> The problem I'm seeing is that the files > created from windows are all owned by "65530". > When the users go to the unix side and try > to run stuff, it looks like they're gettting permission > problems, and now I'm wondering if the problem > is the fact that the directory and files are all > created from windows, through Samba, > to what is actually a unix drive.
This is an extremely common problem in my processing environment, and that's precisely what happens. > Is there a way to pass owner information along > somehow when I'm creating these files so > I can say they belong to 'london' rather than > 65530? Or maybe there's a way to change > the owner once the directory and files are > created? I'd like to fix this from the windows I haven't found a good one to do it programatically. The ways I've found are either: 1. make a windows user (assuming you're in an environment that deals with users) with the same name as your unix login, or 2. make a unix login with the same name Unix thinks your windows user is, and use that to chown the files properly once they get there. Kate _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
