Mac OSX issue

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » 15 Oct 2007, 12:40

ian wrote:Tor,

a stupid question from a Linux novice; how do I become root?

Cheers, Ian.

log into shell and type 'su root' and pwd will be 'excito'

ian · Post by **ian** » 15 Oct 2007, 13:45

GaryL,
thanks for the help.

Tor,

it says drwx------ 3 [username] users 4096 Sep 30 11:06 /home/[username]/private

Cheers, Ian.

val1984 · Post by **val1984** » 16 Oct 2007, 09:41

ian wrote:So far, nothing I have tried gives my wife full read/write access to her private folder using the Finder.

As I have already written, it is impossible with the Finder.

Valentin

ian · Post by **ian** » 16 Oct 2007, 10:03

You said:

The FTP client included in the Mac OS X Finder is read only so it is not possible to upload files to a FTP server using it. You'll have to keep using a real FTP client or switch to Samba as Tor suggested.
If it's a MacBook, then, it's Mac OS X 10.4.x.

You now say

As I have already written, it is impossible with the Finder.

I must admit, I'm not quite sure what you think is not possible with the Finder; FTP or Samba access. The fact is, nothing works apart from FTPing using (Captain) FTP.

Ian.

val1984 · Post by **val1984** » 16 Oct 2007, 13:17

ian wrote:I must admit, I'm not quite sure what you think is not possible with the Finder; FTP or Samba access. The fact is, nothing works apart from FTPing using (Captain) FTP.

OK

What is impossible with the Finder is uploading to a FTP. On the other hand, Samba uploading works

Post by **tor** » 17 Oct 2007, 04:58

Ian,

The permissions look fine. (As it should when you can access it via ftp)

This really starts to anoy me. Could you perhaps create another user on the Mac and Bubba and se if the problem persists or only in effect with your wifes account. I will try to get some time to set up our Mac testunit and see if i can reproduce this.

/Tor

ian · Post by **ian** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:22

Tor,
thanks for the help, and sorry to annoy you

I'll try that when I get home and let you know how I get on....

Ian.

ian · Post by **ian** » 01 Nov 2007, 11:02

I upgraded my wife's MacBook to Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5) yesterday, partly as a result of this thread: http://excito.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t ... c&start=15. Anyway, this solved the problem, and my wife now has complete access to the bubba, and her private folder in particular.

So it would appear that the problem was completely caused by Mac OSX 10.4 not handling Samba access very well...

Thanks for the help,
Ian.