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    copied!<p>In my development environment the codebase is mounted on a ubuntu-server VM using a samba mount, it is mounted as root and I run mongrel as root.</p> <p>When I try and upload a file with Paperclip the file saves fine but then it seems to have problems creating the different styles.</p> <p>I get the following error:</p> <pre><code>Errno::EACCES (Permission denied - /foo/some/file/path/file-name-style.jpg): /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1272:in `chown' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1272:in `copy_metadata' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:452:in `copy_entry' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1324:in `traverse' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:448:in `copy_entry' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:507:in `mv' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1395:in `fu_each_src_dest' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1411:in `fu_each_src_dest0' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1393:in `fu_each_src_dest' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:494:in `mv' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip/storage.rb:43:in `flush_writes' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip/storage.rb:39:in `each' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip/storage.rb:39:in `flush_writes' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip/attachment.rb:142:in `save' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip.rb:331:in `send' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip.rb:331:in `save_attached_files' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip.rb:324:in `each_attachment' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip.rb:323:in `each' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip.rb:323:in `each_attachment' vendor/gems/thoughtbot-paperclip-2.3.0/lib/paperclip.rb:330:in `save_attached_files' </code></pre> <p>It works fine however if I remove /foo/ from the folder structure of the mounted code and instead make it a symbolic link to somewhere directly within the Ubuntu VM.</p>
 

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