[Samba] Dumb question time

[David Beards]

Sorry, I just re read my email. the Unix permissions were not 755 but 
644. (R/W owner, read only group and other)

DB

David Beards wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Sorry for the dumb question but I'm obviously missing something. One of 
> our users found an odd behavior with SAMBA which I can't explain, but 
> believe it to be related to the SAMBA/Unix permission mapping. Here's 
> what happens:
> 
> A file existing on a SAMBA share with unix permissions 755
> 
> e.g. -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Dec 17 08:51 test.txt
> 
> can be opened in any Windows application and the security acts as 
> expected. i.e. any user other than root can open the file but if they 
> try and save it they are prohibited and must save it as a new file. 
> However if a user browses using Explorer they have the ability to delete 
> the file from within explorer. (The only exception is if no user has 
> write permissions to the file.)
> 
> Can anyone help explain this behavior? (BTW, I searched the archives and 
> couldn't find anything that appeared to relate to this problem.)


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