[Midas] Changing the assetstore in Midas

[Michael Grauer]

Hmmm, yeah, those ownership values look strange, with the numeric owners
and groups.

I tried to reproduce your use case, mounting a cifs network share and using
that as an assetstore.  I was able to get it to work, but you might have
trouble because you will be using different authentication mechanism,
hopefully this will get you close.

Here is my setup:

-a network share at //networkserver/share
-a folder under that share at //networksever/share/mgrauer/temp
-created a folder on my local machine at /mnt/networkshare/temp
-changed ownership of that local folder to the www-data user and group

sudo chown www-data:www-data /mnt/networkshare/temp

-mounted the network share folder to the local folder, (I can mount that
share without my username, hence the "guest"), and the uid and gid of
www-data (the apache user on ubuntu)

sudo mount -t cifs //networkserver/share /mnt/networkshare/temp -o
"username=guest,uid=www-data,gid=www-data,noauto,umask=002,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775,rw"

now when I do

ls -latr /mnt/networkshare/temp

I can see the mgrauer folder (from //networkserver/share/mgrauer) and it is
owned by www-data:www-data

I then added this local path as an assetstore and set this assetstore as
the default, and was able to upload to Midas and have my files saved and
folders/subfolders created.

assetstorepath = /mnt/networkshare/temp/mgrauer/temp

I hope this gives you some insight into your setup.

Thanks,
Mike





On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Samira <samiras at ece.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Hi Mike,****
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> Yes, exactly, I meant what you said. When I mounted the midas folder, I
> couldn’t change the ownership to apache user due to the permission problem.
> As I knew if you change the ownership before mounting a folder it will
> work. But it seems that in that case it doesn’t work. I attached a
> screenshot of the ls –al and mount command.****
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> Thank you so much****
>
> Samira****
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> *From:* Michael Grauer [mailto:michael.grauer at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* September-04-12 12:56 PM
> *To:* Samira
> *Cc:* midas at public.kitware.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Midas] Changing the assetstore in Midas****
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> ** **
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> Hi Samira,****
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> ** **
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> When you say the first and second folder, do you mean /mnt/midas/2c for
> the first and /mnt/midas/2c/b0 for the second, or something else?****
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> ** **
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> Can you tell me the results of these command lines (I'm looking for the
> ownership, group, and permissions) on your linux web server machine:****
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> ls -la /mnt****
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> ls -la /mnt/midas****
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> ls -la /mnt/midas/2c
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> Also, can you tell me the result of the "mount" command, specifically the
> single line where you mount to /mnt/midas?****
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>
> Thanks,****
>
> Mike
>
> ****
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> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Samira <samiras at ece.ubc.ca> wrote:****
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> Hi All, ****
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>  ****
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> I’ve recently installed midas on a linux machine in our lab at UBC. I
> changed the default assetstore to a mounted file system (a windows server
> on the network).  But when I want to upload the data I get an error. Midas
> can create the first folder successfully, but when it wants to create the
> second folder the problem happens, however I can create the folder
> manually. it seems that it’s a permission problem because the first folder
> has full permission but the second one doesn’t, I attached some screenshot
> of the error page and my settings. It would be great if anyone can help me
> to figure it out. ****
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>  ****
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> Thanks,****
>
> Samira****
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>  ****
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> --
> Thanks,
> Michael Grauer
> R & D Engineer
> Kitware, Inc.
> 919 969 6990 x322
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> ****
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Thanks,
Michael Grauer
R & D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
919 969 6990 x322
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