[tahoe-dev] Upload to prod not working from Linux Tahoe?

[Andrej Falout]

Ah ok, "vi private/aliases" did it :-)

I can see my allmydata.com files!

Thanks for your help!

(Still; what is the correct order of params for create-alias?)

Andrej


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Andrej Falout <andrej at falout.org> wrote:

> Thank you very much Brian for the detailed explanation. This is probably a
> good material for a Linux Wiki page?
>
> I tried the "easiest" variant (3), after obtaining the URI for root_dir.cap
> file (from https://www.allmydata.com/native_client.php) . However tahoe
> set-alias tahoe ...etc.. command returns only
>
> Unknown command: set-alias
>
> Guessing it may be the add-alias, I tried that, but I cannot find a
> combination of parameters that would be accepted. For instance:
>
> tahoe create-alias --node-directory='/home/andrej/.tahoe-allmydata.com/'
> tahoe URI:DIR2:blahblah...etc
>
> /usr/local/bin/tahoe:  Wrong number of arguments.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrej
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Brian Warner <warner-tahoe at allmydata.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:02:10 +1100
>> Andrej Falout <andrej at falout.org> wrote:
>>
>> > tahoe ls --node-directory='/home/andrej/.tahoe-allmydata.com/'
>> "data/sync
>> > test"
>> > 1
>> > 1~
>> > 3_renamed
>> > NWE
>> >
>> > But I see nothing on https://www.allmydata.com/webdrive/index.php
>> >
>> > I was expecting that the files will show up after a while, as they do if
>> I
>> > copy them to Windows mounted drive. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> I suspect that your linux node is accessing a different Tahoe directory
>> than
>> the www.allmydata.com webdrive.
>>
>> The www.allmydata.com webdrive shows the contents of your "rootcap" (a
>> capability string, starting with URI:DIR2:, which grants read+write access
>> to
>> a directory and everything reachable through it), which is a
>> starting-point
>> directory that is created when you create your allmydata.com account and
>> is
>> stored in a database that is accessed by the webdrive. To manipulate that
>> directory from the command line, you'll need an alias that points to it.
>> Let's call this directory URI:DIR2:AAA . (of course, you should only
>> reveal
>> the actual contents of a dircap string to people with whom you want to
>> share
>> that directory).
>>
>> How did you set up the "tahoe:" alias in the CLI tool?
>>
>> If you created your "tahoe:" alias with "tahoe create-alias", then your
>> linux
>> machine's Tahoe node is using an isolated directory that is not connected
>> to
>> your www.allmydata.com filesystem. "tahoe create-alias" creates a
>> brand-new
>> directory (not connected to anything else) and stores the dircap in
>> ~/.tahoe/aliases . If that's what happened, let's call this directory
>> URI:DIR2:BBB .
>>
>> So, if my suspicions are correct, your allmydata.com rootcap is AAA, and
>> the
>> webdrive will show you only the contents of AAA. Your linux node has an
>> alias
>> of BBB, and will only show you the contents of BBB.
>>
>> If so, you have three basic options:
>>
>>  1: obtain a copy of your allmydata.com rootcap AAA, and attach it as a
>> child
>>    of your local BBB "tahoe:" alias directory. This effectively puts the
>>    allmydata.com webdrive space into a subdirectory of your linux node's
>>    reachable space: there will be some things that your linux node can get
>>    but which your allmydata.com webdrive cannot.
>>  2: take your local BBB directory and attach it as a child of your
>>    allmydata.com AAA directory. This puts your linux node's directory
>>    underneath the allmydata.com directory, so there will be things that
>> the
>>    webdrive can reach which the linux node cannot. (note, I don't think
>> the
>>    webdrive has a UI for attaching caps as children, so it may not be
>>    convenient to exercise this option)
>>  3: discard your local BBB directory, get a copy of the allmydata.com AAA
>>    rootcap, and use "tahoe set-alias tahoe AAA" to make your linux node
>>    point to the same directory as the allmydata.com directory. This is
>> the
>>    simplest approach: both the www.allmydata.com webdrive and your local
>>    linux node will be looking at the same directory.
>>
>> I'm not sure how you obtain the "AAA" rootcap, but I think Peter knows (it
>> involves your allmydata.com username and password, of course).
>>
>>
>> hope that helps,
>>  -Brian
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrej Falout
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>



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Andrej Falout
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