Been playing with my file base and for some reason I can't download any files from it. I am running in Debian Linux, I have the path mounted on bootup and can access the files via file explorer, but for some reason nothing will download. I have the file path in Mystic set to /media/bbs_files/filedirectory/ could this possibly be a permissions issue?? I know I am not giving a lot of info here any other info needed just ask..

AL

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Just a quick add on did a ls -l and it shows the owner as root, that is not correct is it??

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On 17 Sep 2023, Bucko said the following...

Just a quick add on did a ls -l and it shows the owner as root, that is not correct is it??

do you run the bbs as root?

file permissioms are versatile so whoever owns stuff might not matter depending on the permissions.. e.g

usr grp oth

rwx --- --- root root = root only no matter what
rwx --- --- a123 users = a123 user only ..
rwx r-x --- a123 users = a123 and all people in 'users' can read, run,
if it's a folder, can enter, no write for users rwx rwx rwx root root = free for all


that said the default for linux for new files is (iirc):

rwx r-x r-x .. etc so owner can do everything and everyone can read and use the files but not delete or modify them or add files (for permissions on folders). meaning mystic shouldn't have a problem reading them by default.

does the 'view file' function work for text files? that would also indicate mystic can read them and it might be an xfer error

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On 18 Sep 2023, fusion said the following...

On 17 Sep 2023, Bucko said the following...

Just a quick add on did a ls -l and it shows the owner as root, that not correct is it??

do you run the bbs as root?

file permissioms are versatile so whoever owns stuff might not matter depending on the permissions.. e.g

usr grp oth

Thanks Fusion,, got it figured out, it was the way it was mounted. I added in a uid=name,gid=name and now it works...

Thanks for the help and info...

Al

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
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Been playing with my file base and for some reason I can't download any files from it. I am running in Debian Linux, I have the path mounted on bootup and can access the files via file explorer, but for some reason nothing will download. I have the file path in Mystic set to /media/bbs_files/filedirectory/ could this possibly be a permissions issue?? I know I am not giving a lot of info here any other info needed just ask..

Does the download start, but just seem to fail??

I've come across that for two reasons on nix; long filenames, or weird characters... filenames something like:
"This is a filename with!!s & other --+weird charz//.zip"

or, because nix permissions weren't set correctly and Mystic/the user you run it as didn't actually have permission to the file yer trying to download.

??



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On 18 Sep 2023, paulie420 said the following...

Been playing with my file base and for some reason I can't download a

Does the download start, but just seem to fail??

I've come across that for two reasons on nix; long filenames, or weird characters... filenames something like:
"This is a filename with!!s & other --+weird charz//.zip"

or, because nix permissions weren't set correctly and Mystic/the user
you run it as didn't actually have permission to the file yer trying to download.

It was permissions. When I changed over to a new NAS set up, I automounted the shared folder, and I thought it was fine, but in reality it was not as the permissions were set to root. Once I added a uid= and a gid= to the mount line in fstab it gave up root and now it works fine.. :) Had 3 months of tic files in my bad folder, thankfully I was able to toss all of them..

AL

... What was the best thing before sliced bread?

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It was permissions. When I changed over to a new NAS set up, I
automounted the shared folder, and I thought it was fine, but in reality it was not as the permissions were set to root. Once I added a uid= and
a gid= to the mount line in fstab it gave up root and now it works
fine.. :) Had 3 months of tic files in my bad folder, thankfully I was able to toss all of them..

I know - I've done it way too many times. :P
Glad you got it ironed... its always something.



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