Re: [SLE] Nobody is home in Samba [Solved]

From: Jerome Lyles (susemail_at_hawaii.rr.com)
Date: 05/08/04

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Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 19:47:46 -1000

    Excellent! Yes it helps very much. Thank you.
    Jerome

    On Friday 07 May 2004 04:32 am, David Rankin wrote:
    > What are modes 0660 and 0750? And from one of your later
    >
    > > emails (Samba Share - Access Denied) what does "chmod g+s /some directory
    >
    > do?
    >
    > > Thanks again,
    > > Jerome
    >
    > The easiest way to think about it is that the four numbers of a mode
    > represent -- directory -- owner -- group -- world -- permissions. The
    > directory bit just signifies whether the filename is a file (0) or a
    > directory (1). The owner, group and world permissions are each defined by
    > the read, write and execute bits. (ie. dwrxwrxwrx) The mode numbers are
    > just short hand for setting the binary attributes of the read-write-execute
    > permissions you want. For the owner, group and world bits the numbers mean
    > the following:
    >
    > # binary wrx permission
    > 1 001 (--x) execute only
    > 2 010 (-w-) write only
    > 3 011 (-wx) write and execute
    > 4 100 (r--) read only
    > 5 101 (r-x) read and execute
    > 6 110 (rw-) read and write
    > 7 111 (rwx) read, write and execute
    >
    > So chmod 0660 filename sets the file permission of filename to
    >
    > -rw-rw----
    >
    > That means owner has read/write and group has read/write and world has no
    > access
    >
    > Similarly chmod 0750 filename sets the file permission of filename to
    >
    > -rwx-r-x---
    >
    > Which means owner has read/write/execute, group has read/execute and world
    > has no access.
    >
    > If your not affecting the directory bit, you can omit the leading 0. So
    > chmod 660 is the same as chmod 0660.
    >
    > Hope that helps...... Somebody add this to a man page somewhere........
    >
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    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Jerome Lyles" <susemail@hawaii.rr.com>
    > To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
    > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:35 AM
    > Subject: Re: [SLE] Nobody is home in Samba [Solved]
    >
    > > On Thursday 06 May 2004 03:27 am, Louis Richards wrote:
    > > <SNIP>
    > > I did as you suggested and also I added myself as a user using smbpasswd
    >
    > and
    >
    > > it worked. Thank you Louis! I checked man chmod but couldn't find out
    >
    > what
    >
    > > the modes you suggested I use mean. What are the create mask and
    >
    > directory
    >
    > > mask functions? What are modes 0660 and 0750? And from one of your
    > > later emails (Samba Share - Access Denied) what does "chmod g+s /some
    > > directory
    >
    > do?
    >
    > > Thanks again,
    > > Jerome
    > >
    > > > You have changed this to make the home directory browsable. When a
    > > > client first browses a server, it is done as nobody. You have not
    > > > logged on to the server yet. The server has no way to tell who you are.
    > > > You also are allowing guest access. Try the following:
    > > >
    > > > [homes]
    > > > comment = Home Directories
    > > > valid users = %S
    > > > writable = Yes
    > > > create mask = 0660
    > > > directory mask = 0770
    > > > browseable = No
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > --
    > > >
    > > > Louis D. Richards
    > > > LDR Interactive Technologies
    > >
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