Okay, admittedly I'm running an old version 2.0.5, but, why do I have to set the eXecute permission in Linux before Samba will let a Windows client see any files? Why would execute have anything to do with read and/or write? I would think I could set -rw-rw---- or -rw-rw-rw- and be just fine, but oh no, you get an empty list and cannot create new files until I change it to -rwxrwx--- or -rwxrwxrwx. -- Marshall Lucas -- IT Systems Analyst -- EDI Specialist -- Petra Industries, Inc.
On directories, the "execute" bit means permission to search the directory. That's what the Samba user needs to see files in it.> -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Lucas [mailto:mlucas@petra.com] > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:20 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Linux permissions vs Samba permissions > > > Okay, admittedly I'm running an old version 2.0.5, but, why > do I have to set > the eXecute permission in Linux before Samba will let a > Windows client see > any files? Why would execute have anything to do with read > and/or write? I > would think I could set -rw-rw---- or -rw-rw-rw- and be just > fine, but oh > no, you get an empty list and cannot create new files until I > change it > to -rwxrwx--- or -rwxrwxrwx. > > -- Marshall Lucas > -- IT Systems Analyst > -- EDI Specialist > -- Petra Industries, Inc. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
The "x" in the permissions of directories controls access to the directory (as in read the contents). On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 09:20, Marshall Lucas wrote:> Okay, admittedly I'm running an old version 2.0.5, but, why do I have to set > the eXecute permission in Linux before Samba will let a Windows client see > any files? Why would execute have anything to do with read and/or write? I > would think I could set -rw-rw---- or -rw-rw-rw- and be just fine, but oh > no, you get an empty list and cannot create new files until I change it > to -rwxrwx--- or -rwxrwxrwx. > > -- Marshall Lucas > -- IT Systems Analyst > -- EDI Specialist > -- Petra Industries, Inc. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-- Ken Schneider Senior UNIX Administrator Network Administrator kschneider@rtsx.com