From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: group Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 13:42:46 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20040101133840.01feb838@celine> References: <3FF48E66.5000206@dpomeroy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3FF48E66.5000206@dpomeroy.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Cc: dave At 01:17 PM 1/1/2004 -0800, dave wrote: >I'll try to ask this question so that it makes sense. I'm running >Mandrake 9.1. I've made a folder called "/home/everyone". I have my >daughter sharing an internet connection on my local network. My router >gives ip addresses when she starts her computer, (windows98) and it gives >me an ip address when I start up, (Mandrake 9.1). I'm trying to share the >folder "/home/everyone" between her and me. Samba gives her access to >Laura folder on my linux box and when she logs into my linux machine she >can also access her folder. I've changed the permissions on the >/home/everyone folder to rwx with chmod. When I reboot I loose the w >permission on /home/everyone. Otherwise everything works great. >Anyone have some suggestions? Thanks for your help. Dave -- DId you see my reply to your earlier query to the list? I didn't copy you individually, assuming you were subscribed, and I suppose I may have assumed wrong. This time I am cc'ing you. In case you missed it before, I think it still applies to the revised version of your questions, so I quote it here. It applies to the slightly different trouble report you posted the first time, which is why a couple of the specifics may seem not to make sense given this variant in your reporting. >I don't *quite* understand what you are describing. Is it only after the >reboot that users are unable to write to the directory? Or are they always >unable to write to it? > >Just to be sure we are all talking about the same thing, please send us >the output of this sequence of commands (run as root): > > ls -l /home/everyone > chmod 775 /home/everyone > chgrp everyone /home/everyone > ls -l /home/everyone > grep everyone /etc/group > >What test are you using for "cannot write" and what is an example of the >actual failure? Are we talking about users unable to save to the directory >from login shells? Or Samba failures? Or what? Can root save to the >directory (just trying to eliminate here the possibility of a RO filesystem)? > >There is probably some error of detail in your procedure. With the above >output, I (or someone else here, perhaps even you yourself) may be able to >spot it. (For example,. you write: "I used chgrp to make the folders owner >group everyone". The term *owner* applies to a userid, not a groupid. This >may just be a terminology imprecision, or it may reflect an error in what >you are actually doing.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs