On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:18:29 PM Jon Elson did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos (this > > box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On ubuntu, gene > > is also the first user 1000, so when user 500 tries to copy a file to > > /home/user=1000 on ubuntu, its 100% no permissions. > > > > Now if the copy utilities used the username, and it was the same $name > > on both machines, there is no clash. > > > > Cheers, Gene > > You should be able to create an alternate user (like gene2) and then > create a group that allows > access to both the 500 and 1000 users. I may have missed the start of > this thread, I'm guessing > this is a problem with a NFS file system? Seems like that would be the > only time such > cross-system IDs would matter. > I have the *buntu box mounted at /mnt/shop, a samba share I believe.
>From mounts output: //shop.coyote.den/shop-slash on /mnt/shop type cifs (rw,mand) What I would like to be able to do, and which requires scp or sftp to do, is fire up mc, send one pane to the *buntu box, the other to wherever I have downloaded an emc useful file to here on this box, and just hit an F5 to copy or an F6 to move it. I fail to see why such a simple operation, where I am the user gene on both machines, has to be such a %$#@()&^ pain in the ass. Why can't there be an option in these file management utility's to tell them, not to use the user number for the perms checking, but the user name instead? All this bs would disappear in a puff of invisible smoke instead of all the blue smoke I generate because it takes me 10 minutes to reread the manpages several times, and likely 20 tries to get the proper command line syntax constructed from the totally obtuse man pages of scp and sftp. Could this be such a matter as "security=user" in the cifs.conf files on both machines? On checking, that option is set on this box. And now is set on shop.coyote.den too, it was share before on that machine. Humm, mc can now copy stuff, but "fails to chown" the file. So as I have an ssh session going as gene, go check, and gene:gene owns everything I copied there with this copy session. So, now I have a way to do it without screwing around till my blood pressure is up 40 points. Next I need to scan back through this list and find some code that was uploaded 2 or 3 weeks ago that I need on that machine. As for NFS, I have spent many hours trying to configure NFS, but the failure rate is 100% forever. I gave up on it when, on another mailing list I was sent config files guaranteed to work, but never did. I gave up on it 3 or 4 installs back and haven't tried since. That may also be due to the differences in usernum base systems for all I know. The error messages are obtuse and rarely make sense to those who claim to know something about NFS. Can't get sockets and such. I'd better git-r-done for the night Jon, thanks for listening. > Jon Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident", stardate 5027.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
