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Re: ncpfs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Layes)
Thu Mar 14 20:47:31 1996
From: Jonathan Layes <layes@loran.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:55:21 -0500
To: "Arthur S. Petrossian" <arthur@sci.am>,
Thayne Harbaugh <thayne@lardav.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>> Unfortunately ncpmount has shortcomings: It doesn't translat novell
>> file permissions to UNIX file permissions . . .
>
>Have you experienced the same as below or you have your Novell's volume
>fully writable already?
>
>I have the same problem. I (ncp)mount Netware's volume which is writable
>for me and set ALL permissions, but can't create any FILE on it from my
>linux box where it is mounted (It seems to beheave like read-only).
>But I can create a directory, but can't delete it then!
We experienced that problem with Novell 4.1 until about kernel 1.3.70 or
so (I can't remember exactly what version). Lately, we haven't had
any problems writing to Novell volumes for directories that have both
read and write permissions. However, we experience the same behaviour
as you for directories that are write only (ie. things like dropboxes,
etc.) so unfortunately we can't use Linux (yet!) for depositing files
into users' dropboxes.
jonathan
