Windows 7 pro and ultimate can mount NFS shares as well if that might work
better.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Kelly Slaugh <kelly at visionary.com> wrote:
> "BTW I'm curious why running this command is necessary. Why not fix the
> software creating files under the wrong user?" Nicoli
>
> The reason for this command is because we have two different OS's running
> in the office. OS X and Windows, Adobe Photoshop creates an issue with
> Permissions when a Mac user creates a file. Only Mac users can open the
> file from the server and modify and save changes. If a Windows user
> creates an image file the Mac users cannot save any modifications to that
> file directly to the server. The Mac users have to copy the file to their
> desktop, modify, save, and then delete the old file because they don't have
> write permissions to replace the existing file. The same is for PC users
> when a file is created by a Mac user.
>
> This is a known issue with Adobe and their work around doesn't work
> because it's PC specific not a Global fix on the server. I attempted the
> work around on the Mac, (Adobe says it's because of Samba) however nothing
> has changed. The Work around didn't work. The next attempted fix is this
> solution. Running a cron job nightly to find all of the files that the Mac
> user (userA) has created and chown those files to a PC user (UserB). The
> Mac user won't need access to these files again after they are created
> however PC users do, so this fix would be right for our environment. And
> if the Mac user does need access, then they have to copy the file to their
> desktop and create a new one. Which the nightly cron job will take care of
> the permissions.
>
> I've also thought of changing the permissions inside of fstab to try and
> force the gid permissions. This failed as well because it's not a server
> problem. The Problem is with the Mac's & Adobe. The gid=grpA,mode=664
> didn't work.
>
> I'm up for ideas if someone has a better solution.
>
> Thank you for the read and I appreciate all the help.
>
> Kelly L. Slaugh // Systems Administrator
>
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> 1. Re: Need assistance with chown and find commands (Dave Weis)
> 2. Re: Need assistance with chown and find commands (Nicolai)
> 3. Re: Need assistance with chown and find commands (Dave Weis)
> 4. Re: vm on top of xen? (jim kraai)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:01:05 -0600
> From: Dave Weis <djweis at sjdjweis.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Need assistance with chown and find commands
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> Your way was dangerous because it didn't sanitize the arguments. I could
> create a filename of?
> whatever ; rm -rf /
> And clean your system or at least files you have permission to erase if
> not root.
>
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Tim McLaughlin <timothy.r.mclaughlin at gmail.com>
> Date:12/19/2013 1:22 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Need assistance with chown and find commands
>
> I was trying to give some options and for the specifics to be figured out.
> no one learns anything with cut and paste, and its only fun if you are
> learning something new.
>
> --Tim
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:
>
> > On 12/19/2013 01:10 PM, Paul Gray wrote:
> >
> >? find . - -user userA -exec chown userB {} \;
> >>
> >????????? ^ Typo.? No extra dash
> >
> > find . -userA -exec chown userB {} \;
> >
> > -PG
> >
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:05:14 -0600
> From: Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Need assistance with chown and find commands
> Message-ID: <20131219200514.GA20798 at vectra.student.iastate.edu>
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> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:01:05PM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
> > Your way was dangerous because it didn't sanitize the arguments.
>
> This is why people should use something like
>
> find . -user bob -print0 | xargs -0 chown alice:alice
>
> if they have to pass output of find to something else.
>
> BTW I'm curious why running this command is necessary. Why not fix the
> software creating files under the wrong user?
>
> Nicolai
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:17:39 -0600
> From: Dave Weis <djweis at sjdjweis.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Need assistance with chown and find commands
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> The reason people don't fix the software:
>
> A young woman was preparing a ham dinner. After she cut off the end of the
> ham, she placed it in a pan for baking.
>
> Her friend asked her,"Why did you cut off the end of the ham"?
>
> And she replied ,"I really don't know but my mother always did, so I
> thought you were supposed to."
>
> Later when talking to her mother she asked her why she cut off the end of
> the ham before baking it, and her mother replied, "I really don't know, but
> that's the way my mom always did it."
>
> A few weeks later while visiting her grandmother, the young woman asked,
> "Grandma, why is it that you cut off the end of a ham before you bake it?"
>
> Her grandmother replied, "Well dear, otherwise it would never fit into my
> baking pan."
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org
> >wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:01:05PM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
> > > Your way was dangerous because it didn't sanitize the arguments.
> >
> > This is why people should use something like
> >
> > find . -user bob -print0 | xargs -0 chown alice:alice
> >
> > if they have to pass output of find to something else.
> >
> > BTW I'm curious why running this command is necessary. Why not fix
> > the software creating files under the wrong user?
> >
> > Nicolai
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:03:11 -0600
> From: jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] vm on top of xen?
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> i forgot to say, "thank you" for the great answers
>
> Thank you!
>
> Seriously.
>
> --jim
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Theron Conrey <theron at conrey.org> wrote:
>
> > These days I try and steer folks towards containers on VMs rather than
> > nested. Unless you actually need full VM isolation for something
> > crazy, container level isolation has less load, and doesn't cost as
> > much in terms of performance.
> >
> > Plus.. it's cool.
> >
> > -theron
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:35 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> You guys are awesome
> >> On Oct 4, 2013 12:23 PM, "Matt Stanton" <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah, Linode doesn't expose virtualization instructions to their
> guests.
> >>> Interestingly enough, though, DigitalOcean does (vmx). The
> >>> problem with DigitalOcean is that they do not allow you to choose
> >>> your bootloader...
> >>> their hypervisor (they use KVM) specifies the kernel image to boot
> >>> and acts as bootloader itself. You have to choose one of a couple
> >>> of possible options for kernel images given the distro you chose to
> >>> install, which means you don't even get to do your own kernel
> >>> configurations or security updates. I would imagine that this
> >>> precludes using xen or kvm inside your VPS (though vbox might
> >>> work?). You would, of course, have to choose a decent VPS with
> >>> enough virtual cpus to be able to distribute some to your nested
> >>> VMs.
> >>>
> >>> -- Matt (N0BOX)
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my ASUS Transformer
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: "Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
> >>> To: cialug at cialug.org
> >>> Sent: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:44 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] vm on top of xen?
> >>>
> >>> I believe what you are asking for is called "nested virtualization".
> >>>
> >>> Generally it is not supported because the base virtualization layer
> >>> (Xen, in your case) does not pass the virtualization extensions to
> >>> the guest. Run this in your guest, and if you get any output then
> >>> hardware virtualization will work, but if not, then it won't:
> >>> $ egrep 'vmx|svm' /proc/cpuinfo Note that that command is
> >>> Linux-specific; what you are really searching for are whether
> >>> virtualization extensions of the CPU are exposed to the guest OS.
> >>>
> >>> If you *really* want to do nested virtualization, it might be
> >>> possible with some restrictions about what guest operating systems
> you can run.
> >>> To learn more, i recommend search terms like these (i got results
> >>> from Google that seemed applicable):
> >>> xen without hardware virtualization
> >>> virtualbox without hardware virtualization
> >>> xen paravirtualization
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2013-10-04 at 11:24:53 jim kraai wrote:
> >>> > can I run xen on xen or vbox on xen?
> >>> >
> >>> > wanting to fiddle with craziness on a linode vps >
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