some files.
> 	I am most of the way there.  I have the old msdos hard
> drive in a FreeBSD 3.5-Stable box, the filesystem correctly mounts at
> boot time, and the Mac user can see the files system via
> netatalk.  The old hard drive has been mounted on
> /mnt/dosc, and the entire file system is owned by the macuser.
> 	The problem is, though the macuser can login to the account via
> netatalk, and browse the filesystem in question, s/he can't copy any
> of the files to the local Apple hard drive, or manipulate any of the
> files.  The Mac system complains that any given file "is already in
> use" and thus can't be manipulated.  Anybody run into this before? 
> Is there something I can do on the FreeBSD side to rectify things?
> The macuser can copy/modify things normaly in his/her home
> directory, which has the same permissions as the mounted file system.
>  The UFS behaves as expected.  Likewise I have no problems on the
> FreeBSD machine copying or moving things around, as the macuser.
>
>
> Important stats: (Just in case it matters)
> uname -a
> FreeBSD milux.ny.home 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE #7: Sun Jan  7
> 12:40:17 EST 2001     marius@milux.ny.home:/usr/src/sys/compile/MILUX
> i386
>
> netatalk-1.4b2+asun-2.1.3
>
> ls -ld /mnt/dosc
> drwxr-xr-x  1 macuser  macuser  16384 Jan  1  1980 /mnt/dosc
>
> ls -ld /home/macuser
> drwxr-xr-x  6 macuser  macuser  512 Jan 16 18:32 /home/macuser
>
>
>
>
> -Marius M. Rex
>
>
>
>
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