>I am trying to allow anonymous ftp to have access to some parts of my DOS partition. I am using symbolic
>links to establish which areas are available for read rights. All works well for anyone but anonymous ftp
>users who recieve the message "directory [file] does not exist." I have gone as far as to open relevent
>files rwxrwxrwx but to no avail.
This is *not* a Linux question - it's probably in the Unix FAQ.
Anon-FTP runs under chroot().
All references to / actually refer to /home/ftp/
If you create a symlink to /dosc/foo/bar then anon-FTP users will in
fact be looking at /home/ftp/dosc/foo/bar.
To solve this either:
1) don't run anon-ftp under chroot() (I can't recall how - RTFM).
or
2) mount the dos partion at /home/ftp/dosc
or
3) (If you only want users to be able to access some directories).
NFS export /dosc and re-import bits of it below /home/ftp
Quote:> The core of the problem may be in that I cannot change the partition
>itself to allow anyone but the root group to have access. ie: "chgrp wheel dosd/" replys: operation not
>permited.
This is another problem altogether. MSDOS does not have the concepts
of UID,GID and so on. See "man mount" (or even the Linux-FAQ, you do
have the Linux-FAQ don't you?) for how to change the UID,GID of a
mounted DOS filesystem.
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