[Tfug] permission denied

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Mon Nov 7 20:39:51 MST 2005


On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, arcturus wrote:

> I'm getting a 'permission denied' error when trying to copy files of any type 
> from my linux ftp server (abit) to a mounted FAT32 partition over the network 
> (Albatron). 
> root at abit:/home/ftp# cp tu1.avi /home/ftpdown/Albatron/
> cp: cannot create regular file `/home/ftpdown/Albatron/tu1.avi': Permission 
> denied

> arcturus at abit:~$ cat /etc/fstab

> 192.168.0.2:/mnt/windows        /home/ftpdown/Albatron  nfs     rw,users 
> 0 0

Check the /etc/exports for your NFS setup especially for "root" mapping.

> arcturus at Albatron:~$ cat /etc/fstab

> /dev/sda5       /mnt/windows    vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000        0

Also check the permissions locally there. And can you do copies there 
locally too?

  Jeremy C. Reed

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