Hello Barry,

Sunday December 08 2002 19:02, Barry Blackford wrote to Frank Reid:

 BB> I also have this problem: it's a major problem for me!

 BB> When my win machine tryies to overwrite files on my linux server, it
 BB> plain does not work (if a file exists), I can only do it to a local
 BB> drive, thau my ftp server is never up to date and my allfix logs are
 BB> full or errors relating to this issue. Yet I can copy the file over the
 BB> top from dos and windows as well as using xtree, only allfix has this
 BB> problem...

Have a look at the sticky bit of that directoris. If set with chmod 3777
testdir others may change or read files but are not allowed to delete
files. A file overwrite is a deletion.

Regards, Gisbert
         rudolph{at}grudolph.de

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