File Permissions

From: Michael Gerbasio (mwgerbasio_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:24:06 GMT

Hi,
I'm new to linux and recently setup SuSE 9.0 with as a server on my home
windows network. I have it running fine but I'm confused about the setup
for samba even though it is working.

The partitions created during setup are all owned by root and the group is
root. I created a user "myuser" which is part of the "user" group. The
partition permissions are set for drwxr-xr-x so I would expect the only one
able to read and write to this directory would be the owner, in this case
root, or a member of the root group. However, the user I created "myuser"
can write to this directory even though it is a member of the user group,
not the root group.

To further confuse me, in samba, I can connect to a shared partition (from
WinXP workgroup), but I have to set the access permission to group write to
be able to write to this partition or any directory in the partition. But
the files I've created in that directory are owned by "myuser" and a member
of the "user" group which I would expect. I just don't see how I'm able to
access the directory.

I guess I'm just not getting it after living so long in a Windows world.
I've done quite a bit of reading today from the manuals and on the net but
I'm still confused. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.

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