I have been trying to make this work for a little over 3 months now with
little success. The problem stems form the fact that afpd never run as
root and thus, can not make the appropriate owner/group changes to files. I
beg anyone to disagree with me.
Phil
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Dale Karsten wrote:
> Environment:
> netatalk-1.4b2, netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 and pre-asun2.1.4-37b
> Powerbook G3 with MacOS 8.6
>
> Description:
> I have been trying to set up drop folders (write only access) and it doesn't
> seem to work with netatalk-1.4b2, netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 or pre-asun2.1.4-37b.
> In all cases I was using MacOS 8.6. When I try to move a file from the
> workstation to the drop folder, I get the usual warning about not having enough
> permission to see the files in the destination folder, but then I get another
> message with the following text: 'The item "blah" cannot be written, because it
> cannot be found. Do you want to continue?'. If I try to move a file on the
> netatalk volume to a folder set for write only access, I get this message
> instead: 'You cannot move "blah" to the folder "blahblah", because it cannot be
>found.'
>
> --
> Dale
>
