I made a subdirectory called "everyone", "/home/everyone". I want to use this folder for sharing files from my windows clients as well as myself. I used chgrp to make the folders owner group everyone. I added the users to this group. I changed the group permissions to rwx with chmod. When I reboot, the subdirectory reverts back to r-x. My group members cannot write to the directory. I'm running Mandrake 9.2.
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/groupWhat 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.)
I don't use Konquerer so cannot help with your second problem.
Another problem is when I start Konquerer as a file manager. I enter the root password and tell it to save the password. the next time I start Konquerer I have to enter the root password again. I'm confused, Does anyone have some light to shed on these issues? Thanks in advance.
Dave
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