What am I missing here?

[Joel Hammer]

With a directory called /mnt/data:
[root at cc847658-a /mnt]# ls -al /mnt/data
total 2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  root 1024 Nov 25 17:54 . 
drwxrwxrwx  19 root  root 1024 Nov 25 17:54 ..             
The first line, with one ".", is the current directory /mnt/data.
The line with two .'s is the directory above it, mnt.
The /mnt/data directory would not be writable by anyone but root, so:
chmod 777 /mnt/data or chmod a+w /mnt/data
Then:
[root at cc847658-a /mnt]# ls -al /mnt/data
total 2
drwxrwxrwx   2 root  root 1024 Nov 25 17:54 .
drwxrwxrwx  19 root  root 1024 Nov 25 17:54 ..       
Now, linux will let everyone read, write, and descend this directory.
Samba might make it more restrictive, but with guesk ok = yes and with read
only = no that shouldn't happen.
Joel


On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:11:36PM -0000, Alexander Shaw wrote:
> Also, check the permissions on /mnt/data.
> Joel
> 
> Sorry Joel this is all new to me, what should I be looking for and where
> with relation to /mnt/data?
> 
> Alex