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... and have a still usable window. Using Camino and Terminal, Minimize the Camino window (the Slashdot page is very effective). Type the killall Dock command into Terminal. After you shift-click the Camino window and can see it starting to crawl out of the Dock QUICKLY go over to the Terminal window and hit Enter. If you time it well (you can also try the sleep version if you are having timing problems), you will be left with a Camino window that is still usable, although squished. I did this and had the top part of the window full and the bottom part at about 1/3 size. I was able to browse a few websites with the window like that. It actually will draw everything to fit in that skewed perspective!
What I have seen in my experience with firewire HD's and other shares is that if you would the drive as your normal user login you get that behaviour of it not picking up the user id's. If you drop to a shell and sudo mount it then it shows the correct owner's (or atleast uid/gid numbers) and permissions.
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... and have a still usable window. Using Camino and Terminal, Minimize the Camino window (the Slashdot page is very effective). Type the killall Dock command into Terminal. After you shift-click the Camino window and can see it starting to crawl out of the Dock QUICKLY go over to the Terminal window and hit Enter. If you time it well (you can also try the sleep version if you are having timing problems), you will be left with a Camino window that is still usable, although squished. I did this and had the top part of the window full and the bottom part at about 1/3 size. I was able to browse a few websites with the window like that. It actually will draw everything to fit in that skewed perspective!
What I have seen in my experience with firewire HD's and other shares is that if you would the drive as your normal user login you get that behaviour of it not picking up the user id's. If you drop to a shell and sudo mount it then it shows the correct owner's (or atleast uid/gid numbers) and permissions.