Hey all, Thanks for the replies. The drives belong to another division in the company and they are quite militant about having their stuff the way they want it. so we can't play around with the setting in Samba's config file. we can't even get read permissions to some of the directories that contain specs, that's a sign of how restrictive they are. The temp solution we figured out is to create the directory manually from the unix/linux side, then populate it with all the files. We're under a crashing deadline right now, and the fix may be clunky, but it will allow our group to debug stuff. And the reason it had to be before 5 is because I'm going on vacation tonight (planned long before this crunch) and will be gone until Monday, so I needed something that would at least be a work around. I'll have to play around with it once I get back on Monday, but at least I'm not the long pole in the tent and I can go on vacation without holding up the entire project while I'm gone. Greg
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Greg London Sent: Wed 5/10/2006 11:40 AM To: Boston Perl Mongers Subject: [Boston.pm] perl, windows, unix, and permissions Garh! So I have a perl script that runs on Windows. It runs on windows because it needs to stuff some user numbers into a spreadsheet via Win32::OLE, let the spreadsheet calculate new values, and then generate some text files. Users run the script from Windows and the script ends up creating a directory and a handful of files in it. Users then go over to the linux side of things, go into this newly created directory and run a bunch of commands there manually. 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. 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 side if possible because that's where my script exists, then it would be transparent to the users that extra stuff is being done. And I need this working before 5 pm or I'm sunk. Greg _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
