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Subject:    [Netatalk-admins] Fwd:  Netatalk/Users on Ubuntu
From:       "Lars O. Grobe" <grobe () gmx ! net>
Date:       2012-04-02 17:27:37
Message-ID: 5433A131-9BC0-41E7-9F3C-559186ECD60D () gmx ! net
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> Hi Keith!
> 
> My guess is that you are experiencing problems due to insufficient file system \
> permissions. 
> Your home directories are probably owned by the users that access them, so \
> /home/joenoob would be owned by user joenoob on the file system level. 
> Your /media/raid01 (I do not really like the mount point... and naming could be \
> more descriptive) is supposed to be a shared directory on file system level. So \
> first make sure that any Linux user logged into your system (locally, not by \
> netatalk) has sufficient permissions. Probably this requires using group \
> permissions. If it was my machine, I'd have the mount point as /server/staff (if \
> this is to be a common volume for staff), owned by root:staff. Now I'd just add all \
> staff users to the Linux group staff. To test, I'd have two users of that group log \
> in locally, and create, edit, delete some files in that directory. Now you could \
> exclude unix file system permissions as error source. 
> Remember that your settings in AppleVolumes.default don't mean anything if file \
> system permissions don't work. That is the nice thing in ix-world, proper server \
> processes cannot override what is configured at (file) system level. 
> Cheers, Lars.
> --
> Dipl.-Ing. Architect Lars O. Grobe
> 
> On Apr 2, 2012, at 17:53, Keith Wilson <keith.wilson@giraffedog.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I'm looking into NIS now. Not sure if it'll do what I need as I'm a noob!
> > 
> > Anyway I've re-deployed my RAID (I made it RAID5 across four discs) so sorry for \
> > the delay in getting back to you. 
> > I was hoping the issue would go away when I re-created the mount points, but it's \
> > still there. 
> > My issue is when I login remotely to the AFP server as the local ubuntu user I \
> > see the raid share and the home dir. When I login as another user I just see the \
> > home share and no raid share. 
> > The raid share is set to mount in the /media folder as raid01 and it's owned by \
> > ubuntuadminuser:ubuntuadminuser. Could that be causing the issue? 
> > My AppleVolumes.default is as follows:
> > 
> > # By default all users have access to their home directories.
> > ~/                      "Home Directory"
> > /media/raid01/ raid01 allow:ubuntuadminuser,ANOTHERUSERACCT options:usedots,upriv \
> >  
> > Where can I check logs for access perms etc for this?
> > 
> > Keith

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