file permissions

[chris]

On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 06:59 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Gryllida wrote:
> > The issue is that the new files that I create do not have the other
> > Windows users of that machine on permissions list.
> > As far as I got, these lines do not do anything about users different
> > from me.
> 
> I think you got it right. If you change file permissions to 777, 
> everybody may read / write / execute those files IF it is a Unix (Linux) 
> environment. But what everybody seems to be missing is that you are 
> talking about Windows permissions on a Windows share which has nothing 
> to do with Unix permissions. Therefore the suggested chmod command isn't 
> very useful in your case.
> 
> > Probably I don't understand something, if so please explain
> >  - and how do I allow the other Windows users to edit the files I
> > create on that shared location?
The file on the windows partition need to be archive.  It sounds as if
they are read only which will prevent them being written to.

you would need to access them from windows, and using explorer or
similar change the attribute to archive.

cheers the kiwi