Ladies & Gentlemen

I am trying to migrate my kmail setup from a desktop to my laptop. I have succeeded in moving all the files and getting the ownership and permissions right I think except for what seam to be account spec files for the servers relating to each email account. Some of the files I had to take possession of as root to be able to copy them to the laptop and the chown -R user:user /a/dir to be able to have kmail on the laptop use them.

The file names for the ones I can't move to the laptop look something like
user@myemail.com:@some.server.net:995

I have taken possession of these files as root on the desktop and save them to a shared folder that I can access from the laptop. From the laptop I can select the files but when I try to save them on the laptop I get an error message that says access denied. This is the root account how come access is denied?

I have looked on google but I didn't find where anyone else was having this problem.

What am I missing?

It must be one of those stupid things. I did spend an hour or so trying to mount my bluetooth adapter as my thumb drive today. Then I noticed I had the wrong usb thingy in my hand. Duh. Boy do I feel stupid.

Thanks.

Hmmm ... which method are you using for the "but when I try to save them on the laptop"
bit, which user are you doing this as?


Cheers,
Tink

I am doing this through Thunar as root. (kmenu>run>thunar as root) I have not tried to do it from the command line.

The other files I had to take possession of as root, I had to save first in a different folder on the desktop before I could copy them to the laptop. But that didn't work for these.

I thought it might have something to do with kmail being running when I first tried but I shut it down and that didn't change it.

How is that network share being accessed? Thunar means nothing to me.
Is it samba, nfs, something else?


Cheers,
Tink

Thanks Tinkster forgot to mention that thanks before, sorry.

I am accessing the network share via samba. Thunar is a gtk file browser. A lot faster than konqueror.

Thanks

More info:

I have tried to copy these files onto a usb thumb drive (windows format) and the desktop system won't let me. I can however copy them where ever I want to on the desktop. Still no success copying these (desktop)root owned file to the laptop with the (laptop)root account.

I do understand, I think, about the thumb drive because it's file system has no way to preserve the r/w bits for the files.

Still puzzled as to why the (laptop)root account, which can read the files on the desktop, can't save them on the laptop?

Thoughts?

More info:

Although I can see the files from as a normal user I can't open them. They are owned by root, must be why. The permissions are reported as [-rw--w--w-]. I can change these on the desktop from root but not from the laptop. I am unable to look at the contents (they are just text files) from root either.

Sorry my friend, but you're just confusing me :}

Why don't you try to use scp instead?
Become root on the laptop, go to the location where you
want the files to end up
cd /path/to/target
scp -pr root@desktop:/path/to/files .

And then chown the files on the laptop to the user
they're meant to be owner by.
chown -R user:group /path/to/target/files



Cheers,
Tink

More info:

I have tried renaming them on the desktop but I still can't copy them to the laptop.

I have opened them in a root text editor and copied the contents to a normal user text editor and saved the file and it disappears into cyberspace somewhere.

There has to be some kind of bit set that I don't know about.

Thanks again Tinkster

Something must be wrong with the command I am trying to use because it keeps spiting out the scp usage info.

I have tried the -4 option for ip4 addresses only and get the same thing.

Am I correct in assuming that this will overwrite the existing files?

Thanks.

The problem is omitting the . at the end.
And yes, it will overwrite existing files w/o a warning.


Cheers,
Tink

Thanks again Tinkster

I need a . at the end? Never saw that before. I did a little looking on google and looked at a couple of other examples and came to the conclusion that I should be doing this from the desktop and not the laptop where the files needed to end up and I had immediate success without a . at the end.

Thanks again Tinkster for pointing out scp to me. It worked very well. I recopied all of the files for kmail again just to be sure. I did notice as I was looking over the files while chown'ing them that some of them were still owned by the laptop user from the previous attempts. Not a complete overwrite?

Thanks.