Communicator 4.5 & Samba 2.0.0
Jim Morris
Jim at Morris.net
Fri Feb 5 05:04:41 GMT 1999
Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <jcastro at pcshop.com.br> wrote:
>
> How's Netscape configured? Did you map the Samba share to a drive letter
> or are you using the UNC (\\Server\Sharename\path) notation. I've found
> that Netscape does not like UNCs very much.
Its a mapped drive. It's the Win95 "D:" on that Linux machine at the
times its booted to Win95, and its mapped as D: to the remote PC.
> And since you mounted a vfat partition, do a "ls -ld /dosd /dosd/*" so
> we can see what the permissions are.
Well, I can do that, but I don't think that is really the issue, since
everything works perfectly well with Samba 1.9.18p10 and earlier. Plus,
I have also tried doing things like setting myself as an "admin" user on
the share, using the "admin users=" directive on that share definition.
No dice. Since admin rights under Samba gives the admin user root
priveledges on the share, I can't see permissions as an issue.
Nevertheless, here goes:
[jim at vortex jim]$ ls -ld /dosd /dosd/*
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 /dosd
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Jan 14 22:48 /dosd/backup
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 3 00:00 /dosd/barcode
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Jan 14 05:08 /dosd/download
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 15 14:15 /dosd/htplink
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Feb 4 17:21 /dosd/mail
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jan 10 01:13 /dosd/mailconv
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Feb 4 22:47 /dosd/news
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 294912 Jul 20 1997 /dosd/recycled
drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 4096 Jan 10 14:58 /dosd/vcs
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Feb 1 22:48 /dosd/win98
The mail is all in the directory "/dosd/mail", contents of which are:
[jim at vortex jim]$ ls -ld /dosd/mail/*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3304 Jan 10 14:31 /dosd/mail/Drafts
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5064 Feb 4 14:05
/dosd/mail/Drafts.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3673876 Feb 4 09:56 /dosd/mail/Humour
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 291432 Feb 4 14:05
/dosd/mail/Humour.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 687047 Feb 4 17:34 /dosd/mail/Inbox
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9944 Feb 4 17:34
/dosd/mail/Inbox.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43706 Aug 20 21:18 /dosd/mail/Info
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Feb 3 22:00
/dosd/mail/Info.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 509755 Feb 2 21:02
/dosd/mail/Inspirational
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51296 Feb 4 14:05
/dosd/mail/Inspirational.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1648671 Jun 23 1998
/dosd/mail/Motorola Mail
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54928 Feb 3 22:05
/dosd/mail/Motorola Mail.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Nov 4 11:57 /dosd/mail/Outbox
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Feb 4 14:05
/dosd/mail/Outbox.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23597 Jun 9 1998
/dosd/mail/Samples
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Feb 3 21:39
/dosd/mail/Samples.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 478011 Feb 3 07:25 /dosd/mail/Saved
Msgs
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 18:54 /dosd/mail/Saved
Msgs.sbd
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Feb 3 21:47 /dosd/mail/Saved
Msgs.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 679148 Feb 4 17:04 /dosd/mail/Sent
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 3 21:39
/dosd/mail/Sent.sbd
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 901140 Jan 31 22:20
/dosd/mail/Special Saved
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5032 Nov 16 1997
/dosd/mail/Special Saved.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Feb 3 21:47
/dosd/mail/Special Saved.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 518059 Jan 22 19:54 /dosd/mail/Sunday
School
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Feb 3 21:39 /dosd/mail/Sunday
School.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10576 Feb 4 14:05
/dosd/mail/TKO.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 17 1998
/dosd/mail/Templates
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 659723 Feb 4 17:34 /dosd/mail/Trash
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 278528 Feb 4 17:34
/dosd/mail/Trash.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2392647 Feb 3 07:30
/dosd/mail/Vendors
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33592 Feb 4 15:44
/dosd/mail/Vendors.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42460 Feb 3 07:20
/dosd/mail/mailfilt.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4459956 Jul 9 1998 /dosd/mail/pei
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Feb 3 21:59
/dosd/mail/pei.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73 Feb 4 17:33
/dosd/mail/popstate.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2419745 Feb 1 14:27 /dosd/mail/rtc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Feb 3 21:59
/dosd/mail/rtc.snm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1706 Oct 9 08:25
/dosd/mail/rules.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 87659 Dec 30 22:36 /dosd/mail/tko
> Another info: experiment copying your profile directory to a Linux
> native partition, redefine your share and see if it works from there.
> It's not what you want, but it can give important clues.
I've thought of that, and might give it a whirl real quick. Stand by...
Okay, I'm back after about 15 minutes of testing. Guess what? You are
right. If I copy all those Netscape folders over to my home directory on
Linux, and connect that to the D: on the notebook PC, then Netscape
Communicator has no trouble reading its mail folders with Samba 2.0.0
running.
So it appears that for SOME reason, the mounted vfat partition is not
acting the same, permission-wise, under Samba 2.0.0 as 1.9.18p10. I'll
do some more debugging, and see what I can come up with....
Thanks for the pointer!
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