Re: Open file on a Mounted Share on Mac OS X

Ok you may be on to something here. Everytime I was trying to chmod the permissions etcetera, the share was mounted, and that probably was the problem. What is a mount point? How do I set ownership/permission of a mount point? On 9/13/06 2:42 PM, "John Nichel" <john@kegworks.com> wrote: > I don't know about Mac, but in Linux you cannot change the permissions > of a mount point while the volume is mounted. You can umount the > volume, set ownership/permissions on the mount point, then remount the > share. Also, you can set the uid and gid in the options of the mount > command (as well as rw mode). Rahul S. Johari Supervisor, Internet & Administration Informed Marketing Services Inc. 500 Federal Street, Suite 201 Troy NY 12180 Tel: (518) 687-6700 x154 Fax: (518) 687-6799 Email: rahul@informed-sources.com http://www.informed-sources.com