Permissions problem

Shaun Lipscombe shaun.lipscombe at gasops.co.uk
Thu Feb 1 17:16:37 GMT 2001


* "Rob" == Rob Hutton <rob.hutton at ecommsecurity.com> writes:

 >   I am trying to smbmount and access an NT share from my Linux
 > workstation.  Everything seems to be working correctly except for
 > permissions.  Although the from the NT security it is set to world
 > full access, I have to be root on my workstation to do anything but
 > read the files.  Also, if I try to do a chmod as root, it seems to
 > have no effect. Any Ideas?

Chmod won't do you any good, unless you are changing the last octet in
the permission, if the owner is incorrect.  Check to see that the
ownership as well as the permissions are correct.

Shaun

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