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03-17-2007

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Still cannot read files on debian

I'm confused as I cannot detect the pattern yet. The solution of putting "-o uid=siegfried" did solve the problem on one distribution and I thought I had the problem solved. I think I was able to use it on ubuntu to burn a CD using nautilus.

But now I am on debian etch and I tried that trick again with

mount ... -o uid=siegfried,username=siegfried

and emacs comes back and says the file is not readable. So then I have to switch to my xterm running in root and copy the file from the samba share to a local copy where I can edit it in emacs.

So what else do I have to do so emacs can read and write files on the samba share? Root can do it but the siegfried account cannot. The siegfried account can see the file names and traverse the directories, however. That is progress!
Thanks,
Siegfried

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what-patch

WHAT-PATCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

       what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -v     Enable verbose mode.  This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
	      details about the patch system if available.

AUTHORS

       what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and  Daniel  Hahler  <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
       among others.  This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

SEE ALSO

       The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

       cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)

DEBIAN
								 Debian Utilities						     WHAT-PATCH(1)