<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<br>
<br>
On 07/22/2009 01:02 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:200907222106.37615.cannewilson@googlemail.com"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Wednesday 22 Jul 2009 17:06:12 Bruce MacArthur wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I have followed your directions with ease -- but it has not worked! In
spite of the change of permissions to 755, the search utility still
shows it to be "Read-Only"! I think that this is related to a VERY
faulty installation; it is NOT simply an openSUSE problem.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
Maybe I missed it, but did you check whether you have the same UID on both
installations? Not all distros number UIDs the same way. If you are 501 on
one system and 1000 on the other you will not be allowed to read files from
both.
Anne
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
Hi Bruce, I must have missed the exchange prior to this.<br>
As I had stated earlier, I had run into the same situation<br>
and as Anne suspects, I did have 2 different uid's on the<br>
2 systems - so when I was logged in on system A as user<br>
jd, and had mounted system B's home partition, I was <br>
unable to access it, and vice versa.<br>
<br>
I had to login as root on the console of system B, and I<br>
used vipw to change my uid to be same as on system A.<br>
The file /etc/group also had to be changed so that the<br>
group number of the groups name jd had to change to <br>
match what I had on system A.<br>
<br>
Then I chown'ed my home dir on system B like this<br>
cd /home<br>
chown -R jd.jd jd<br>
<br>
After that all went well.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Joe<br>
</body>
</html>