[Klug-general] Permissions problem

[Nathan Friend]

Mike what are the permissions on the source machine for one of the files
that shows up red in grsync?

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Michael E. Rentell <
michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:

>  On 15/12/11 11:41, Mike Evans wrote:
>
> Sorry to come to this late.
>
> If you are using NFS to mount the drive then it will work provided your
> user ID numbers are the same on each machine as that's what NFS uses.
> (Hopelessly insecure but hey they assume that you know what you're doing
> and can secure your network properly.)  However there is an exception to
> this:  root is protected and the default behaviour is to do what's called
> 'rootsquash' - which stops root on one machine being root on another.
> There is some setting you can change to open that hole too if you really
> need to.
>
> MikeE
>
>  I suspect that I am using samba because the cli line I use to connect is:
>
> mount -t cifs //192.168.2.4/Backups /mnt/backups -o
> username=mick,password=mick
>
> That connects no problem when using sudo from the cli. I can read all the
> files there and copy them back individually to my main machine. But if I
> try to copy to it, I normally use nautilus, stuff from the main machine to
> the mounted directory it is forbidden.
>
> When I sudo grsync (I find rsync too intimidating with all those baffling
> parameters) it whips through all the files to send and about a quarter of
> them are shown in red with permission denied error 13. All the rest show up
> in black and you would think they are going over OK. But when I check on
> the backup machine none have been updated - even if I tell nautilus to
> refresh the list just in case it's missed something.
>
> The backup machine uses PCLinuxOS so I can use its very useful admin tools
> to check the samba shares and the backup file has the password for mick set
> and its read/write permissions set. When I cli ls -l that backup directory
> all the directories are drwxrwxrwx and all the files in them are rwxrwxrwx.
>
> So I have no backup facility now.
>
> I've looked at other backup solutions but they all seem to produce an
> archive file which can only be restored in full. I need a backup from which
> I can retrieve a single file if needed.
>
> Still baffled - sorry folks. No doubt I'm still a bear of very little
> brain. But I do appreciate all the suggestions I've received over the past
> 24 hours. Everyone seems to be bending their minds to my problem. No doubt
> it is a trivial thing, but it's beyond my minimal capabilities at the
> moment.
> MikeR
>
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