Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] SUMMARY: Error -50
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Mon Dec 06 1999 - 16:49:05 EST
> From: Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> This error can occur when you are trying to copy a file from a Mac to a
> netatalk share. The reason for the error is that afpd wants to create an
> icon for the file type in the top level .AppleDesktop directory. If this
> direcotry is not writeable by the user, you get this error. What made it
> hard for me to trouble shoot was that the error doesn't occur all of the
> time. If the icon already exists, then of course you don't get the error.
Arguably, this error can just not be returned. There are cases like
this, for instance when a directory is world writable, but the user is
not in the directory's group, that "chown" errors ought to be dropped.
This error is probably in the same class.
:wes
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