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.)
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