Subject: Re : [netatalk-admins] Network Trash Folder
From: Yann Bizeul (yann@collet.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 11 1999 - 06:27:29 EST
No problems with network trash folder
U must set recursively the group sticky bit with write permission, and that
works fine... for me !
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>De : Michael Han <mikehan@best.com>
>À : Rick Zeman <rzeman@his.com>
>Cc : "netatalk" <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
>Objet : Re: [netatalk-admins] Network Trash Folder
>Date : Jeu mars 1999 6:41
>
> Previously...
>>Hmm, I have the opposite problem. Network Trash won't work. Anything
>>placed in the Mac's trash has to be deleted immediately. I see that
>>there is a Network Trash Folder in my home directory (with 707 perms, me
>>user and group) with multiple Trash Cans in it--with all of the files
>>that I thought had been trashed.
>
> Hrmm, it's been a while since this was fully hashed out, but I seem to
> recall that disabled byte-locking is the spoilsport. There's a "Trash
> Can Usage Map" (?) or somesuch hiding in the "Network Trash Folder"
> and it tracks what AFP user is using what "Trash Can #N" subfolder for
> trash. By not being able to byte-lock this file, only the first Trash
> user gets a normal Trash and subsequent users are Trash-less.
>
> There's also an unrelated problem, I believe, with the default mode
> (707) the Mac creates the "Network Trash Folder" with, and that it
> attempts to set the Group to "none", which is GID 0 in AFP...
> Naturally, GID 0 isn't unowned on Unix filesystems. Hence a "Network
> Trash Folder", when created by an AFP client, tends to be mode 707,
> owned by that user, group owned by the user's gid. This can be a
> problem if all your users are in the same group, as would be the
> case in a RedHat install (all in "users"), since mode 707 group users
> is locked out for anyone in the users group...
>
> The permissions/gid problem you can finesse. Or at least you can hack
> around it. The other problem's trickier. There's a gruesome hack
> reported here (was it Bob at h-e.com? sorry, forget your surname) that
> fixes the other problem. In it, you pre-create "Trash Can #N"
> subfolders, mode 700, one per user owned by that user... Ick. But it
> does work. Or did about 10 months ago when I first saw this problem
> reported.
>
> Anyone know if my info's dated? I haven't been keeping up with the
> netatalk sources for a couple months, so I don't know what's been
> happening, unless it's been in one of asun's announcements.
> --
> mikehan@best.com
> I will not pledge allegiance to Bart
> - The collected wisdom of Bart Simpson
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