Re: ncpfs write errors in gnome-vfs2 applications

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:26 -0500, Jay Camp wrote:
> I'm having some troubles, with what I believe stems from gnome-vfs, on
> NCPFS (Netware) network mounted shares.  non-gnomevfs applications can
> write just fine to a users mounted home (OpenOffice, Firefox, Inkscape,
> etc. etc.) but when an application like gedit tries to write to a file,
> they get an error message like "can not write to file."  The same
> happens with all other gnome-vfs2 based applications.
> 
> Any ideas on what may be happening, or tips on tracking down the
> problem?  I thought about running an strace when using my account (which
> for whatever reason works) and then comparing it with a user's whose
> doesn't.  I'm not experienced in debugging so I'm not sure how fruitful
> this would be.
> 
> Any suggestions on where the culprit might be, or on debugging it?

Try stracing gnomevfs-copy on the two accounts and compare them.

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