Writing files on 98 from linux

Urban Widmark
Sat, 12 Jan 2002 11:25:03 -0000

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Peter wrote:

> 	I have the same problem that I had a few months ago. I can create
> files on my windows machines from my linux machine but the files
> will be blank. I was told that this is a windows problem but that
> does not answer the problem for me because I can write files on
> one Win machine to another. The problem seems to me to be in the
> translations of permissions from linux to MS and that is SAMBA
> no? I can give my linux texts ugo+rwx permissions and after I
> copy them onto the windows box they appear to have only ugo+r
> permission, when viewed from the linux machine.

Could you explain this using commands and their output? It's not very
clear to me what you are doing (which parts of samba you are using for
example) and what you are seeing (where are the permissions ugo+r?).

/Urban