> From:    Tim Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> This error can occur when you are trying to copy a file from a Mac to a
> netatalk share. The reason for the error is that afpd wants to create an
> icon for the file type in the top level .AppleDesktop directory. If this
> direcotry is not writeable by the user, you get this error. What made it
> hard for me to trouble shoot was that the error doesn't occur all of the
> time. If the icon already exists, then of course you don't get the error.

Arguably, this error can just not be returned.  There are cases like
this, for instance when a directory is world writable, but the user is
not in the directory's group, that "chown" errors ought to be dropped.
This error is probably in the same class.

:wes

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