Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 06:41:16 -0500 From: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> To: FreeBSD FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Btsync on FreeeBSD Message-ID: <BLU436-SMTP1615497D43CF836C2946FBC80050@phx.gbl>
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I am having a problem that I just cannot seem to work around, I have "btsync-2.2.6" installed on a FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-p7 machine. I am using it to primarily link files from a Windows 10 PC. I am using the commercial version on the Windows PC. The Windows part works fine. It is when I place the link into the "manual connection" box on the FreeBSD. The link must be copied and manually inserted. The simple clinking on of the link that works fine on a Windows machine fails on FreeBSD. The real problem is that I now receive an error that "btsync" does not have permission to write to that folder. I have changed the folder locations to my home directory. I finally got around that problem by changing the OWNER/GROUP to btsync as the owner leaving myself as the group. Now, btsync will sync with the Windows machine. This does not solve all of my problems though. I now cannot save, copy or move any files to this "btsync" directory unless I do so as the superuser. I even tried changing the directory permissions to "0777". Now, I can write to the directory; however, "btsync" will not sync those files to the Windows machine. Apparently because the owner of the file is not "btsync". Also, I am forced to manually change the permissions of any sub-directories that "btsync" creates. A real PIA in several instances. I am at a loss here as how to make this work. I was thinking that perhaps "acls" would be the an-swer, but I do not know how to use them and specifically, how to use them on only one directory and any sub-directories. If anyone has experience with "btsync", I would love hearing about your experience. -- Carmel
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