Creation Password prompt

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Chasan" <joe at magnatechonline.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: Creation Password prompt


> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
>> When asked his whereabouts on Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:48:09PM -0800,
>> Enrique Arredondo took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm moving a database from one old SCO box to my current one but after
>> > copying all the files using ftp  to the new box , I get this prompt all
>> > the time:
>> >
>> > Enter Creation Password for 'bay.WRITEUP'
>> >
>> > How can I get rid of that prompt ?
>>
>> If it's what I think it is, grab the extra field from /etc/default/fppath
>> and put it in the new one.
>
> no, its the site password that is stored there.
>
> if he's getting prompted for a creation password on files that he was
> not getting before, chances are something got corrupted in the copy,
> so the question is how did he copy all the files via ftp to the new
> box.
>
> for something like this, personally, i'd make up a tarball of the
> directory/directories, compress it with the best compression utility
> the 2 boxes have in common, ftp the compressed tarball, then
> uncompress/restore to proper directory on new box.   if the tarball
> is small, skip the compression step.
>

I copied all of the files using tarball, and still getting the damn "enter 
creation password" , I copied from an SCO unix old machine into REDHAD linux 
filepro installation and it works flawless, but then after I tar and move 
from linux to the New SCO 5.0.7 box I start getting all the errors. I wonder 
if the restore I did on the linux from tape was the trick to success ?