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mdcarter1 · Dec 17, 2002, 06:48 PM

I just started a new job and I am trying to get my new 1Ghz TiBook working on the network there. So I got the WEP password, DHCP address, router address, etc. and all seems to work fine -- I can check e-mail, surf web etc.

At this office there is a linux box with an account on it for me to use for VNC. However I want to work out of the home directory on that account (it's backed up) so on my Laptop (Jaguar installed) I go to
"connect to servers" and I can see the linux machine. I select it, put in my linux accounts name/password and then i am asked what i want to mount and I pick "home". It mounts it no problem.

So here is my problem, I dont have write permissions on anything in the home directory. One thing i did notice was that if i do an ls -l anywhere in the mount my OS X username and wheel group are shown as the owners. I dont know if this is related. Anybody have any suggestions on why the file permissions are all weird? Thanks.

ghporter · Dec 17, 2002, 08:14 PM

If the administrator of the Linux box intended for you to use the home directory you're trying to connect to, you should have full rights to it. This leads me to believe that somehow you've gotten connected with someone else's home directory. It's time to go ask the sysadmin for that box what's going on.

mdcarter1 · Dec 17, 2002, 09:54 PM

Well its weird because when os x asks me what shares i want to mount I get a list like:

/tmp
/home
/public-blah

So i pick /home and basically i end up with all of the home dirs. but you would think that since i am connected with my linux user/pass i would get permission on my /home/mdcarter1 directory. i think its kind of weird that all of the permissions "show" that i am the owner of every file and dir, it has to be part of the problem, because obviously i am not. so you know, we made my home dir 777 and it made no difference. its kind of a 5 man operation there so there really is no sysadmin, we are just kind of doing it ourselves if you know what i mean.

ghporter · Dec 18, 2002, 07:38 AM

Get whoever has admin rights to that machine to review how permissions are set on it; it could be that the particular distribution of Linux you're using defaults differently, or works in the reverse (needs active enabling rather than active disabling) of what's expected.