Cannot access UNIX files after xcopy?
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 6:44
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Hello all,
I have a user who has a UNIX box. I was using XCOPY on an XP machine to copy the whole of the UNIX box over the network.
It did not copy all of the files which is fine, I need to investigate that separately but now the user is claiming that he cannot access some menus like “Read disk” and “Search Archive details”
What could have have done wrong? I’m not a unix bod so not sure where to start 
Thank you
Haze
Oh bugger!
Any ideas how I can fix it now then?
I have to say, I find it highly irritating that Windows has fiddled with these files when all I asked it to do was copy them… Grr!
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You probably messed up permissions somehow.
NEVER use Windows Xcopy on non Windows files. Microsoft do NOT acknowledge the existence of any other operating system than their own. It is extremely dangerous to try to use it to work with any files on any other type of file system as Windows does not recognise other file formats. The only way you can use files on any Unix/Linux/FreeBSD machine with Windows is if they are held on the Samba file server as Windows shared directories and files. And you can NOT get proper Unix file and user permissions for any part of the Unix box while using Windows. To copy Unix files between machines your MUST use the native Unix scp secure copy program.
You would be better off doing this in Unix/Linux and copying the files to the NTFS partition. Unix “knows” more about Windows than the other way round. Linux users successfully copy files to their Windows drives all the time routinely.