RE: Windows User vs Novell User

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 23:16 -0500, Nicholas Sloan wrote:
> Steve, first of all, you seemed to have forgotten to reply to all
> with your response. You are actually the only one to respond so far.
>
> For anyone interested, my working directory is on a networked drive
> which is on a Novell Netware server, I believe.

First of all, I don't know much about Novel servers, but normally with
heterogeneous file servers there is a way of mapping the username from
one environment (windows) to the internal (here: Novel) representation.

> On my Windows workstation (running svn) the username is SloanN.

So the subversion server is running on the workstation? Or are you
using fsfs?

> My Novell username (the user that actually writes to the drive) is
> SloanN.Users.ATIS.AOU.WMU.
>
> The Novell username is too long to set as a Windows XP username.

Rather impractical as well, I'd guess....

> Subversion is running as SloanN. All of the other files used by
> subversion are writable by anyone, but the tmp directory is only
> writable by the owner.

Can you, from Windows and a Novel client alike, create a file from your
favourite tool and delete it again? If not, what is the exact error?

> simply seeing "Writable by owner only, owner is
> SloanN.Users.ATIS.AOU.WMU, I am SloanN" is enough to scare svn away
> from attempting to write the files.

You are sure about that? It is the svn client which falls over? What
is the exact command and corresponding error you are receiving?

 -Frode

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