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Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group
On 03/03/2010 00:34, Wes Barris wrote:
> My W: drive is a mapped network drive. However, it is mapped to a
> share coming from the same physical computer. This drive contains
> all of my data including a folder that I wish to use as my home
> directory (W: is mapped to //mycomputer/share/home).
Just to check the obvious: is it mapped with the default (i.e., read-only!)
permissions, or did you open it up?
> The contents of this drive was copied from my previous computer
> on which I used the same username.
Argh. Ouch. That's probably part of the problem. Using the same username
on a different computer does *not* give your user account the same identity,
when we're talking about local machine accounts rather than domain/workgroup
accounts.
How *exactly* did you copy "the contents of this drive" across?
cheers,
DaveK
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