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From: Richard Burke on 4 Nov 2005 10:57 Hi. OS X Tiger. This is weird and annoying. I connected to my iBook from my desktop machine, and replaced the icon for the volume with a picture of an iBook, by pasting it into the icon picture in the 'get info' panel. So far so good. What's weird is that now it won't let me change it. I pasted the wrong picture in, so this is a bit of a bummer. Now, every time I mount the iBook volume, it comes up with the icon I pasted. If I go to 'get info' and click on the icon, it refuses to highlight, so there's no chance to change it. Any idea how I can force the system to let me changer the icon? Both systems run Tiger. TIA, Richard
From: Art Gorski on 7 Nov 2005 09:41 In article <no.spam-EABBC0.15562204112005(a)news.btinternet.com>, Richard Burke <no.spam(a)please.com> wrote: >I connected to my iBook from my desktop machine, and replaced the icon >for the volume with a picture of an iBook, by pasting it into the icon >picture in the 'get info' panel. So far so good. > >What's weird is that now it won't let me change it. I pasted the wrong >picture in, so this is a bit of a bummer. Now, every time I mount the >iBook volume, it comes up with the icon I pasted. If I go to 'get info' >and click on the icon, it refuses to highlight, so there's no chance to >change it. > >Any idea how I can force the system to let me changer the icon? Both >systems run Tiger. Sounds like permissions to me. When you connected from your desktop, you probably mounted the iBook hard drive with the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox in 'Get Info' set. Which means you had ghod-like root powers to do anything you wanted. You should be able to repeat the process to remove the icon. Doing it directly from the iBook involves Terminal and chmod, or one of the various utilities that lets you do things like this. The exercise is left to the reader. :-) -- Art Gorski * Mac Integration Staff * Rice University * Houston, Texas Remember to remove NOSPAM from address when replying via email
From: Richard Burke on 8 Nov 2005 05:07 In article <agorski-42F6FC.08414507112005(a)joe.rice.edu>, Art Gorski <agorski(a)NOSPAMrice.edu> wrote: > In article <no.spam-EABBC0.15562204112005(a)news.btinternet.com>, > Richard Burke <no.spam(a)please.com> wrote: > > >I connected to my iBook from my desktop machine, and replaced the icon > >for the volume with a picture of an iBook, by pasting it into the icon > >picture in the 'get info' panel. So far so good. > > > >What's weird is that now it won't let me change it. I pasted the wrong > >picture in, so this is a bit of a bummer. Now, every time I mount the > >iBook volume, it comes up with the icon I pasted. If I go to 'get info' > >and click on the icon, it refuses to highlight, so there's no chance to > >change it. > > > >Any idea how I can force the system to let me changer the icon? Both > >systems run Tiger. > > Sounds like permissions to me. > > When you connected from your desktop, you probably mounted the iBook > hard drive with the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox in 'Get > Info' set. Which means you had ghod-like root powers to do anything you > wanted. > > You should be able to repeat the process to remove the icon. > > Doing it directly from the iBook involves Terminal and chmod, or one of > the various utilities that lets you do things like this. The exercise > is left to the reader. :-) Thanks Art. I'll take a look at this. I appreciate the advice. Richard
From: Richard Burke on 9 Nov 2005 11:02 > Sounds like permissions to me. > > When you connected from your desktop, you probably mounted the iBook > hard drive with the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox in 'Get > Info' set. Which means you had ghod-like root powers to do anything you > wanted. > > You should be able to repeat the process to remove the icon. > > Doing it directly from the iBook involves Terminal and chmod, or one of > the various utilities that lets you do things like this. The exercise > is left to the reader. :-) Hi Art, I would really appreciate more help with this. Terminal and chmod is completely beyond me - and I can't find this check-box you're talking about anywhere. When I connect, I get a dialogue box offering me to connect as a guest or registered user, with options about remembering the password, etc - nothing about 'ignore ownership'. This leads to a dialogue offering me which volumes to mount - the whole machine, or just the home folder. this dialogue has no other options at all. Once connected, if I 'Get Info', there is no 'ignore ownership' check-box in the 'Ownership and Permissions' section. The whole computer is listed as Read Only, and the home folder is listed as 'Read and Write'. By the way, I'm using OS X 10.4.3 Thanks for your advice so far - I hope you can find the time to hel a little more! TIA Richard
From: Art Gorski on 10 Nov 2005 09:57
In article <no.spam-EE789B.16011309112005(a)news.btinternet.com>, Richard Burke <no.spam(a)please.com> wrote: >> Sounds like permissions to me. >> >> When you connected from your desktop, you probably mounted the iBook >> hard drive with the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox in 'Get >> Info' set. Which means you had ghod-like root powers to do anything you >> wanted. >> >> You should be able to repeat the process to remove the icon. >> >> Doing it directly from the iBook involves Terminal and chmod, or one of >> the various utilities that lets you do things like this. The exercise >> is left to the reader. :-) > >Hi Art, > >I would really appreciate more help with this. Terminal and chmod is >completely beyond me - and I can't find this check-box you're talking >about anywhere. > >When I connect, I get a dialogue box offering me to connect as a guest >or registered user, with options about remembering the password, etc - >nothing about 'ignore ownership'. This leads to a dialogue offering me >which volumes to mount - the whole machine, or just the home folder. >this dialogue has no other options at all. OK, my assumption was that you were connecting the iBook via FireWire cable Target Disk Mode, but you are using filesharing instead. >Once connected, if I 'Get Info', there is no 'ignore ownership' >check-box in the 'Ownership and Permissions' section. The whole computer >is listed as Read Only, and the home folder is listed as 'Read and >Write'. The 'ignore ownership' check box appears on non-boot volume hard drives that have been locally mounted, like an external FireWire drive or a Mac connected via Target Disk Mode. If you login to the iBook directly, does the hard drive have the offending icon displayed? Or do you only see it when you connect to it via Filesharing? It might just be a preference stored somewhere on the desktop Mac, which you could kill by searching for it in the Library folder. If, on the other hand, the icon is truly on the iBook itself, then the reason you can't change it is because you are not logging in with an account that gives you all the permissions you need. Have you enabled the root account on the iBook in NetInfo Manager? I'm not going to encourage you to do so, but if you have, you can try connecting using 'root' as the username. But I think ultimately that you will have to login locally to the iBook to fix this. -- Art Gorski * Mac Integration Staff * Rice University * Houston, Texas Remember to remove NOSPAM from address when replying via email |