[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
> No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain 
> files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be 
> owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown 
> <username>:<username> /var/lib/usershares/<sharename>'.
>
> You should have something like this:
> ls -l /var/lib/samba
> drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares
> ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
> -rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music
>
> s/

ok, after reading that a bit more, and fiddling a bit, I have managed to 
cd to usershares, and ls -l to view permissions. Funny thing, some of 
the files have username some have root. I get what you are trying to 
say, about changing permissions and ownership of directories inside 
usershares, but if I am in usershares, how does that change the command? 
I dont want to mess it up.

thank you.