Paul A. Luzzi

June 18, 2008

Having problems with the Lacie 1Tb NAS again.   This time it was with permissions.  Since I have 2 usernames I use regularly, call them “user-a” and “user-aa”, and I had “user-aa” already created, it wouldnt let me create the “user-a” and kept telling me it was already present.  I can only assume its doing something like a grep internally, and not properly looking for words, but instead searching for substrings – or should I say accepting substrings.  So what I had to do was to remove “user-aa”, then add “user-a” FIRST, then re-add “user-aa”.  That seemed to work.  Not sure if it will create problems later or not, but we’ll
surely find out.  Also disabled all Apple file sharing services while updating the permissions.
Also had to replace a bad video card in my vmware-dev box, which is just a whitebox pc.  It kept hanging at the boot screen after the windows logo disappears and the login box should appear.  Replacing the card resolved that issue.