Samba server problem

[Patton Echols]

On 11/16/2009 06:11 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> I will try that this evening.  But since janice can connect from the ubuntu desktop machine, wouldn't that tell us that windata is being shared?
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> That is very strange. You have permissions 764 set and so nobody except 
> patton would be able to see anything under those directories shown. 
> Also, you did not give us the actual permissions of /raid/Windata.
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> 'ls -ld /raid/Windata' please
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Uhhh, ok I just learned something.  I had thought that you were 
*supposed* to set permissions on "data" that are not intended to be 
executable to "rw" and not "x".  Though now that I look for it, I can't 
find a reference for why I "Knew" that.  But setting permissions fixed 
it.  A couple of questions if you don't mind.

Would it be better practice to have the directory "owned" by the group 
"users" (if you can even to that) and set the permissions to 700, or to 
do as it is now, files are "owned" by me, but permissions are 770?

More generically, why all the permission levels if you can't touch the 
files w/o the correct "rwx" permissions?  or am I missing something 
critical?  I suppose this question really should be added to my reading 
list for future reference.

Thanks for the heads up.

(Since Gary pointed out that I had been posting badly, I am going to 
copy a shortened version in the original thread to make it easier find.  
He makes a good point that someone else looking for the answer to this 
will read that part and maybe not here.)