Hi Gert,   
      
   >>> I am trying to make a new installation of bbbs_nt to work on a Win7 co   
   >>> XP system.   
   >>> I got all to look rigt of things.   
   >>> But when I have tic and files in the inbound directory for bbbs and run   
   >>> 'bbbs btick' to import the files is bbbs comes up with error of 'cant   
   >>> copy file to \home\bbbs\pub\[dir]\   
      
   >> 1st, check the path in your filedirg.000 file. 2nd, check for the same   
   >> path in your external.bbb file [tick] section.   
      
   >>> I have the path for the files and directory made for the files.   
   >>> Can someone help me up with this or tell me what could be wrong.   
      
   >> If it's not #1 or #2 above, then check the permissions on your hard   
   >> drive file areas for user bbbs.  I am not sure about Windows, since I   
   >> run the Linux version but I thought you also control permissions in the   
   >> same sort of way with Windows.   
      
   >> Also check in filedirg.000 for permissions in the area, permissions for   
   >> R&W should look something like this:   
      
   >Got and I find a little typus miss where I had write /home/bbbs/ and forgot it   
   > is /dsds2/home, after the corrected here it got import and process some files   
   > but then end up with coming with pwd error for node and not find out if it is   
   > 2:230/152.16 or .18   
   > It uplink is 2:230/152.16 for fidonet and the bbbs aka as bbs is 152.18   
      
   Kim one day worked with me to make sure the spaces were correct between the   
   passwords for a node in the external.bbb [nodes] section.  Maybe the spaces   
   between the passwords is the problem?   
      
    node      spass   apass   ppass   tpass gr  st pa route   
    --------- ------- ------- ------- ----- --- -- -- -------------------   
      
   1:261/2      passwrd  passwrd  passwrd  passwrd  XFG H   2 1:261/5   
      
   If the downlink doesn't want a packet password, you still have to put in a   
   dash (-) there.   
      
   1:261/2      passwrd  passwrd  -      passwrd  XFG H   2 1:261/5   
      
      
   >> ===example filedirg.000===   
   >> /                /home/ftp/pub                 Root directory   
   >> /incoming       /home/bbbs/pub/incoming       @rw:fsysop New uploads   
   >> /comm  /home/ftp/pub/comm/        @rw:fsysop @r:all [COMM] Comm/term   
   >> Files]   
   >> /mail   /home/ftp/pub/mail/      @rw:fsysop @r:all [MAIL] Mail   
   >> Utilities   
   >> /pdn   /home/ftp/pub/pdn/      @rw:fsysop @r:all [PDN] Programmers   
   >> Distribution   
   >> /pdn/pdnai   /home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnai/      @rw:fsysop @r:all AI   
   >> (artificial int   
   >> /pdn/pdnasm   /home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnasm/    @rw:fsysop @r:all ASM   
   >> Programming   
   >> [...]   
   >> =======example filedirg.000====   
      
   >Then was there 3 files to lnx4games there got erroring the most time but I fin   
   >out that in external.bbb and filedirg it was writte as lnx4games when harddisk   
   > directory was made as lnx4game, so I set bbbs to use dir lnx4game.   
      
   Ok, so that sounds like some progress..   
      
   >>> I coudl too like bbbs to just autocreate echomail and file areas when it   
   >>> is a save way that nothing is getting directly to bbbs from outside.   
      
   >> Check out the [badareas] section in external.bbb.. There, you tell bbbs   
   >> who to expect new echomail areas from and what specific flags to apply   
   >> to each imported area your Uplink sends to you.  Then you can run   
      
   >> ./bcfg4 bad  [Autocreate echoareas]   
   >> and   
   >> ./bbbs bogus b [Forward bad mail and write them to BBBS]   
      
   >> IIRC, There isn't a way to automatically add file echos.   
      
   >> Maybe Torbjorn will mention something I'm not thinking of here since he   
   >> runs the Windows version.   
      
   > It should be the same for windows as for linux should I mean, but as this is   
   > telling about in the sysop files is it missing as section in the external.bbb   
   > file.   
   > The bbbs I have it the old bbbs_nt version.   
      
   If you want me to take a look at your external.bbb file, you can attach it to   
   an email and send it to me at janis@filegate.net.   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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