I have a machine at work where I run RH9. I have a laptop at home where I run Debian testing/unstable.
I use a portable usb hardrive to transfer files from my laptop to my work machine. The problem is, though I have the same username on both machines, whenever I copy files to the usb hardrive (which is formatted ext2) from debian and try to copy them on my RH machine, I get an error saying cannot read the file -- no permission or something similar. When I do an ls -l the ownership of the files is shown as user and group spavri when I access the usb hdd from debian but the same is shown as belonging to user and group 1000 when I access the ubs hdd from RH. I can guess that this has something to do with the group and user numbering differing between RH and Debian, but how do I avoid this ? It's basically nuisance value. What I do at present is chown -R and then do the cp. Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K R Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
