[beverson]

So I decided to do a complete wipe of my iBook's hard drive before installing Panther (it had been a while). Everything got backed up, then I installed, created my user, booted fine, then shut down and rebooted into target disk mode again (also used this for backing up to my iMac). I copied all of my folders from the old home folder into the new one, but did not change or replace the new home folder itself. Booted back up fine, but through the course of trying out the new Network part of the places sidebar in the Finder, I discovered that permissions on that same home folder (the iBook's) are screwy. When I authenticate as me (as opposed to guest), I can access my home folder when it's its own volume. But when I go through /Users/, I get the folder with the do-not-enter sign on it and no access. If I check permissions on that folder, it says it's owned by system and no one has access to it (even owner). This disagrees with what the iBook itself says, which states the proper owner for that folder (the one whose namesake is the account). The permissions on the remotely mounted home folder, even though I can get into it, are the same (owner, system, no access).

Is this the way it's supposed to be? Before posting this, I tried creating an account on my roommate's PowerBook, and when I log in remotely using that account the same thing happens. This seems unintuitive to me, but perhaps it's so that you use the home folder volume rather than going through /Users. But why would that matter? Why not both? Before, when you mounted volumes on the desktop, you could have both the root and your home folder from another machine mounted at the same time and still get to the home folder through the remote machine's /Users/.

Additionally, I seem to keep bumping my head into the new Network sidebar item. In theory, I think it's a big improvement over the Chooser-style Connect to Server business. But, it's not immediately clear how you can unmount a volume (there's an Eject option in the contextual menu, but no other way that I can see), there's no apparent way to tell the Keychain to save your password for that system, and my iBook has taken to "connecting" to my iMac automatically. I say "connecting" because the alias goes from pale to full color, but nothing shows up to the right of it in column view.

Weird all around.

[beverson]

Originally posted by beverson:
... and my iBook has taken to "connecting" to my iMac automatically. I say "connecting" because the alias goes from pale to full color, but nothing shows up to the right of it in column view.

So after restart this went away, though it now seems to be happening to my other roommate's iBook. I just doesn't want to un-Authenticate (it won't eject, and in the previous example with my iMac, if I turned off sharing, the icon would disappear, but if sharing was turned back on, the icon would reappear, full color, same problem).

This problem appears to be immune to logout/in.

[beverson]

...AND, the iMac as the server (I think -- or maybe iBook as client) has cached (?) old local volumes that were once mounted but no longer are. Specifically, I had three disk images mounted on the iMac, and of course when logged in as an admin you get to see those as remote volumes. One time when I logged in from the iBook, this was the case. Now, those ghost volumes are still showing up, but as folders and not the boxed globe alias icon. They are empty. And of course no longer mounted on the iMac/server.

Ugh. Other than this Panther has been great, though. Exposé rocks.