CANNOT RENAME OR DELETE FILES IN WINDOWS CLIENT

Kohei Yoshida kyoshida at mesco.com
Mon Jan 21 12:03:04 GMT 2002


On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 14:44, David Albert wrote:
> We are running SCO Unix 5.05 on the Unix box where reports are
> generated.  Samba 2.07 was installed to allow a user a Windows GUI for
> accessing files for printing.  She additionally wishes to rename and
> delete some files.  She is running off of a Windows 98 client which has
> read/write access to the report sub-directory on the Unix server.
> 
> When she goes to rename or delete the files, she gets a message saying
> that she does not have permission to do so.
> 
> Where should I be looking, and for what, to check on why she gets this
> response?

Check the mode/owner/group of that directory on your Unix server to make
sure she as a Unix user has a read/write permission to the directory. 
My guess is that the directory mode doesn't allow her to modify its
content even though Samba grants her a read/write permission (or vice
versa).

Regards,

Kohei





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